Gruesome Playground Injuries, Charting Lives of Childhood Friends, Begins Jan. 5 | Playbill

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News Gruesome Playground Injuries, Charting Lives of Childhood Friends, Begins Jan. 5 The New York premiere of Rajiv Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries, featuring Jennifer Carpenter of TV's "Dexter" and Pablo Schreiber, a Tony Award nominee for Awake and Sing!, begins at Second Stage Theatre Jan. 5.

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Pablo Schreiber and Jennifer Carpenter

This is a busy New York theatre season for Joseph: His Pulitzer Prize-finalist play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, starring Robin Williams, begins Broadway performances on March 11. Off-Broadway's Second Stage previously premiered his plays All This Intimacy and Animals Out of Paper as part of the company's Uptown Series.

Directed by Tony nominee Scott Ellis, Gruesome Playground Injuries officially opens Jan. 31.

"The dark romantic saga," according to Second Stage, "explores the cost of wounded friendships. Over the course of 30 years, the lives of Kayleen and Doug intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together."

Carpenter is best known for her performance as Debra Morgan, Dexter's ambitious sister, in the acclaimed Showtime series "Dexter." She last appeared on the New York stage as Mary Warren in the Broadway production of The Crucible opposite Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.

Schreiber received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in Awake and Sing! by Lincoln Center Theater. His many other theatre credits include Desire Under the Elms, Reasons to be Pretty (Drama Desk Award), Dying City, Mr. Marmalade, Manuscript, Sin: A Cardinal Deposed, Blood Orange and Julius Caesar at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Ellis directed Douglas Carter Beane's Mr. & Mrs. Fitch for Second Stage last season. Other Second Stage credits include Good Boys and True, The Little Dog Laughed, The Waverly Gallery and That Championship Season. Broadway credits include Curtains, Twelve Angry Men (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Boys From Syracuse, The Rainmaker, 1776 (Drama Desk, Tony nomination), Picnic (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Company, A Month in the Country, Steel Pier (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle awards, Tony nomination), She Loves Me (Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations, Outer Critics Circle Award and Olivier Award for Best Director and Best Revival, London production) and more.

Gruesome Playground Injuries has scenic design by Neil Patel; costume design by Jeff Mahshie; and sound design by Ryan Rumery.

Second Stage Theatre's Off-Broadway home is at 305 W. 43rd Street. For subscription or ticket information, call the Second Stage box office at (212) 246-4422 or visit www.2ST.com.

 
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