Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies' newest work, which was set to premiere at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse this season, has been pushed back until next year, Variety reports. Instead, Margulies' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont As Told by Himself will appear in its place, running from June 25 to August 3. Bart DeLorenzo, who directed Geffen's Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in A Life in Progress, will direct the show.
Margulies' postponed piece, tentatively titled The Elephant in the Room, was pushed back to accommodate the schedule of director Daniel Sullivan, who has served this season as interim Artistic Director at the Manhattan Theatre Club and helmed the current Broadway revival of The Homecoming. Sullivan directed Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner With Friends, as well as Sight Unseen and Brooklyn Boy
Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont As Told by Himself, described as the tale of an old man who finds that stardom is a fleeting thing, was commissioned by the South Coast Repertory Theatre and premiered there last fall in a production starring Gregory Itzin of TV's 24. Michael Countryman recently finished a run in the play at the Long Wharf Theatre.
