Time plus technology is crucial for work like "Spy Garbo," which Mr. Cunningham directed there in 2011, in a coproduction with the Affinity Company.
Canyon Jonathan Caren's latest dark comedy, having its world premiere at Los Angeles Theatre Center in a coproduction with IAMA Theater Company, gathers four thirty-something liberals in a woodsy L.A. backyard over wine and lets them bemoan the difficulty of making a real difference in the world for a while.
The show had its premiere last year at Yale Rep in a coproduction with American Repertory Theater.
The play, which originated at the National Theater, in a coproduction with Headlong, duly transferred to the West End.
Annie Baker took the award last year for The Flick, while the previous year's winning play, Jennifer Haley's cyber-thriller The Nether, will receive its UK premiere at the Royal Court this summer in a coproduction with Headlong.
(It presented "Detroit '67" in a coproduction with Baltimore Center Stage). And the leaders intend to bring other Michigan artists into the fold, including the playwright Noah Haidle, whose "Birthday Candles" will have its world premiere as the final show this season.
Anna Nicole Smith, who died in 2007 at the age of 39, was a jeans model, a pinup and a tragic figure, and is now the subject of an opera, "Anna Nicole," composed by Mark-Anthony Turnage, which will have its American premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from Sept. 17 to 28, in a coproduction with the financially troubled New York City Opera.
Her choice of repertory was shaped by her decision to present "Lost in the Stars," the Weill musical with a book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, in a coproduction with the Cape Town Opera from South Africa, where the source for the story, the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country," is set.
But while the matters it considers are painfully topical, Mr. Fuller's play, at the Cherry Lane Theater in a coproduction with the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, grows overwrought and sensationalistic as it depicts the suffering of Alicia (Rutina Wesley), a former Army truck driver whose life has unraveled since she went public with charges of rape against three fellow servicemen in Iraq.
It went on to a sold-out, twice-extended run this fall in a 230-seat house at the Studio Theater in Washington, a coproduction with the Huntington.
