Primary Stages to Present Works by Terrence McNally & Charles Grodin

Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams centers on Lou and Jessie Nuncle, who run a children's theater in a mall in upstate New York. When the possibility of taking over an abandoned vaudeville palace arises, the Nuncles are forced to examine how far their love of theater will take them. The show had its world premiere in August 2004 at the Williamstown Theatre Festival with Boyd Gaines as Lou Nuncle and Debra Monk as Jessie Nuncle. The Primary Stages production, directed by Michael Morris, is scheduled to begin performances in July.

The Right Kind of People is a biting send-up of a fashionable Fifth Avenue co-op board, where issues of race, gender and social status simmer just beneath the surface. The comedy, directed by Chris Smith, premiered in the fall under the banner of the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Dennis Harvey of Variety said of the play at that point: "This seriocomedy about ugly doings on a Fifth Avenue co-op board mines some laughs, recognition and righteous indignation from watching the rich behave badly. Still, the evening's diversions can't quite hide the fact that its target is an easy one, and these particular kinds of people remain of great interest only to themselves." Smith will reprise his duties in the New York staging, slated for the fall.

Primary Stages is currently presenting Willy Holtzman's Sabina. The last production of the company's 2004-2005 season will be Lee Blessing's Going to St. Ives with L. Scott Caldwell who has a small featured role on the hit ABC series Lost. The production will begin performances in March.