World Premiere of Will Eno's The Open House Begins Performances Off-Broadway

Get ready to have your thoughts provoked. The world premiere of Will Eno’s new off-Broadway play The Open House begins performances February 11 at the Pershing Square Signature Center. Directed by Oliver Butler, the show will run through March 23, with opening night set for March 3 at The Romulus Linney Courtyard.

Ever enigmatic Pulitzer Prize finalist Eno’s new play is described as follows: "Playwrights have been trying to write Family Plays for a long time. And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty and inheritance and responsibility. They try to answer the question, 'Can things really change?' People have been trying nobly for years and years to have plays solve in two hours what hasn't been solved in many lifetimes. This has to stop."

Eno is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, and a Fellow of the Edward F. Albee Foundation. His play The Flu Season premiered at The Gate Theatre in London and then opened in New York where it won the Oppenheimer Award for best debut by an American playwright. His play Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. His other works include Title and Deed, Gnit, Oh, The Humanity and other good intentions, Tragedy: a tragedy and an upcoming Broadway production of his new play The Realistic Joneses starring Michael C. Hall, Toni Collette, Marisa Tomei and Tracy Letts.