Roundabout to Present Greenberg's Naked Girl on B'way in Fall

Richard Greenberg's A Naked Girl on the Appian Way is set to have its New York premiere at the American Airlines Theatre, where it is scheduled to run from September 9 through November 27. The Roundabout Theatre Company mounting of the play will be directed by recent Tony winner Doug Hughes who will also helm A Touch of the Poet for the Roundabout.

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way centers on Bess, a successful cookbook author, and her husband Jeffrey, a distracted genius. The couple's lives are upended when their two children return from a year of European travel and reveal surprising news that stretches the family beyond their breaking point.

The show premiered at the South Coast Repertory this spring in a production directed by Martin Rucker. Variety's Joel Hirschhorn wrote of that mounting of the play: "Richard Greenberg, Tony winner for Take Me Out, continues to display a flair for witty dialogue… His characters always make clever points about parenthood and sexuality, and their pertinent observations are particularly welcome when scenes become too protracted and disjointed… [Despite] inconsistencies, the play boasts a unique concept and Greenberg's idiosyncratic view of rampant sexual chaos beneath controlled facades. Its future as a crowd-pleaser could rise as all the ingredients mix and meld."

A Naked Girl on the Appian Way is scheduled to officially open on Broadway on October 6.