Ode to Joy (TCG Edition). Craig Lucas

• World premiere Off-Broadway at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in 2014, directed by Craig Lucas and starring Kathryn Erbe (Law and Order: Criminal Intent) and Arliss Howard (True Blood). • Play deals with issues of substance abuse and addiction, and is inspired by Lucas’s own struggles with addiction, about which he has spoken openly.• Lucas’s other most recent play, The Lying Lesson, about Bette Davis, ran Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company in 2013, starring Carol Kane.• Other recent projects include the libretto to Two Boys, an opera by Nico Muhly that was produced by English National Opera (London) in 2011 and Metropolitan Opera (New York) in 2013.• Lucas wrote the book and lyrics for a musical adaptation of King Kong that premiered in Melbourne, Australia in 2013 and is expected to open on Broadway in late 2014 or 2015. • Lucas has also been announced as the book writer for a musical based on the film Amelie. No production date has been announced yet. • Lucas has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist (Prelude to a Kiss, 1991), and is a two-time Tony Award nominee (Best Play, Prelude to a Kiss, 1990 and Best Book of a Musical, The Light in the Piazza, 2005), among other awards.