LR Hall graduate David Auburn’s new play opens tonight in NYC

mtc lost lakeDavid Auburn, an alum of the Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre and a 1987 graduate of Hall High School, won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony for Best Play for his play Proof. Tonight, his latest play opens in New York City at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

The team behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning Proof and The Columnist returns to MTC with LOST LAKE, a riveting and spirited world premiere play by Tony®-winner David Auburn and directed by Tony-winner Daniel Sullivan. The play stars John Hawkes and Tracie Thoms.

The lakeside rental Veronica has managed to afford is a far cry from the idyllic getaway she and her children so desperately need. And the disheveled property owner, Hogan, has problems of his own – problems that Veronica is inevitably – and irrevocably – pulled into.

An engrossing and revealing portrait of two strangers bound together by circumstance, LOST LAKE is a vivid new work about the struggle for connection in an imperfect world.

LOST LAKE is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.

ROCKing the TONYs – David Auburn (who also Rocked the Pulitzers too)

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Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

Rock the TonysDavid Auburn

Little Rock connection: Graduated from Hall High School. Participated in Arkansas Arts Center Children’s Theatre.

Tony Awards connection: Won a Tony for writing Proof, 2001 Best Play. The play also won Tony’s for Actress in a Play (Mary-Louise Parker) and Director of a Play (Daniel Sullivan) and received three other nominations for the other members of the cast: Larry Bryggman, Ben Shenkman and Johanna Day. His 2013 play The Columnist netted a Tony nomination for John Lithgow.  His next play, Lost Lake, premieres Off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club later this year.

Auburn also won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Proof. This year’s Pulitzer prizes are to be announced today.