(AGENPARL) – gio 15 giugno 2023 June 15, 2023
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY ANNOUNCES
THE FIRST TWO PRODUCTIONS OF 2023-2024 SEASON
World Premiere Play
A Co-Production with National Theatre
INFINITE LIFE
Written by Annie Baker
Directed by James Macdonald
Linda Gross Theater
August 18 – October 8, 2023
Opening: Tuesday, September 12, 2023
World Premiere Musical
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB ®
Book by Marco Ramirez
Music by the Grammy Award winning Buena Vista Social Club
Choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck
Directed by Saheem Ali
Linda Gross Theater
November 17 – December 31, 2023
Opening: Tuesday, December 12, 2023
PLUS, ADDITIONAL EXCITING PRODUCTIONS TO BE ANNOUNCED!
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Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director, Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce the first two productions for its 2023-2024 season.
Atlantic’s 2023-2024 season kicks off with the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker’s play Infinite Life, directed by James Macdonald, and the world premiere of Marco Ramirez’s musical Buena Vista Social Club ®, directed by Tony Award nominee Saheem Ali.
Tickets for both Infinite Life and Buena Vista Social Club ® will go on pre-sale to Atlantic Members on Tuesday, June 27. Regular tickets will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, July 11.
Additional productions for the 2023-2024 season will be announced at a later date.
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY 2023-2024 SEASON
World Premiere Play
A Co-Production with National Theatre
INFINITE LIFE
Written by Annie Baker
Directed by James Macdonald
Linda Gross Theater
August 18 – October 8, 2023
Opening: Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Five women in Northern California sit outside on chaise lounges and philosophize. A surprisingly funny inquiry into the complexity of suffering, and what it means to desire in a body that's failing you.
Atlantic is thrilled to welcome back both Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker (Body Awareness) and Obie Award winning director James Macdonald (Cloud Nine).
The cast of Infinite Life will feature Marylouise Burke (True West), Mia Katigbak (Scenes From a Marriage), Christina Kirk (Clybourne Park), Kristine Nielsen (Tony Award nominee, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike), Brenda Pressley (The Lyons), and Pete Simpson (Is This a Room).  
Infinite Life will feature sets by dots, costumes by Ásta Bennie Hostetter, lighting by Isabella Byrd, sound by Bray Poor, props by Noah Mease, and casting by Caparelliotis Casting, Joe Geary, CSA. Laura Smith will serve as production stage manager.
World Premiere Musical
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB ®
Book by Marco Ramirez
Music by the Grammy Award winning Buena Vista Social Club
Choreography by Patricia Delgado and Justin Peck
Directed by Saheem Ali
Linda Gross Theater
November 17 – December 31, 2023
Opening: December 12, 2023
Inspired by the Grammy-winning 1997 album, Atlantic Theater Company presents the world premiere musical Buena Vista Social Club ®. Directed by Tony Award nominee Saheem Ali (Fat Ham), this story of the legendary artists who recorded the album features the soul-stirring music of Cuba’s golden age, with a book by Marco Ramirez (Drama Desk Award, The Royale), choreography by Patricia Delgado and Tony Award winner Justin Peck (Carousel, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story) and a music team led by Tony Award winner David Yazbek (The Band's Visit).
Buena Vista Social Club ® will feature sets by Arnulfo Maldonado, costumes by Dede Ayite, lighting by Bradley King, sound by Jonathan Deans, projections by Hannah Waseleski, music supervisor Dean Sharenow, music director Marco Paguia, and casting by Tara Rubin Casting, Xavier Rubiano, CSA. 
BIOGRAPHIES
INFINITE LIFE
ANNIE BAKER (Playwright). Annie's other plays include The Antipodes (Signature Theatre, National Theatre), John (Signature Theatre, National Theatre, Obie Award), The Flick (Playwrights Horizons, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Obie Award for Playwriting, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Obie Award for Best New American Play); Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright); and an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep, Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival), for which she also designed the costumes. Other honors include a MacArthur Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Steinberg Playwriting Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and the Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. She is Associate Professor of Practice at the MFA in Playwriting Program at the University of Texas, Austin, and wrote and directed the upcoming film Janet Planet for A24 and BBC Film.
JAMES MACDONALD (Director). New York: True West (Roundabout Theater); The Children, Top Girls (MTC/Broadway); Escaped Alone (BAM); Cloud Nine (Atlantic Theater); Love and Information (Minetta Lane/NYTW, Obie Award); Cock (2010 Olivier Award, 2013 Lucille Lortel Award); King Lear, Book of Grace, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (Public Theater); Dying City (Lincoln Center); A Number (NYTW); 4.48 Psychosis (St. Ann’s Warehouse). Recent London work: What If If Only, One For Sorrow, The Children, Escaped Alone, The Wolf From the Door, Circle Mirror Transformation (Royal Court); The Welkin, John, Dido Queen of Carthage, The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, Exiles (National Theatre); Night of the Iguana, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Father, Glengarry Glen Ross (West End); Bakkhai, A Delicate Balance, Judgment Day (Almeida); A Doll’s House Part Two, The Way of the World, Roots (Donmar). Film: Caryl Churchill’s A Number for HBO/BBC.
MARYLOUISE BURKE (Eileen). Broadway/UK: True West, Annie Baker’s John (London’s National Theatre), Fish in the Dark, Is He Dead?, Into the Woods. Off-Broadway includes Epiphany (Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and Drama League nominations), Everybody, Ripcord, Fuddy Meers (Drama Desk Award), Kimberly Akimbo (Drama Desk nomination), Savannah Disputation, American Sligo, The Oldest Profession, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid, and Love Loss and What I Wore. Regional includes A Parallelogram (Steppenwolf, Mark Taper Forum), Good People (Geffen), and The Importance of Being Earnest (Williamstown Theatre Festival).  Film includes Sideways, A Prairie Home Companion, I Know This Much Is True, Series 7, Must Love Dogs, Meet Joe Black, and Sleepwalk with Me. TV: Recurring on “The Blacklist,” “New Amsterdam,” “Prodigal Son,” “Alpha House,” “Longmire,” and “Ozark.” 2014 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.
MIA KATIGBAK (Yvette). Selected NYC: Romeo & Juliet (NAATCO), Out of Time (NAATCO); The Headlands (LCT3); Henry VI (NAATCO, St. Clair Bayfield Award); Scenes From a Marriage (NYTW); Awake and Sing! (NAATCO, Obie Award). Virtual: What If If Only (Caryl Churchill, US Premiere), Russian Troll Farm. Other NYC: Transport Group, Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, PlayCo, Ma-Yi, New Georges, Soho Rep, Target Margin.  Regional: Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Humana Festival, Two River Theater, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie. TV: "Josep," “How to Get Away With Murder,” “The Sinner,” “Chicago PD.” 2021 USA Fellow; Special Drama Desk Award 2019; 2017 Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement; Actor-Manager and Co-Founder, NAATCO.
CHRISTINA KIRK (Sofi) has appeared in numerous productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway and regionally. Credits include: Clybourne Park (Broadway/ Playwrights Horizons), Well (Broadway), God’s Ear (New Georges/The Vineyard), and [sic] (Soho Rep). She is an affiliated artist of Clubbed Thumb and a founding associate artist of The Civilians. Film and television credits include: Fatal Attraction, Goliath, “Younger,” “Girls,” “The Newsroom,” Taking Woodstock, and Love Is Strange.  
KRISTINE NIELSEN (Ginnie) most recently appeared in Regretfully, So The Birds Are at Playwrights Horizons where she also appeared in Hir, Crazy Mary, Miss Witherspoon and Betty’s Summer Vacation. Broadway: Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Present Laughter, You Can’t Take It With You, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Jose’ Quintero’s production of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards among others. Nielsen has performed in numerous Off-Broadway productions at the Public/NY Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre and Lincoln Center and others. She has worked in many regional theaters and has worked in various TV series. Two-time Tony Award nominee. Two-time Obie Award winner and an Outer Critic’s Circle Award winner. She is currently in HBO’s “The Gilded Age” and recently finished filming Coup!, an independent film.
BRENDA PRESSLEY (Elaine). Broadway: The Lyons, The American Plan; Cats; Dreamgirls (original company). Off-Broadway: Proof of Love, Surely Goodness and Mercy,  Almost Home, The First Breeze of Summer; Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles?, Seven Guitars, Fran’s Bed, Goodwill; Marvin's Room; And The World Goes ‘Round-The Songs of Kander and Ebb (Outer Critics Circle Award); Blues In The Night. Regional: we are continuous… (Williamstown), Flyin’ West (Westport), Skeleton Crew (Dorset), Intimate Apparel (McCarter), Having Our Say (Long Wharf/Hartford), Trouble In Mind (Two River Theater Company), Black Odyssey (Denver Center Theater Company), In This House (Two River Theater Company, Sundance Theatre Lab 2002), The Old Settler (Freedom Theater, 2000 Barrymore Award, Best Actress also McCarter Theater-world premiere- and The Long Wharf Theater); Blues For An Alabama Sky (Cincinnati Playhouse, The Old Globe); Jar The Floor (Syracuse Stage); A Raisin In The Sun (Ford Theater); To Be Young Gifted and Black (The Kennedy Center). Film: Third Street Blackout, Detachment, 16 Blocks, Cradle Will Rock, It Could Happen To You. Television: “The Path,” “Body of Proof,” “Law and Order,” “Deadline,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “New York Undercover,” “Daddy’s Girl,” “Harambee,” “Educating Matt Waters,” HBO’s “Lifestories,” “Brewster Place” (with Oprah Winfrey).
PETE SIMPSON (Nelson). Broadway: Is This a Room (as Justin Garrick, a role he originated in prior productions Off-Broadway, including the Vineyard Theatre). A member of Elevator Repair Service, Pete appeared as Tom Buchanan in the multiple-award winning Gatz in NYC and internationally. Additional NYC theatre: The Seagull (ERS), Angelo in Measure for Measure (Public Theater/ ERS); Drew in Straight White Men (Public Theater); Mike Campbell in The Select/The Sun Also Rises (New York Theater Workshop); North Atlantic (Wooster Group, opposite Willem Dafoe); Lunch in Tincat Shoes and Dad in California (Clubbed Thumb); Edmund in Lear (Soho Rep). Pete is a vet of over 5,000 performances with Blue Man Group (Off Broadway and international tours, including writing/training/directing contributions). Regional: Denver Center, Williamstown, Westport Country Playhouse, NY Stage and Film. Screen: Marriage Story; Morning Glory; Lincoln in the Bardo; “Gotham,” “Law & Order.” 2017 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. @peterksimpsonjr
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
MARCO RAMIREZ (Book). Marco’s play, The Royale, was produced at Lincoln Center in 2016 under the direction of Rachel Chavkin. It was honored with Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the play has received over thirty subsequent productions. He's a proud Cuban American, NYU graduate, and a former Juilliard Playwriting fellow. In television, he’s a WGA and Emmy Award-nominated writer, with credits that include “Sons of Anarchy,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Daredevil,” and the upcoming “La Máquina,” starring Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna.
SAHEEM ALI (Director) is a proud immigrant from Kenya. He received a Tony Award nomination for directing the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fat Ham on Broadway, the 2023 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Directing, as well as Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations for Fat Ham’s Off-Broadway run at the Public Theater, where he serves as the Associate Artistic Director/Resident Director. His production of Merry Wives (Shakespeare in the Park) was recorded for PBS Great Performances and was the subject of the documentary Reopening Night (HBO Max). Recent productions include Goddess (Berkeley Rep), Nollywood Dreams (MCC), Romeo y Julieta, Shipwreck and Richard II (radio plays). Other productions: Fires in The Mirror (Signature Theater), The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center Theater), Passage (Soho Rep), Fireflies (Atlantic Theater Company), In Our Wounds (MTC), Tartuffe (Playmakers Rep), Where Storms Are Born (WTF), and Kill Move Paradise (National Black Theater). He is a Usual Suspect at New York Theater Workshop, a Sir John Gielgud SDCF Fellow, and a Shubert Fellow.
PATRICIA DELGADO (Co-Choreographer), Cuban-American, born in Miami, Florida was a principal dancer with the Miami City Ballet, where she performed works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, among others as well as the classical works, Coppelia, Giselle, and Don Quixote, and the role of Juliet in John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet. She has created feature works with choreographers Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, Pam Tanowitz, Jamar Roberts, John Heginbotham, among others. She performed in the musical Brigadoon, directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon at Encores! She starred in the music video “The Dark Side of the Gym” for The National and has appeared as a guest performer on “The Tonight Show”. As a repetiteur for Justin Peck, she staged In Creases on Boston Ballet, Ballet Arizona, and for members of ABT and Heatscape in Dresden, at the Semperoper Ballett. She is the Associate Choreographer on Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. She was an Associate Producer on the 2020 Broadway revival of West Side Story. She is a member of the dance faculty at The Juilliard School and Artistic Advisor of Adriana Pierce’s Queer The Ballet.
DAVID YAZBEK (Music Producer). A varied career as a recording artist, Emmy^ Award-winning TV and screenwriter, music producer, and pianist has somehow led Yazbek to become one of Broadway’s preeminent composer/lyricists. The Band’s Visit earned him a Tony Award, Obie, New York Drama Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and two Drama Desk awards. The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Tootsie have received a combined 35 Tony Award nominations, including four for Best Score. As a recording artist, Yazbek is responsible for five albums: The Laughing Man, Tock, Damascus, Tape Recorder and Evil Monkey Man. He has written and/or produced for such acts as XTC, Ruben Blades, The Persuasions, Joe Jackson, Tito Puente and many others. He also produced the original cast albums of his Broadway shows. He has three Grammy Award^® nominations. In recent years, he has scored the final season of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” composed music for Larry David’s Fish in the Dark and written songs and music for Much Ado About Nothing at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, all while opening productions of Scoundrels and Women on the Verge in London’s West End. In past lives, he has written dozens of scripts and many songs for television and film, won an Emmy Award^® for his stint on “Late Night with David Letterman” and wrote the unrelenting theme song for “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?”