The Public Theater’s world premiere production of Richard Foreman’s Idiot Savant, starring two-time Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe, has extended for an extra week, through December 20. The avant-garde production, directed by the playwright and presented in association with his Ontological-Hysteric Theater, began performances on October 27 and had been scheduled to close on December 13.

In addition ...

The Public Theater’s 2009-2010 season will include a production of Othello starring John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman, Willem Dafoe starring in Richard Foreman’s Idiot Savant, and new works by Suzan-Lori Parks, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Mike Daisey. Details of the lineup are as follows:

Othello, by William Shakespeare, directed by Peter Sellars
September 12-October 4 at NYU ...