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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
By Dale Wasserman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey 
Directed by ensemble member John Kelly Connolly. 
Featuring ensemble members Paul D’Addario, Alex Main and Kenny Mihlfried.
Opens March 15

In an Oregon mental hospital, Nurse Ratched runs a perfectly disciplined ward.  The patients follow her every rule and keep no secrets. Enter Randall P. McMurphy, just transferred from prison, with a love for gambling, sex, booze and confrontation.  McMurphy bets his new friends that he can unravel Ratched in a week.  Told through the foggy haze of Chief Bromden’s hallucinations, the play raises the need to question authority and to attack the subtle dulling of the human spirit by institutions.  The novel, written in 1962, is one of the first steps taken in a life full of rebellion, by its Merry Prankster author, Ken Kesey. Ensemble member John Kelly Connolly makes his directorial debut.

SUICIDE, INC.
A World Premiere by Andrew Hinderaker
Directed by Jonathan Berry
Opens June 17

Having enjoyed successful staged readings at Steppenwolf and Chicago Dramatists featuring Gift artistic director Michael Patrick Thornton, SUICIDE, INC. is a seriocomedy set inside the offices of Legacy Letters, a start-up company whose dwindling staff edits their clients' suicide notes. When Jason—a new hire with the subversive agenda to save his clients—is assigned to lonely and desperate Norm, past and present collide.

THE LONESOME WEST
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Gift ensemble member Sheldon Patinkin.
Opens October 4

Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, The Lonesome West is the third play in Martin McDonagh’s Connemara trilogy which includes The Skull of Connemara (ensemble members Michael Patrick Thornton, John Gawlik at Northlight theatre) and The Beauty Queen of Leeane ensemble members John Gawlik, Lynda Newton at Gift Theatre).   Gift ensemble member Sheldon Patinkin, who directed The Gift’s critically acclaimed, Jeff Nominated production of Beauty Queen, returns to direct the hilariously violent examination of brotherly love.