Out Front on Main, Inc. celebrates the legacy and life of Lanford Wilson in April.

Wilson's Burn This, directed for the stage by George W. Manus Jr., will run at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Sundays, April 14-May 1. Out Front on Main, Inc. is located at 1511 E. Main Street, Murfreesboro-beside MTSU Info: (615) 713-1757 or www.outfrontonmain.com.

“From his earliest plays to his latest, Burn This, Lanford Wilson has been firmly committed to the free expression of the individual spirit, no matter how nonconformist or even prodigal that spirit may seem to be... In the sense that it deals with lonely and displaced characters, Burn This is in the Wilson tradition. Where it breaks dramatic ground for the author is in its passion ... Mr. Wilson exposes deep uncauterized emotional wounds-and offers no salve. His unlikely romantic couple come together at the end of the play, but it would be precipitous to think of it as a happy ending. The affair is a daring—and even questionable—step for the characters, Anna, a dancer-choreographer, and Pale, a wild man and certifiable outsider," The New York Times reviewer Mel Gussow said.

Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937 – March 24, 2011) was an American playwright considered one of the founders of the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Set in a chic loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Wilson’s electrifying play shows the tension that erupts when people from very different worlds collide. A penetrating exposition of four violently opposing characters who are scrambling to regain control over their lives. The cast includes Megan Blevins as Anna, Justin Hand as Pale, Buddy Jones as Larry and Ryan Daniel as Burton.