Bock's The Drunken City Sets Casting, Opening Date

Full casting and production details for Playwrights Horizons' forthcoming off-Broadway staging of Adam Bock's The Drunken City have been announced. The play will begin previews on March 13 and open on March 26 at the company's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. The limited engagement is scheduled to continue through April 20, directed by Trip Cullman.

Joining the previously announced Barrett Foa Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Maria Dizzia Eurydice will be Cassie Beck world premiere of Bock's Thursday at Encore Theatre, Mike Colter A Soldier's Play at Second Stage, Sue Jean Kim BFE at Playwrights Horizons and Alfredo Narciso A Streetcar Named Desire at Roundabout, The Misanthrope at NYTW.

In The Drunken City, three twenty-something brides-to-be Beck, Dizzia and Kim go on a bar crawl find their lives going topsy-turvy when one of them suddenly begins to question her future after a chance encounter with a recently jilted handsome stranger Colter. The play is described as a theatrical take on the mystique of marriage and the ever-shifting nature of love and identity in a city that never sleeps.

Bock is making his Playwrights Horizons debut with The Drunken City after a string of successful off-Broadway plays, including the Obie Award-winning The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows and The Receptionist, a recent hit at Manhattan Theatre Club. Bock said in a statement, "There's a dramatic truism that when a character in a play is drunk, he or she will be the truth-teller, so I thought, 'Hey, why not write a play where everyone is drunk—that way, truth'll be flying every which everywhere.'"

The Drunken City features scenic design by David Korins, costume design by Jenny Mannis, lighting design by Matthew Richards and sound design by Bart Fasbender. Choreography will be by two-time Tony Award nominee John Carrafa Urinetown, Into the Woods, Love! Valour! Compassion!.