Wartime Drama, 'The Language of Trees', With Hayden, Begins Roundabout Run (Playbill)

Kenneth Jones Playbill On-Line Mon Oct 6, 5:29 PM ET Alex Timbers directs Maggie Burke, Natalie Gold, Michael Hayden, Gio Perez and Michael Warner in the Off-Broadway production in the subterranean Black Box Theatre within the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre at 111 W. 46th Street. Opening is Oct. 29. "When an American translator is sent into a U.S. war zone in the Middle East, a friendly neighbor volunteers to help out his wife and young son back at home," according to Roundabout. "As events abroad spiral out of control, the lives of all the characters are turned upside down. The Language of Trees is a boldly theatrical and provocative new play about the fragility of language, the ecology of war and the meaning of neighborliness in an age of terror." All tickets for Roundabout Underground productions are $20.... [read full story]