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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.
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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
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