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The New Group is the winner of the 2010/11 Drama Desk Special Award "for presenting contemporary new voices, and for uncompromisingly raw and powerful productions"

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Past shows include:

By Wallace Shawn

By Tommy Nohilly

Book by Michael Zam
Lyrics by Jack Lechner
Music by Andy Monroe

By Sam Shepard

By Kenneth Lonergan

By Jonathan Marc Sherman

By Jay Presson Allen

By Mike Leigh

By David Rabe

By Wallace Shawn

Music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
Book by Jeff Whitty

By Kenneth Lonergan

Entire Production History can be found at TheNewGroup.org

The New Group, led by founding Artistic Director Scott Elliott and Executive Director Geoff Rich, is an award-winning, artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. While constantly evolving, we strive to maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional immediacy in our acting and productions. In this way, we seek a theater that is adventurous, stimulating and most importantly "now" — a true forum for the present culture.

Founded in 1995, The New Group was born of Artistic Director Scott Elliott's desire to develop a place for artists to experiment, take risks, and learn from each other without the pressures of commercial theater. Notable productions include Ecstasy, This is Our Youth, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Hurlyburly, Abigail's Party, Rafta, Rafta..., The Starry Messenger, A Lie of the Mind, Blood From a Stone, and Marie and Bruce. In fifteen years, we have received over ninety awards and nominations for excellence. The New Group's first musical, Avenue Q, won three Tony Awards. Most recently, The Kid received the Outer Critics Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical, and The New Group and Scott Elliott were honored with a 2010-2011 Drama Desk Special Award "for presenting contemporary new voices, and for uncompromisingly raw and powerful productions."

In addition, our NewGroup/NewWorks play development program works intensively with emerging playwrights, presenting a free monthly reading series and up to three workshops annually. The New Group is also committed to community outreach, and 2011-2012 will be the seventh season that we offer Life Stories, a free theater education program for exceptionally talented New York City public high school students to learn acting and playwriting in a professional environment.

Photos: Monique Carboni

Photo: Serge Nivelle

Russian Transport by Erika Sheffer directed by Scott Elliott

Set in the Russian-Jewish enclave of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Russian Transport is a deeply personal, emotionally charged tale of an immigrant couple, their two assimilated teenagers, and the fierce and fiery upheaval they experience when sexy, mysterious Uncle Boris from the old country comes to stay with them for his shot at the American dream. Part family drama, part heart-pounding thriller, this stunning debut from Erika Sheffer beautifully captures the complex and conflicting layers of striving, joy, pain and terror of one very particular immigrant experience.

While I began working on this play as a way to explore the struggles my family faced in coming to a new country, I was also fascinated by what living under a brutal dictatorship does to one's sense of morality. I think that compassion binds us, and that we have a responsibility to be kind to one another and particularly to those of us in great need."

— Erika Sheffer

Photo: Serge Nivelle

Burning is the Off-Broadway debut of downtown phenomenon and Guggenheim Award-winner Thomas Bradshaw. In intersecting stories spanning two eras, a contemporary Black painter who hides his race goes to Germany for a show, only to find that the gallery has misinterpreted his work. And in the 1980s, a homeless teenager comes to New York to become an actor and is taken in by two gay men, who are themselves producing a new play. Titillating, taboo-testing and psychosexually insightful, this epic tale of ambition and self-invention bursts open the conceits of the worlds of art and theatre.

Burning is a meditation on death and its effects on the living, the nature of identity and how we come to define ourselves, and the vulnerability that is an essential component of being human."

— Thomas Bradshaw

Photo: Serge Nivelle

From one of the most influential playwrights of our time, a world premiere set at the tipping point of the early 1960s. In a Midwestern town, Danny Mueller's world is defined by friendship and loyalty. But the bigger world is encroaching, in the form of Karen, back from college in the east, alluring and unsettling because of what she now knows. Still, Danny can't escape the grip of his immigrant father, who is mourning a vanished world of lost prestige and clinging to his only son. An Early History of Fire marks David Rabe's return to The New Group, following our acclaimed revival of Hurlyburly.

What I remember from that time is longing and confusion, hearts pounding, time ticking away, the desire to change and yet remain the same—to change without losing what was essential, to find a way to be in the larger world, but to not betray, not abandon the bonds that had carried me to that point. To fall in love, to have a destiny and know what it was.

— David Rabe

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