Barry Grove will step down as the Executive Producer of Manhattan Theatre Club, a major Broadway and Off Broadway institution, at the conclusion of the 2022-2023 season.
In his 48 years collaborating with Mtc’s founder and Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, Grove has been a driving force in the production of nearly 450 American and world premieres, earning Mtc 28 Tony Awards, 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 50 Drama Desk Awards and numerous Obie, Outer Critics Circle, and other honors.
Among the productions staged by the subscription-based non-profit company in the decades under Grove and Meadow are seminal works by playwrights Alan Ayckbourn; Richard Greenberg, Harvey Fierstein, Paula Vogel, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Charlayne Woodard and Matthew Lopez, to name a few. Pulitzer Prize and Tony winners include Cost of Living by Martyna Majok (Pulitzer); Crimes of the Heart (Pulitzer) by Beth Henley; Doubt by John Patrick Shanley (Pulitzer and Tony); Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony) by Terrence McNally; Rabbit...
In his 48 years collaborating with Mtc’s founder and Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, Grove has been a driving force in the production of nearly 450 American and world premieres, earning Mtc 28 Tony Awards, 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 50 Drama Desk Awards and numerous Obie, Outer Critics Circle, and other honors.
Among the productions staged by the subscription-based non-profit company in the decades under Grove and Meadow are seminal works by playwrights Alan Ayckbourn; Richard Greenberg, Harvey Fierstein, Paula Vogel, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Charlayne Woodard and Matthew Lopez, to name a few. Pulitzer Prize and Tony winners include Cost of Living by Martyna Majok (Pulitzer); Crimes of the Heart (Pulitzer) by Beth Henley; Doubt by John Patrick Shanley (Pulitzer and Tony); Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony) by Terrence McNally; Rabbit...
- 1/11/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Hecht, a 2010 Tony Award nominee, will join the previously announced Laura Linney on Broadway this spring in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere of Summer, 1976, the new play by Pulitzer Prize winning Proof author David Auburn. Daniel Sullivan will direct.
Summer, 1976 will begin previews on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 ahead of a Tuesday, April 25 opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The casting was announced today by Mtc’s Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer).
The play is set during a summer night when an unlikely friendship develops between Diana (Linney), a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice (Hecht), a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.
The production will mark the Broadway returns of five-time Tony nominee...
Summer, 1976 will begin previews on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 ahead of a Tuesday, April 25 opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. The casting was announced today by Mtc’s Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer).
The play is set during a summer night when an unlikely friendship develops between Diana (Linney), a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice (Hecht), a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence.
The production will mark the Broadway returns of five-time Tony nominee...
- 11/17/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Collaboration, Anthony McCarten’s hit London play about artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, will make its American premiere on Broadway this winter, with Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope as the two painters.
The Manhattan Theatre Club production will begin previews at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Tuesday, November 29, with an opening night set for Tuesday, December 20. Kwame Kwei-Armah directs.
The production will be the second Broadway production of Mtc’s 2022-2023 season, following the fall premiere of Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living.
The Collaboration, which made its world premiere in a critically acclaimed production by London’s Young Vic Theatre in January, is set in the summer of 1984, when longtime superstar Warhol and wunderkind Basquiat agreed to work together on what would become one of the most famous exhibitions in the modern art history. As the official synopsis puts it, “But can these two creative giants co-exist,...
The Manhattan Theatre Club production will begin previews at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Tuesday, November 29, with an opening night set for Tuesday, December 20. Kwame Kwei-Armah directs.
The production will be the second Broadway production of Mtc’s 2022-2023 season, following the fall premiere of Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living.
The Collaboration, which made its world premiere in a critically acclaimed production by London’s Young Vic Theatre in January, is set in the summer of 1984, when longtime superstar Warhol and wunderkind Basquiat agreed to work together on what would become one of the most famous exhibitions in the modern art history. As the official synopsis puts it, “But can these two creative giants co-exist,...
- 7/7/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The Broadway premiere of Skeleton Crew, written by Tony Award nominee Dominique Morisseau (Ain’t Too Proud) and directed by Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson (August Wilson’s Jitney) will begin performances on Broadway during the winter of 2022, producer Manhattan Theatre Club announced today.
The production joins Mtc’s previously announced 2021-22 Broadway line-up of Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues (fall 2021) and Paula Vogel’s How I Learned To Drive starring Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse (spring 2022). The Broadway productions will be staged at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Mtc also announced a winter 2022 Off Broadway production of Prayer For The French Republic, a world premiere by Joshua Harmon and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer.
Skeleton Crew is set in 2008 Detroit, where, as described by Mtc, a small automotive factory is on the brink of foreclosure, and a...
The production joins Mtc’s previously announced 2021-22 Broadway line-up of Santiago-Hudson’s Lackawanna Blues (fall 2021) and Paula Vogel’s How I Learned To Drive starring Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse (spring 2022). The Broadway productions will be staged at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Mtc also announced a winter 2022 Off Broadway production of Prayer For The French Republic, a world premiere by Joshua Harmon and directed by Tony Award winner David Cromer.
Skeleton Crew is set in 2008 Detroit, where, as described by Mtc, a small automotive factory is on the brink of foreclosure, and a...
- 1/11/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer Daryl Roth and Cody Lassen in association with Vineyard Theatre have announced the full company for the Broadway premiere of the Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive - written by Paula Vogel, directed by Mark Brokaw. Tony Award nominee Johanna Day, Alyssa May Gold, and Chris Myers join previously announced stars Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse.
- 2/14/2020
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer have just announced the American premiere of the London Theatre Company Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr production of My Name is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, 'Ozark', by Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge, adapted by Rona Munro The James Trilogy, and directed by Richard Eyre The Crucible, Notes on a Scandal as part of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2019-2020 season. The New York production will be produced in association with Penguin Random House Audio.
- 4/29/2019
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Laura Linney will return to Broadway next year in the American premiere of My Name is Lucy Barton, the hit 2018 London Theatre Company production of a solo play based on the novel by Elizabeth Strout, adapted by Rona Munro and directed by Richard Eyre.
The play will debut as part of Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming season, with previews beginning Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. Opening night is Jan. 15.
Linney plays Lucy Barton, “a woman who wakes after an operation to find – much to her surprise – her mother at the foot of her bed,” as described by Mtc. “They haven’t seen each other in years. During their days-long visit, Lucy tries to understand her past, works to come to terms with her family, and begins to find herself as a writer.”
The creative team for My Name is Lucy Barton includes Bob Crowley...
The play will debut as part of Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming season, with previews beginning Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, at Mtc’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. Opening night is Jan. 15.
Linney plays Lucy Barton, “a woman who wakes after an operation to find – much to her surprise – her mother at the foot of her bed,” as described by Mtc. “They haven’t seen each other in years. During their days-long visit, Lucy tries to understand her past, works to come to terms with her family, and begins to find herself as a writer.”
The creative team for My Name is Lucy Barton includes Bob Crowley...
- 4/29/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Off Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club has completed casting for Donald Margulies’ plan Long Lost for production this summer, Hereditary‘s Alex Wolff joining a roster that also includes Kelly AuCoin (Billions), Annie Parisse (Friends from College) and Lee Tergesen (Oz).
Long Lost will reunite playwright Margulies with director Dan Sullivan. The two previously collaborated on Margulies’ The Country House, Brooklyn Boy, the Tony Award-nominated Time Stands Still, the Pulitzer Prize finalist Sight Unseen, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends.
Long Lost begins previews Tuesday, May 14 at Mtc’s New York City Center Stage 1, with an opening night of June 4. The casting was announced today by artistic director Lynne Meadow and executive producer Barry Grove.
Mtc describes Long Lost as “a funny, unsettling, ultimately moving play about the limits of compassion and filial obligation. When troubled Billy appears out-of-the-blue in his estranged brother David’s Wall Street office, he...
Long Lost will reunite playwright Margulies with director Dan Sullivan. The two previously collaborated on Margulies’ The Country House, Brooklyn Boy, the Tony Award-nominated Time Stands Still, the Pulitzer Prize finalist Sight Unseen, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends.
Long Lost begins previews Tuesday, May 14 at Mtc’s New York City Center Stage 1, with an opening night of June 4. The casting was announced today by artistic director Lynne Meadow and executive producer Barry Grove.
Mtc describes Long Lost as “a funny, unsettling, ultimately moving play about the limits of compassion and filial obligation. When troubled Billy appears out-of-the-blue in his estranged brother David’s Wall Street office, he...
- 3/28/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Lynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer have just announced that Olivier Award winners Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller will star in the American premiere of the Almeida Theatre production of Ink. Ink is written by Olivier Award winner James Graham Labour of Love, Privacy, Finding Neverland and will be directed by two-time Olivier Award winner, Tony and BAFTA Award nominee, and Almeida Theatre Artistic Director Rupert Goold King Charles III, Enron on Broadway as part of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2018-2019 season.
- 10/12/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jonny Lee Miller and Bertie Carvel will star in the spring Broadway production of Ink, James Graham’s play about a young Rupert Murdoch and the “rogue editor” he recruits to help vitalize both a newspaper and London’s 1960s press wars.
Miller (CBS’ Elementary and an Olivier Award winner for Frankenstein at London’s National Theatre), will play the Sun editor Larry Lamb, with Carvel reprising his Olivier-winning performance as Murdoch.
Directed by Rupert Goold, Ink begins previews Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. The official opening is Wednesday, April 24.
The production and cast were announced today by Mtc’s artistic director Lynne Meadow and executive producer Barry Grove.
Additional casting and the creative team for the American premiere of London’s Almeida Theatre production will be announced at a later date.
Ink, written by Graham (Finding Neverland) and directed by...
Miller (CBS’ Elementary and an Olivier Award winner for Frankenstein at London’s National Theatre), will play the Sun editor Larry Lamb, with Carvel reprising his Olivier-winning performance as Murdoch.
Directed by Rupert Goold, Ink begins previews Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway. The official opening is Wednesday, April 24.
The production and cast were announced today by Mtc’s artistic director Lynne Meadow and executive producer Barry Grove.
Additional casting and the creative team for the American premiere of London’s Almeida Theatre production will be announced at a later date.
Ink, written by Graham (Finding Neverland) and directed by...
- 10/12/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Lynne Meadow Artistic Director and Barry Grove Executive Producer have just announced the American premiere of the Almeida Theatre production of Ink, written by Olivier Award winner James Graham Labour of Love, Privacy, Finding Neverland and directed by two-time Olivier Award winner, Tony and BAFTA Award nominee, and Almeida Theatre Artistic Director Rupert Goold King Charles III, Enron on Broadway as part of Manhattan Theatre Club's upcoming 2018-2019 season.
- 4/30/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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