Cromer Will Direct Picnic on Broadway in 2010

By Kenneth Jones
22 Oct 2009

Writers Theatre's Picnic featured Bridgette Pechman, Hillary Clemens and Natasha Lowe
Writers Theatre's Picnic featured Bridgette Pechman, Hillary Clemens and Natasha Lowe
Photo by Janna Giacoppo

A new production of William Inge's Pulitzer Prize-winning Picnic, directed by the acclaimed David Cromer, will open in the 2010-11 Broadway season, producer Darren Bagert announced.

Cromer (Our Town, Adding Machine, The Neil Simon Plays) first directed a production of Picnic in 2008 for the Writers' Theatre in Chicago. Critics embraced it.

Picnic, about passions of Midwesterners aroused went a stranger comes to town over a hot Labor Day holiday, originally opened in 1953, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was later adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture in 1955.

A fall 2010 opening is being eyed, at a theatre to be announced.