Works by Foote, Holtzman, Hollinger on Tap at Primary Stages Next Season

Primary Stages has announced three of its four planned productions for the 2007-2008 season. Three New York premieres—Dividing the Estate by Horton Foote, Something You Did by Willy Holtzman and Opus by Michael Hollinger—have been scheduled, plus a fourth, yet-to-be-announced, new work to be added. The engagement dates for each play will be announced at a later date.

With Dividing the Estate, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Horton Foote returns to Primary Stages with a 13-character comedy about a family that must confront its past as it prepares for its future. Foote's plays The Day Emily Married and When They Speak of Rita were produced by Primary Stages in recent seasons, both starring the 90-year-old playwright's daughter, Hallie Foote.

The New York Premiere of Something You Did by Willy Holtzman tells the story of a notorious sixties radical who has served nearly 30 years in prison for her part in the accidental killing of an African-American police officer during an explosive war protest. Now she is eligible for parole in a post 9/11 world where bombing is terrorism and dissent is treason. Primary Stages previously produced Holtzman's Bovver Boys starring a young Calista Flockhart and Sabina starring Peter Strauss as Sigmund Freud.

Opus by Michael Hollinger is a play about a world-renowned string quartet that struggles to prepare for their highest-profile performance when the violist, and founder of the quartet, mysteriously disappears. A young woman turns up, wows the group with her dazzling musical skill, and is hired as the replacement. Hollinger's An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf was produced by Primary Stages in 2000, starring Annie Golden and Jonathan Freeman.