David Cromer Brining Picnic Back

Director David Cromer is bringing William Inge’s Picnic back to Broadway after a successful production of Picnic in Chicago at the Writers’ Theatre last year which critics loved.

Picnic is a play about Midwesterners passions being aroused when a stranger comes to town, Picnic originally opened in 1953 and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Picnic was made into a movie in 1955, winning an Academy Award.

Picnic is scheduled for the 2010-2011 Broadway season.

Photo: B. Raglin

Tags: David Cromer, Picnic Broadway, William Inge Picnic

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