The Butterfly Collection
- Written by Theresa Rebeck
- Directed by Bartlett Sher
Broadway: Mauritius. Off-Broadway: The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, Spike Heels, View of the Dome, Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, Omnium Gatherum (co-written, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003). Her novel Three Girls and Their Brother was named one of Booklist’s 10 Best First Novels of 2008 and was recently released in paperback. Awards include the IRNE and Elliot Norton Award (Mauritius) as well as Edgar, Peabody and WGA awards for episodic drama, all for her work on “NYPD Blue.” (As of May 2009)
Directed PRAYER FOR MY ENEMY in its world premiere for Seattle’s Intiman Theatre, where he is Artistic Director, and Long Wharf Theatre. He received the 2008 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his direction of SOUTH PACIFIC at Lincoln Center Theater, where he is Resident Director. He was nominated for Tony Awards for his previous LCT productions, AWAKE AND SING! by Clifford Odets and THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA by Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel. Other Intiman credits include plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Wilder, Goldoni and Tony Kushner. Opera credits include ROMEO ET JULIETTE (Salzburg Festival) and THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Metropolitan Opera). New York credits include CYMBELINE (2001 Callaway Award for Best Director; first American Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company) and WASTE (both Theatre for a New Audience) and THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTION (Playwrights Horizons). Upcoming: OTHELLO for Intiman and THE TALES OF HOFFMANN for the Metropolitan Opera. (As of November 2008)
When a spirited young writer's assistant invades a New England family, long-seeded tensions are dragged out into the open. Over the course of three tumultuous weeks, fathers, sons, lovers, and spouses square off in a ferocious battle of wits and wills that may claim them—or restore a tenuous happiness.
Featuring
Betsy Aidem
Reed Birney
James Colby
Maggie Lacey
Brian Murray
Marian Seldes
Has appeared at Playwrights Horizons eight times, most recently in Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation directed by Sam Gold. He was just in Tigers Be Still at Roundabout Underground. For the NewYork premiere of Sarah Kane’s Blasted at Soho Rep, he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He was Dr. Sweet in the original New York cast of Bug and played Tony Blair in Stuff Happens at The Public Theater. He has received three Obie Awards and a Drama Desk Award. On film, he can be seen in Changeling and the current Morning Glory with Harrison Ford, as well as Jeff Lipsky’s Twelve Thirty. In February he will be in David West Read’s The Dream of the Burning Boy at Roundabout Underground. (As of December 2010)
Broadway: Mary Stuart, The Rivals, The Crucible (Tony nom.), Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night, The Little Foxes (Tony nom.), Racing Demon, Noises Off, Black Comedy, Sleuth, King Lear, Da, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tony nom.), All in Good Time. Playwrights Horizons: The Butterfly Collection; Mud, River, Stone. Other Off-Broadway: Candida, Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Beckett/Albee, Scattergood, The Play About the Baby (Obie), Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Entertainer, Travels with My Aunt, Ashes (Obie), Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Gaslight, Entertaining Mr. Sloan. Regional: Me, Myself & I; Seagull in the Hamptons; The Tempest. Film/TV: Bob Roberts, Treasure Planet, upcoming Dream House (dir. Jim Sheridan), “Hamlet,” “Twelfth Night.” 1998 Obie for Sustained Excellence, 1998 Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work. (As of August 2010)
Creative Team
Andrew Jackness
Scenic DesignerAnn Hould-Ward
Costume DesignerChistopher Akerlind
Lighting DesignerKurt B. Kellenberger
Sound DesignerRoy Harris
Production Stage Manager
Photos of (1) Marian Seldes and Brian Murray; and (2) James Colby and Maggie Lacey by Joan Marcus.