The company's artistic director John Pietrowski directs a cast that includes Beth Glover, Jim Ligon, Anne Petersen, Anne Popolizio and Jake Speck.

"Preparing for a difficult reunion, Lulu Bender has just checked into a run down motel," according to Playwrights Theatre notes. "There, her mind traverses between the present and a difficult past. Can Lulu face and forgive her mother who ran out on the family years before?"

"While the travails of a dysfunctional family may not seem to be the place to mine for humor, Dolores [Gregory] finds a way to make us laugh, yet still feel the pain and loss experienced by children subjected to difficult family situations," Pietrowski said in production notes.

Opening is set for Feb. 3.

Gregory's play The Good Daughter was developed at Playwrights Theatre and was produced at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch October 2003. Her short play, Why We Invented God, was the 2004 winner of the George R. Kernodle One-Act Playwriting Competition and a finalist for the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville. She also penned Radium Girls and The Good Daughter. The creative team of The Good Girl Is Gone includes Bettina Bierly (costumes), Richard Turick (set), Richard Currie (lighting), Jeff Knapp (sound), Danielle Constance (properties).

For more information, call (973) 514-1787 ext. 30 or visit www.ptnj.org.

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Playwrights Theatre is a not-for-profit professional Equity theatre and a community of professional playwrights, theatre artists, and arts educators "that provides opportunities for writers to develop their works in a nurturing environment and connect with new audiences."

The 2005-06 Main Stage season opened in October with Guillermo Reyes' Sunrise at Monticello and concludes with Russell Davis' Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven (April 20-May 7).