SoHo Rep Announces Its 2013-2014 Season
SOHO REP 2013-14 SEASON TO INCLUDE NEW YORK PREMIERE OF DAVID ADJMI’S “MARIE ANTOINETTE” AND WORLD PREMIERE OF BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS’ “AN OCTOROON”
Perhaps the defining characteristic of Soho Rep, under the artistic direction of Sarah Benson, is the institution’s commitment to artists creating surprisingly big theatrical events in its very small space on Walker Street. Soho Rep’s 2013-14 season, announced today, provides ample evidence of that commitment, comprising two shows that are among the biggest the organization has ever produced: the New York premiere of David Adjmi’s “Marie Antoinette”, directed by Rebecca Taichman and featuring Marin Ireland (Blasted); and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ “An Octoroon,” directed by Benson.
Benson remarked, “One of the joys of being Artistic Director at Soho Rep is getting to marvel at the brilliant artists who do the impossible here every year. I’m consistently astonished by the incredible worlds each team creates in our little room, on a modest budget and with vast imagination. This season epitomizes that experience.”
Both productions feature enormous casts and challenge actors to take epic journeys; both transport audiences across multiple centuries; and both are wildly inventive with theatrical form. Both also transform stories about (in)famous historical characters into plays about us—here and now.
The season is also a testament to Soho Rep’s Writer/ Director Lab, currently helmed by co-chairs Jenny Schwartz and Ken Rus Schmoll. Adjmi and Jacobs-Jenkins are both alumni of the Lab, and it is where Adjmi wrote the first draft of Marie Antoinette. Furthermore, the upcoming season will include Write with Us, a new series of free workshops led by distinguished Lab alumni.
Soho Rep will hold its annual spring gala on March 31, 2014 honoring Board Chair Jon Dembrow. Participants and performers will be announced at a later date.
Tickets to Marie Antoinette, $35-$50, are on sale now at sohorep.org and 212.352.3101. $0.99 Sunday tickets will be offered for performances on October 13 and 27 and are not available online or in advance. Soho Rep is located at 46 Walker Street in Manhattan.
Soho Rep’s 2013-14 season is produced in in association with John Adrian Selzer.
SOHO REP 2013-14 PROGRAMMING
Soho Rep, with John Adrian Selzer, presents “Marie Antoinette” (New York Premiere) by David Adjmi
Directed by Rebecca Taichman
October 9 – November 3
Opening: October 20
Performance Schedule: Tues—Sun at 7:30p, Saturday at 3p
In association with American Repertory Theater and Yale Repertory Theatre
“Write With Us”
A weeklong festival of free writing workshops
with Soho Rep. Writer/ Director Lab alumni
February 18 – 22, 2014
Soho Rep, which has invited audiences to its hyper-intimate Walker Street space to experience the work of exciting contemporary theater artists at close range, deepens the welcome with Write With Us, in which such some of these luminaries will give free writing workshops open to the public. Instructors will include Lab Co-Chair Jenny Schwartz, plus Eisa Davis, Dan Le Franc, Anne Washburn (teaching a Saturday morning class for elementary school students) and more. Reservations will be possible in January at sohorep.org.
Soho Rep, In association with John Adrian Selzer, presents “An Octoroon” (World Premiere)
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Sarah Benson
April – May, 2014
About Soho Rep
Founded in 1975, and in its theater on Walker Street since 1991, Soho Rep has built an outstanding reputation for being at the forefront of new and innovative theatre, serving as a vital center for contemporary theatre artists.
Soho Rep is dedicated to cultivating and producing visionary, uncompromising, and exuberant new plays. They perform to one of the youngest adult audiences in New York City, with over half aged 18-40.
Critics continue to herald Soho Rep as a go-to theatre destination for new and original works. New York Magazine has said, “this indispensable theater offers more excitement per chair than any space in town,” Time Out New York says, “Soho Rep is the best theater in NYC (official),” Variety exclaims, “[Soho Rep] has claimed an increasingly vital spot...the venue has suddenly become one to watch for Manhattan theatergoers starved for new work,” and The New York Times declares Soho Rep to be “The downtown powerhouse...regularly outclasses the work done on many of the city’s larger stages.”
Over the last decade, Soho Rep productions have garnered 15 OBIE Awards; nine Drama Desk nominations, two Kesselring Awards, The New York Times Outstanding Playwriting Award for Dan LeFranc’s Sixty Miles To Silverlake and, a special citation in The New York Drama Critics’ Circle’s 2012-13 awards. In recent years, Soho Rep has presented plays by established and emerging theatre artists such as Annie Baker, Lucas Hnath, Sarah Kane, Daniel Alexander Jones, Debbie Tucker Green, Mac Wellman, Young Jean Lee, Nature Theater of Oklahoma and Jackie Sibblies Drury.
Funding Credits
Soho Rep.’s 2013-14 season is made possible with major support from John Adrian Selzer, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Barry Feirstein, the Jerome Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York State Council on the Arts, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.
For further information about Soho Rep, its 2012-14 Season, schedule and ticket information, please visit www.sohorep.org
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