Revival of Wallace Shawn's The Fever Starts Perfs Off-B'way on 1/9

Next up in The New Group's season will be The Fever, written and performed by Wallace Shawn. The limited off-Broadway engagement will run from January 9 to March 3 at Theatre Row's Acorn Theatre and will be directed by New Group's artistic director, Scott Elliott. Opening night is January 24.

In Shawn's play, which was first produced at the Public Theater in 1991, an anonymous narrator wakes up in a war-torn country with a terrible fever, unable to reconcile the privilege he has enjoyed with his current surroundings. The Fever examines the links between the affluence many Americans take for granted and the horrors of poverty and suffering that haunt the lives of millions.

Shawn's writing credits include last season's The Music Teacher at off-Broadway's Minetta Lane, the translation of The Threepenny Opera for the recent revival at The Roundabout Theatre Company, Aunt Dan and Lemon and The Designated Mourner. A veteran of numerous TV and film roles, he most recently acted onstage under Elliott's direction in Hurlyburly, also with The New Group.

The New Group is currently represented on the boards by The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which stars Cynthia Nixon and runs through December 9 at the Acorn before making way for The Fever. Later this season, the theater company will present The Accomplices by Bernard Weinraub. Casting and performance dates are forthcoming.