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The Understudy

by Theresa Rebeck

December 29, 2010 - January 30, 2011

A smash hit Off-Broadway earlier this year, The Understudy is the latest comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck (Omnium Gatherum, Bad Dates, Mauritius), one of the most produced female playwrights in America. When a Hollywood action star lands a prestigious role in Franz Kafka’s newly discovered play on Broadway, things couldn’t be better…until he meets his understudy. Hailed by The Wall Street Journal as, “a masterpiece of comic clockwork, raucously funny,” this hilarious play brings the backstage friction of a frenzied rehearsal center stage with vivacious satire and Kafkaesque theatrics.

In the Next Room, or the vibrator play

by Sarah Ruhl

March 2 - April 3, 2011

Pulitzer Prize nominee Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House, Eurydice) returns to the Wilma with her latest play that The New Yorker called, “her best to date!” It’s the dawn of electricity. Dr. Givings begins harnessing the newfound power to treat hysterical patients at his home with an experimental electric apparatus. But as the peculiar buzzing sounds from his office grow louder, Mrs. Givings’ curiosity gets the best of her exposing cracks in the very foundation of their marriage. Boldly exploring American sexuality and intimacy in the 1880s, In the Next Room dares to push the envelope combining historical facts with deep emotion and surprising humor.

My Wonderful Day

by Alan Ayckbourn

May 18 - June 19, 2011

My Wonderful Day is the most recent work by Tony® winner Alan Ayckbourn, who has written over 70 plays in the past 50 years including such comic gems as The Norman Conquests and Absurd Person Singular. In this play, Laverne, an Afro-Caribbean cleaning woman, brings Winnie, her 9-year-old daughter, to the house of her wealthy clients in London. What ensues is a wickedly funny and bold comic dissection of a marriage that serves as Winnie’s topsy-turvy initiation into Life. The play received glowing reviews in both London and New York last year, and The Wall Street Journal hailed it as, "one of the strongest productions I've seen on or Off-Broadway in recent seasons; if you miss it, you'll regret it – a lot!”