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Blue Door is a tour-de-force for two actors, a vivid, exuberantly theatrical play about the black American male experience." Tanya Barfield's plays have been presented in festivals at Arena Stage, The Royal Court, New York Theatre Workshop, Seattle Rep, Hartford Stage, The Guthrie Lab and New York Stage & Film.

These works include Dent, The Quick, 121° West, Pecan Tan and The Houdini Act, as well as the book for a children's musical, Kofi's Civil War.

Prior to becoming a playwright, she was a solo performer, appearing in her one-woman show Without Skin or Breathlessness.

Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, New York premiere of a new musical with book and lyrics by David Cale, music by Jonathan Kreisberg and David Cale.

Director and cast to be announced.

Previews begin November 2006 at PH's Mainstage Theater.

"Burnt out, living out of his Studebaker, former country-western star Floyd Duffner's best days seem to be behind him.

But when a 20 year-old feral beauty with an electrifying voice enters the picture, an unlikely friendship and musical partnership begins to blossom.

A freewheeling musical journey from Montana to Austin (with a side trip to Hollywood), Floyd and Clea is a tale of sweet heartbreak, a parable about finding the strength, against all odds, to keep on keepin' on." David Cale (book, music and lyrics) is returning to Playwrights Horizons for the first time since the production of his play Lillian.

He has written and performed six ...

Written for two actors, Blue Door is a highly theatrical play about the black American male experience.

Story continues below The musical Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky is the next show booked for the mainstage space, starting performances in November.

With a book and lyrics by David Cale and music by Cale and Jonathan Kreisberg, the show concerns a former country-western star named Floyd Duffner and a 20-year-old beauty who enters his life.

A freewheeling musical journey from Montana to Austin (with a side trip to Hollywood), Floyd and Clea is a tale of sweet heartbreak, a parable about finding the strength, against all odds, to keep on keepin' on.

Frank's Home, set to start on the mainstage in January 2007, is Richard Nelson's latest, concerning famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Set in the summer of 1923, Frank's Home follows Wright as he heads to California to mend broken relationships with his adult children.

Frank's Home is about a man who created a new architectural vocabulary, but couldn't create a home for himself and his family.

Tony Award winner Robert Falls directs.

Playwright A.R.

Gurney returns to Playwrights for the world premiere of Crazy Mary in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater in May 2007, directed by Jim Simpson.

In an attempt to account for the family inheritance, the scion of a wealthy Buffalo, NY clan and her willful, college-aged son visit their long lost cousin Mary.

The catch: Mary is living in an asylum, and has barely spok...

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