Lincoln Center Adds Shinn's Dying City to Its Newhouse Season

Lincoln Center Theater has added Dying City, a new play by Christopher Shinn, to its season at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The play, directed by James Macdonald, will begin performances February 6, 2007, and open February 26.

Originally produced in London this spring at the Royal Court Theatre, Dying City tells the story of Kelly, a young therapist whose husband dies while on military duty in Iraq. A year later, his identical twin brother arrives unexpectedly at Kelly's door, seeking solace— and answers to the mystery of his brother's death.

Shinn's plays, which include Four, Where Do We Live, What Didn't Happen, The Coming World and Other People, have been produced at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Vineyard Theatre, among others. He is the recipient of an Obie Award for Playwriting and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Macdonald directed the New York Theater Workshop's production of Caryl Churchill's A Number. In addition to the London production of Dying City, he has directed extensively at the Royal Court, including productions of the Sarah Kane plays 4.48 Psychosis, Blasted and Cleansed, as well as Lucky Dog and Blood. He directed Roberto Zucco for the RSC, The Triumph of Love at the Almeida Theatre and, most recently, <>Exiles at the National Theatre.

The cast of two for LCT's production of Dying City will be announced at a later date.