Sharr White once told the Boston Globe, “I wrote three hours a day, at least, every day for 13 years before I got my first professional production.” That came in 2006, when the Humana Festival in Louisville staged “Six Years”.
Since then, White’s playwriting career has taken off. His “The Other Place” received good reviews on Broadway last season, and he’s got another play, “The Snow Geese”, featuring Mary Louise Parker, opening on Thursday at Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater.
But wait, there’s more: The New Group has just announced that in the spring, they’ll stage White’s “Annapurna”, featuring Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, of “Parks & Recreation” and “Will & Grace” fame, respectively. Running April 13-June 1 on Theater Row off-Broadway, the drama tells of a woman who abandoned her husband 20 years earlier. He’s in dire straits in his trailer now, so she returns to check up on him.
“Annapurna”, which premiered in 2011 at San Francisco’s Magic Theater, will be the third play of The New Group season, following Beth Henley’s “The Jacksonian” and Thomas Bradshaw’s “Intimacy”.