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By Robert Penn Warren
Adapted by Adrian Hall
Since our American Cycle launched in 2004, INTIMAN audiences have been drawn into the worlds of Wilder’s Our Town, Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, Wright’s Native Son and, this year, Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird—four sweeping, classic, deeply felt stories about who we were, who we are, and who we might become as Americans. Next season, in the presidential election year, we will close the Cycle with a towering adaptation of Robert Penn Warren’s “definitive novel about American politics” (New York Times), tracing the rise and fall of Willie Stark, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey Long of Louisiana.
Dramatized by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Anne Frank’s diary is one of the most haunting stories we have in our shared human experience. A testament to the human spirit, it illuminates Anne Frank’s enduring belief in hope and love during one of the darkest moments in history. Through her voice, we encounter a timeless, moving and luminous legacy of courage.
By Douglas Carter Beane
One of the biggest hits of the New York theatre season last year, Douglas Carter Beane’s Tony-nominated play is a witty, zinger-filled comedy. The play’s center is that loveable monster, a Hollywood agent, whose star client has a secret that would—if it comes out—send the tabloids into a frenzy. Writing in Variety, Liz Smith (the doyenne of gossip columnists) wrote, “if you like to laugh, if you like outrageous satire, if you love incredible performers and a brilliantly paced show…don’t miss The Little Dog Laughed.”
Written and Performed by Andrew Weems
Andrew Weems grew up in Africa and South Asia, enthralled by the storytelling traditions around him and absorbing all the influences of a childhood spent in Korea, Zambia, India and Nepal. Today, he is an award-winning actor whose credits include Three Sisters and Arms and the Man at INTIMAN, Bart’s RSC production of Cymbeline and Inherit the Wind on Broadway. In our tradition of bringing our audiences unique and beautiful personal stories, we will premiere his one-man play about being an artist, the journey from where he began—and what it means to go home. INTIMAN is honored to support this work through the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowships, funded by the William & Eva Fox Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group.
By Tennessee Williams
Few plays have the explosive power of A Streetcar Named Desire, considered by many to be the greatest American play ever written. Tennessee Williams won the Pulitzer Prize and other major theatre honors for his New Orleans-set masterpiece about Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski and the epic, sexually charged battle between “tender feelings” and “brutal desire” that enflames them both.
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