How excited are people about Paul Downs Colaizzo’s next play? So excited that a guy who usually does classics signed up to direct, and persuaded an Oscar winner to play the lead. Really, Really, Colaizzo’s searingly funny, sucker-punch of a play about self-obsessed millennials won the Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play of 2012. Earlier this year, Zosia Mamet starred in a successful off-Broadway run. Now Signature Theatre has also gotten first dibs on Colaizzo’s second play, a deal that feels more like a coup than a courtesy. Christine Lahti will star as a housewife with secrets in Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill, a play about trouble in suburban paradise. Michael Kahn, artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, will miss out on directing STC’s Measure for Measure in order to helm this one.
Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill
Oct. 15-Dec. 8 at Signature Theatre