LINCOLN CENTER THEATER, now celebrating its 26th year, is one of New York’s favorite not-for-profit theaters, with productions at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi E. Newhouse Theaters and other theaters on and off Broadway, as well as touring productions nationally and around the world, TV and film projects and original cast recordings. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is LCT’s 136th production.
LCT’s production history includes a number of memorable New York, U.S. and world premieres, including In the Next Room or the vibrator play and The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl; The New Century by Paul Rudnick; Dying City by Christopher Shinn; The Coast of Utopia, The Invention of Love, Arcadia and Hapgood by Tom Stoppard; The Light in the Piazza by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel; Bernarda Alba and Marie Christine by Michael John LaChiusa; Third, An American Daughter and The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein; The Frogs by Burt Shevelove, Nathan Lane and Stephen Sondheim; A Bad Friend by Jules Feiffer; A Man of No Importance by Terrence McNally, Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens; Ten Unknowns by Jon Robin Baitz; Contact by Susan Stroman and John Weidman; Via Dolorosa by David Hare; Parade by Alfred Uhry, Jason Robert Brown and Harold Prince; A New Brain by William Finn and James Lapine; Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare; Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet; and Sarafina! by Mbongeni Ngema. LCT’s noteworthy revivals include Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel and South Pacific; August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing!; Edward Albee’s Seascape and A Delicate Balance; Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, King Lear, Henry IV and Twelfth Night; Dinner at Eight by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber; Paul Osborn’s Morning’s at Seven; The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz; Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Robert E. Sherwood; Our Town by Thornton Wilder; Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett; Anything Goes by Cole Porter; The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; and The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare.
In addition to its full-scale productions, Lincoln Center Theater also develops new work and encourages emerging artists through play readings, workshops and an annual Directors Lab. Open Stages, LCT’s education program, reaches thousands of New York City public school students with curriculum-related projects, tickets to LCT productions and a Shakespeare collaboration with the Juilliard School. The theater also regularly presents “platforms,” where the public can meet LCT artists, and publishes the Lincoln Center Theater Review, which explores subjects related to LCT’s productions.
In the fall of 2008 LCT began a new programming initiative, LCT3, devoted to producing the work of new playwrights, directors and designers. LCT has just begun construction of a new theater, rehearsal and office space complex on the roof of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. The 131-seat theater, to be named the Claire Tow Theater, is scheduled to open in 2012 and will be the home of LCT3. Visit us online at www.LCT.org.
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