The New Group Receives 3 Drama Desk Nominations!

Congrats to Claybourne Elder (Outstanding Actor in a Play - ONE ARM), David Lander (Outstanding Lighting Design - ONE ARM), and Morgan Spector (Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play - RUSSIAN TRANSPORT) on their 2012 Drama Desk nominations!

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Congratulations to Erika Sheffer on her 2012 Outer Critics Circle nomination for the John Gassner Award for Russian Transport!

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In the News: David Rabe's An Early History of Fire

David Rabe Tries Catching 'Fire' Off-Broadway

by Kathy Shwiff

"David Rabe is rewriting during rehearsals for his new play, An Early History of Fire, which opens off-Broadway on April 30.

This is the first time he has done that in his 40-year career, he said, adding that 'the whole soul of the play started to transform during rehearsals.'

Rabe, who won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1972 for Sticks and Bones, discussed his work as actors read bits of it aloud Sunday afternoon in the theater where An Early History of Fire is in previews.

Among the actors were Rabe’s daughter, Lily, who is appearing on Broadway in the play Seminar; Judith Ivey, who won a Tony Award for her role in Rabe’s play Hurlyburly in 1985; and Bobby Cannavale (Nurse Jackie), who appeared in the off-Broadway revival of Hurlyburly in 2005."

Click here to read the full Wall Street Journal article.

Last Show of the Season Starts Tonight

Previews begin TONIGHT at 8pm

A WORLD PREMIERE FROM THE TONY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF HURLYBURLY

An Early History of Fire is set at the tipping point of the early 1960s. In a Midwestern town, Danny's days are defined by friendship and loyalty - but the bigger world encroaches in the form of Karen, back from college in the east, alluring and unsettling because of all she has learned. Awhirl in longing and eyeing a chance for radical change, Danny struggles against the grip of his immigrant father, who mourns a vanished world of lost prestige while clinging to his only son. This world premiere marks David Rabe's return to The New Group, following the company's acclaimed 2005 revival of Hurlyburly.

Limited Engagement to May 26th

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