Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Paula Vogel are Broadway bound

Second Stage, a nonprofit theater that focuses on works by living American writers, said it will present a well-known play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and a new work by Paula Vogel on Broadway this season.

This fall, the company plans to perform “Appropriate,” the Jacobs-Jenkins play about a family gathering in Arkansas disrupted by the discovery of a photo album full of disturbing images.

The play was performed in 2014 at the Signature Theater Company, an Off Broadway non-profit organization. Ben Brantley, The Times’ chief theater critic at the time, praised it as “remarkable and cunning”.

The new production, which begins performances in November and premieres at the Helen Hayes Theater in December, is directed by Lila Neugebauer (“The Waverly Gallery”). Jacobs Jenkins, a 2016 receiver from the MacArthur Foundation’s so-called “Genius Grant,” is a two-time Pulitzer finalist, for “Gloria” and “Everybody,” and is also the author of “The Comeuppance,” now showing at Manhattan’s Signature Theater. ‘Appropriate’ will be the first play he has written to be performed on Broadway, although he contributed material to a recent Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’.

Next spring, Second Stage plans to present a new play, as yet untitled, from Vogel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “How I Learned to Drive.” That play, which opens in March and opens at the Hayes in April, is directed by Tina Landau and is a family drama set in a Washington suburb in 1962. Vogel is also the author of “Indecent,” which was produced on Broadway in 2017 .

Second Stage said it would also present an off-Broadway production this fall of Jen Silverman’s new play “Spain,” set in 1936 and about two filmmakers making a KGB-backed film about the Spanish Civil War. The production is directed by Tyne Rafaeli and will run at the Tony Kiser Theater from November.