In the 2008-2009 Season:

By TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY
Directed by TINA LANDAU

This fierce and intoxicating story tells of competing "houses" of drag queens and the loves, 
loyalties and dreams within each that draw their members together and apart. Wig Out! 
reunites The Vineyard with director Tina Landau, who most recently staged our acclaimed 
production of J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose. Of McCraney, the extraordinary new playwright 
whose play The Brothers Size opened at The Public to some of the best reviews last 
season, the NY Times raves: “that thrilling sound is one of the main reasons we 
go to the theatre, the beautiful music of a new voice.” FALL 2008

Written by Steven Cosson and Jim Lewis
Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman
From interviews by Emily Ackerman, Marsha Stephanie Blake,
Brad Heberlee, Stephen Plunkett, Alison Weller, and the authors.
Directed by Steven CossoN
Co-produced with Center Theatre Group

This Beautiful City is a provocative new play with music about the growth of the 
evangelical movement in Colorado Springs, created by the documentary theatre troupe 
The Civilians. While conducting interviews with people involved with or affected by the 
mega-church movement, scandal broke about New Life Church pastor Ted Haggard and 
shook the entire city. This Beautiful City is a fascinating and timely look at faith and how 
it affects an American landscape. The Civilians’ work has been called "superb" by the NY 
Times and "clear evidence of evolution in the world of modern theatre", by Time Out 
New York. WINTER 2009

Vineyard Theatre Labs are small scale productions of some of the most exciting and in demand new playwrights in New York – and performances are only open to members.

THE BURNT PART BOYS

Book by MARIANA ELDER
Music by CHRIS MILLER
Lyrics by NATHAN TYSEN

This gripping new musical drama is an unforgettable coming of age story that follows a group of teenagers in 1962 on life-transforming odyssey/adventure, deep in West Virginia 's coal country.  The Burnt Part Boys' gifted young creative team have created "a rich theatrical experience" – (Variety), that "gives hope that the American musical theatre is not dead yet" (Associated Press). SPRING 2009

Plus, one main stage show to be announced.

__________________________________________________________________________________

Past productions in the 2007-2008 Season:

    By JULIA CHO
    Directed by KATE WHORISKEY

Mrs. K. lives in a twilight world where she serves cookies and enjoys sweet memories of students past. But a tugging darkness permeates just beyond her memory and the ghosts who haunt this lonely woman stand on the brink of making their way to light. A stunning and haunting new drama, from the author of DURANGO. Fall 2007.

Playwright Julia Cho writes with "insight, sensitivity and humor.” – The New York Times

     

    Libretto and drawings by BEN KATCHOR
    Songs by MARK MULCAHY
    Choreography by JOHN CARRAFA
     Directed by BOB MCGRATH

Enter the imagination of acclaimed cartoonist Ben Katchor in this delightfully offbeat new musical. Set against an animated landscape,  THE SLUG BEARERS OF KAYROL ISLAND weaves together the lives of eight unlikely individuals in their journey from a New York penthouse to a tropical island of exploited factory workers. Featuring a striking indie-rock score by composer Mark Mulcahy, SLUG BEARERS is a darkly funny, politically sharp, and wildly original music-theatre event. WINTER/SPRING 2008

"Wondrous! 'Slug Bearers' doesn't miss a beat as it takes on political commentary that's as deft as it is nonjudgmental, silly as it is serious." - Village Voice

      By JENNY SCHWARTZ
     Directed by ANNE KAUFFMAN

A young couple struggles with the loss of their child in this compellingly original, deeply 
moving and wildly eccentric new work. Initially developed at The Vineyard and first seen 
at New Georges, God’s Ear was hailed by Time Out NY as, "A remarkable event. A rare 
piece of total theatre" and The NY Times as "Virtuosic. A formally inventive and superbly 
performed drama."  April/May 2008. 

    THE METAL CHILDREN 

By ADAM RAPP

Delve into censorship in small-town America when a young-adult book about teenage 
pregnancy ignites heated emotions over abortion, religious beliefs and modern feminism. 
By the author of Red Light Winter, Nocturne and Stone Cold Dead Serious.  June 20-29, 2008