Heroes of the Fourth Turning (TCG Edition)

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• Heroes of the Fourth Turning received its world premiere Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in September 2019.
• Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a New York Times Critics Pick. NYT critics Ben Brantley and Jesse Green both named the play one of their top 10 shows of 2019.
• Heroes was also named one of the best plays of 2019 by New York Magazine and Time Out New York.
• TCG will also be publishing the script of Heroes in American Theatre magazines March 2020 issue.
• Will Arbery is the 2019/20 Tow Playwright-in-Residence at Playwrights Horizons.
• Arberys other plays include Plano, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, and Wheelchair.
• Hes a member of The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, P73s Interstate 73, Colt Coeur, Youngblood, and an alum of Clubbed Thumbs Early Career Writers Group.
• His plays have been developed at Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, The Vineyard, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Cape Cod Theater Project, The New Group, EST/Youngblood, The Bushwick Starr, Alliance/Kendeda, and Tofte Lake Center.
• Arberys honors include a Tow Foundation Grant, an Edes Prize for Emerging Artists, and a Stage Raw Award for Best Playwriting.

Reviews

"It's hard to talk about Arbery's play, in a way, because there's so much talking in it, and the voices aren't ones we hear often Off-Broadway. They are deeply religious, profoundly Catholic, proudly conservative, sometimes messianic. Arbery's plays are important explorations of lan-guage... He's showing us how language, even at its most beautiful, can destabilize a mind, a backyard, the world." --Helen Shaw, Time Out New York

"An astonishing play." --Jesse Green, New York Times

"A stunning play... Heroes of the Fourth Turning is so frighteningly well written, it's hard to write about. It's a rare play--lyrical and scary, brave and terribly gentle." --Sara Holdren, Vulture

"The complexities of faith, politics, and personal history collide in Will Arbery's bracingly original Heroes of the Fourth Turning, throwing off enough sparks to start a forest fire... While Heroes is a work of drama, not advocacy, the play takes its characters and their ideas seriously--and then goes the extra, necessary step of forcing them to confront the personal cost, for them and for us, of living out those ideas." --Don Aucoin, Boston Globe

Author Bio

Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. His plays include Plano, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Corsicana, You Hateful Things, and Wheelchair. Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Other awards include an Obie Award for Playwriting and the Whiting Award for Drama. TV work includes Succession and Irma Vep.