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News Tickets on Sale for The Submission With Jonathan Groff and Rutina Wesley Tickets are now on sale for the MCC Theater world premiere of Jeff Talbott's The Submission, starring Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff and Rutina Wesley, which will arrive Off-Broadway in September.

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Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie (Venus in Fur, Chicago) directs the dramatic comedy about a playwright who finally achieves the recognition he's been seeking, but with strings attached. The Submission will now open Sept. 27 after previews that begin Sept. 8 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Performances are scheduled through Oct. 22.

As previously reported, Groff (Spring Awakening, Deathtrap, "Glee") is cast as playwright Danny Larsen, alongside Wesley ("True Blood," The Vertical Hour), Eddie Kaye Thomas (The Diary of Anne Frank, Bachelorette, "American Pie") and Will Rogers (Unnatural Acts, When the Rain Stops Falling).

Check out Playbill.com's video feature with the cast.

 

According to MCC Theater, "Shaleeha G'ntamobi's stirring new play about an alcoholic black mother and her card sharp son trying to get out of the projects has just been accepted into the nation's preeminent theater festival. Trouble is, Shaleeha G'ntamobi doesn't exist, except in the imagination of wannabe-playwright Danny Larsen, who created her as a kind of affirmative-action nom-de-plume. But a nom-de-guerre may prove more useful as the lies pile up, shaky alliances are forged, and everyone dear to Danny must decide whether or not to run for cover as the whole thing threatens to blow up in his lily white face." Talbott, who played David Frost in the U.S. regional premiere of Frost/Nixon and appeared on Broadway in the revival of Sly Fox, was named the recipient of the Laurents-Hatcher Award in February. The honor was endowed by Arthur Laurents and named for Laurents and his late partner Tom Hatcher. Laurents (Gypsy, West Side Story, "The Way We Were") presented Talbott with the prize of $50,000 (plus $100,000 to MCC) earlier this year. Laurents died weeks later at the age of 93.

A working actor and unproduced playwright, Talbott penned For Nate and Molly and Tender, plays seen in the student Yale Cabaret. His recent plays include twelve twenty-five and Elliot Yagovich. He also co-wrote Critical Moment, a two-hander, with 2010 Tony nominee Stephen Kunken. Under the title Festival Play, The Submission was a semi-finalist for the 2010 O'Neill Playwrights Conference.

Visit mcctheater.org. The Lucille Lortel Theatre is located at 121 Christopher Street.

 
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