| World Premiere of BEFORE THIS NEW YEAR - Performances Begin March 2025 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 05:27 pm EST 12/19/24 | |
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| Let's be eighteen before we can't anymore ANNOUNCING THE WORLD PREMIERE NEW PLAY BEFORE THIS NEW YEAR BY LIANA SONENCLAR DIRECTED BY KNUD ADAMS PERFORMANCES BEGIN MARCH 2025 AT THE DUKE ON 42ND STREET AT NEW 42 STUDIOS FOR UPDATES AND TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN TICKETS GO ON SALE, VISIT BEFORETHISNEWYEAR.COM (December 19, 2024 - New York, NY) – As 2024 comes to a close, producer Jonathan Demar is proud to announce the World Premiere of Before This New Year, a new play by emerging playwright Liana Sonenclar (To Be Honest) and directed by Obie Award winner Knud Adams (English). Before This New Year will begin performances next year at The Duke on 42nd Street at NEW 42 Studios (229 W 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) in March 2025. High-school track star Alison Bennett had met every expectation — until it all fell apart. After her first semester of college, Alison returns home for the holidays and reconnects with her former teammate Haley. As old feelings resurface, they must confront the choices that ended their running careers and reshaped their lives. Sharp, funny, and poignant, Before This New Year is a powerful exploration of love, loss, identity, and coming-of-age in today's relentlessly high-pressured world. Mott/Fischer Productions will serve as General Manager. Additional information about Before This New Year, including full cast, creative team, performance schedule and ticket information will be announced in the new year. For updates about Before This New Year and to be notified when tickets go on sale, visit beforethisnewyear.com. FOR MORE INFORMATION: BEFORETHISNEWYEAR.COM Instagram: @BTNYPlay X: @BTNYPlay TikTok: @BTNYPlay Facebook: @BTNYPlay Threads: @BTNYPlay # # # BIOS Liana Sonenclar (Playwright) is a writer based in New York City. Her work has been presented with New York Stage and Film, The New Group, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Guild Hall, Out of the Box Theatrics, Tacoma Film Festival, HollyShorts, and more. Her short film "To Be Honest" played at thirteen festivals across the country and scored four Best of Fest wins. It can currently be streamed on Omeleto ("World's Best Shorts"). Liana has been fortunate to develop her work with talent such as Natalia Dyer, AnnaSophia Robb, Julia Lester, Gaten Matarazzo, and more. She was the youngest finalist in history to place for the Al Blanchard Award (short story) at the New England Crime Bake. Liana studied English at the University of Chicago and has a BFA in Acting from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is represented by William Morris Endeavor (WME). Knud Adams (Director) is an Obie-winning director of artful new plays, based in NYC. He premiered the last two Pulitzer Prize winners, English and Primary Trust, and he's currently directing English on Broadway at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Additional new works: The Book of Mountain and Seas, I'm Revolting, Bodies They Ritual, The Headlands, Paris, The Workshop, Asshole, and Tom & Eliza. His productions have been celebrated on "Best of the Year" lists by The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. His past and frequent collaborators include Eliza Bent, Eboni Booth, Christopher Chen, Will Eno, Angela Hanks, Justin Kuritzkes, Yilong Liu, Mona Pirnot, Jenny Schwartz, Celine Song, Sanaz Toossi, and Ken Urban. Jonathan Demar (Producer) is a Tony Award-winning producer. Through his production company, Dynamic Elevations LLC, Jonathan champions projects that elevate the art form and spark meaningful conversation. His Broadway co-producing credits include Swept Away, Hadestown (Tony), Stereophonic (Tony), Merrily We Roll Along (Tony), Appropriate (Tony), An Enemy of the People, Gutenberg! The Musical!, The Cottage, Funny Girl, POTUS, Be More Chill (Off-Broadway & London), Love Letters, and The Velocity of Autumn. Off-Broadway credits include Clowns Like Me (DR2 Theater), Fairycakes (Greenwich House Theater), This Beautiful Future (Cherry Lane Theater), The Saintliness of Margery Kempe (The Duke on 42nd Street), and Church & State (New World Stages). West End/UK credits include Amélie and Dolly Parton's 9 to 5. Upcoming: BULLETHEAD by Peter Macklin, directed by Scott Schwartz. Jonathan holds a BA from Emory University. NEW 42 Studios, including the black box theater The Duke on 42nd Street, cultivates new ideas in the performing arts through exceptional services and spaces that empower artists to do their best work. Duke on 42nd Street artists access quality performance space at highly-subsidized rates that include ticket services, production equipment and venue usher support from the NEW 42 Youth Corps, a career success program that equips students with mentoring, academic resources and flexible employment. NEW 42 Studios is a project of New 42 – a cultural nonprofit whose mission is to make extraordinary performing arts a vital part of everyone's life from the earliest years onward. Driven by a deep commitment to performing arts access, New 42 connects people to world-class performances, essential education and employment programs, and creative communities that push culture forward. Through New Victory and New 42 Studios, the nonprofit serves artists, educators and New Yorkers of all ages with invaluable arts engagement and resources in and beyond the performing arts. Together with our supporters, New 42 opens new perspectives, incubates new works and creates new opportunities to move us all. |
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