Cromer Will Direct Picnic on Broadway in 2010

By Kenneth Jones
October 22, 2009

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.