The Language Archive and Tigers Be Still Set for Fall 2010 at Roundabout

Roundabout Theatre Company will present off-Broadway productions of Julia Cho’s award-winning The Language Archive and Kimberly Rosenstock’s Tigers Be Still in fall 2010. The Cho play will be mounted at the Laura Pels Theatre, directed by Mark Brokaw. Rosenstock’s play will be presented at the Roundabout Underground black box theater, directed by Sam Gold. Casting and exact dates have not been announced.

The Language Archive is described as a poignant and quirky comedy that seems to prove love is the one language that can leave us all at a loss for words. George is a man consumed with preserving and documenting the dying languages of far-flung cultures. Closer to home, language is failing him. He doesn’t know what to say to his wife, Mary, to keep her from leaving him, and he doesn’t recognize the deep feelings that his lab assistant, Emma, has for him.

Roundabout commissioned The Language Archive, which has already won the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize awarded to an outstanding new English-language play by a woman. At Cho’s request, the play is being presented first at South Coast Rep in Costa Mesa, California, in a production that will run March 26-April 25, 2010, directed by Brokaw. Cho’s many plays include The Piano Teacher, Durango and BFE.

Tigers Be Still is a comedy that centers on Sherry Wickman, a young woman who expects the perfect career and life to fall into place immediately upon earning her masters degree in art therapy. Instead, Sherry finds herself unemployed and back at home hiding out in her twin-sized childhood bed. When Sherry gets hired as a substitute art teacher, things begin to brighten up. Now if only her mother would come downstairs, her sister would get off the couch, her first therapy patient would do his take-home assignments, her new boss would leave his gun at home and someone would catch the tiger that escaped from the local zoo.

Long Island native Rosenstock is currently earning her M.F.A. in playwriting under the mentorship of Paula Vogel at the Yale School of Drama.