Cromer Will Direct Picnic on Broadway in 2010
By Kenneth Jones
22 Oct 2009
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Writers Theatres' Picnic featured Bridgette Pechman, Hillary Clemens and Natasha Lowe
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| 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.
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The cast of David Cromer's staging of Picnic at Writers Theatre.
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| photo by Janna Giacoppo |
