Baryshnikov to Star in Beckett One-Acts During NYTW's 2007-2008 Season

Mikhail Baryshnikov will star in an evening of one-act plays by Samuel Beckett, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, during the 2007-2008 season at New York Theatre Workshop. The off-Broadway company's 25th anniversary season will also include new works by playwrights Betty Shamieh and Naomi Wallace. The complete schedule, as announced by artistic director James C. Nicola, is as follows:

Horizon, a new music theater piece created, written and composed by Rinde Eckert and directed by David Schweitzer. Eckert plays Reinhart Poole, an unconventional theologian and teacher of ethics at a seminary who is being pressured to resign by dogmatic powers within his church June-July.

The Black Eyed, a new play by Betty Shamieh, directed by Sam Gold, that depicts four Arab women from across the ages who meet in the afterlife July-August.

A new production directed by Ivo Van Hove, who has previously directed four shows at NYTW, including a critically acclaimed Hedda Gabler in 2004 September-October.

Four one-act plays by Samuel Beckett, Act Without Words I and II, Eh Joe and Rough for Theatre, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, with original music by Philip Glass. Mikhail Baryshnikov leads a cast that includes David Neumann, Karen Kandel and Bill Camp December-January 2008.

Things of Dry Hours, a new play by Naomi Wallace. In Depression-era Alabama, Tice Hogan, a black Sunday School teacher and Communist Party leader, lives at the edge of trouble with his daughter Winter 2008.

A new work by the experimental theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service based on William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury Spring 2008.