A new off-broadway play about the Major League Baseball steroid scandal opens at the New York City Center MTC Stage 2 on November 18, 2008. Daniel Aukin directs the Manhattan Theatre Club production of “Back Back Back.”

Does greatness always come with a price? Can only someone with nothing to lose tell the whole truth? From the acclaimed writer of last season’s MTC Stage II hit The Four of Us and Bach at Leipzig comes a stirring new drama about America’s favorite pastime. Back Back Back follows the turbulent careers of three very different teammates in baseball’s steroid era whose clubhouse secrets bring them under federal scrutiny.

Playwright Itamar Moses revisits the steroid scandal with a fictionalized exploration of the relationships between admitted steroid user Jose Canseco and implicated steroid user Mark McGwire juxtaposed against team’s “steroid abstainer” Walt Weiss. … Read the rest of this entry »