Tony & Pulitzer Prize Nominee Sarah Ruhl Tapped for Lincoln Center's 2016-2017 Season; Two New Shows Announced

With Falsettos beginning performances on September 29 at the Walter Kerr Theatre, Lincoln Center's 2016-17 season is already shaping up to be an impactful one. In the Next Room scribe Sarah Ruhl's new play How to Transcend a Happy Marriage has been added to the roster, as has the Lee Sunday Evans-helmed Bull in a China Shop.

Performances of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage will begin on February 23 with an opening night scheduled for March 20 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The Edgerton Foundation New Play Award-winning work takes place at a dinner party in the wilds of New Jersey where two married couples discuss a younger acquaintance: a polyamorous woman who also hunts her own meat. Fascinated, they invite this mysterious woman and her two live-in boyfriends to a New Year’s Eve party, which alters the course of their lives. Rebecca Taichman has been tapped to direct.

Bryna Turner's Bull in a China Shop is set for the Claire Tow Theater from February 11 through March 26; opening night will take place on February 27. The story follows Mary Woolley and her partner Jeannette Marks as they reform and revolutionize women's education at the height of the suffrage movement. As evolving ambitions and desires strain the couple's relationship, this fast-paced comedy explores how we change the world, how the world changes us, and how we try to grow old together.

Casting for both off-Broadway productions will be announced at a later date.