A one-night-only exclusive Vineyard Theatre event!

Meet playwright Adam Rapp and be among the very few
to see a Lab Production of his new play The Metal Children. 

With a $50 gift, you too can enjoy the centerpiece of The Vineyard’s play development activities by sponsoring our Lab Production, which is otherwise open to Vineyard Theatre members only.  Attend the June 26 performance of our latest work-in-progress, Adam Rapp’s The Metal Children and enjoy a pre-show cocktail party with fellow Lab Sponsors and the playwright.   

THE METAL CHILDREN
written and directed by ADAM RAPP
with Betsy Aidem, Connor Barrett, Kerry Bishe, Guy Boyd, 
Mia Dillon, David Greenspan, Halley Wegryn Gross, 
Michael Shannon, Katherine Waterston

Thursday, June 26, 2008
Cocktails in Vineyard Theatre lobby at 7pm, Performance at 8pm

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. 

Ticket availability is extremely limited for this event.
TO BECOME A SPONSOR CALL 212-353-0303

What is a Lab Production?

The Vineyard launched its Lab Program in order to provide artists with a safe and creative way to develop and complete new works of theatre.

Labs are small-scale productions that rehearse for three weeks and perform for a limited run that is closed to the press and open to The Vineyard's members and supporters only. The focus of a Lab Production is on the storytelling: production values are kept simple and actors often hold scripts to enable playwrights and directors to work and revise throughout the run. Thus Lab Productions aim to provide artists with the best of both worlds — to free them from the commercial and critical pressures of opening a show in New York, while enabling them to see their work fully staged for a smart, informed New York audience. We think it's the best possible tool we can give artists to see bold new works to fruition. 

Past Vineyard Lab Productions that went on to receive their world-premiere productions at The Vineyard include Polly Pen's Bed & Sofa and Tina Landau and Ricky Ian Gordon's Dream True, and Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls.  Last season we presented a Lab Production of Nicky Silver's The Agony and the Agony starring Tony Award winner Victoria Clark, Xanadu’s Cheyenne Jackson and the playwright himself in his stage debut!