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McNally's AND AWAY WE GO Extends to Dec 21, $20 Rush For Theater Artists

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 10:50 am EST 12/05/13

THE PEARL THEATRE COMPANY EXTENDS TERRENCE MCNALLY’S AND AWAY WE GO TO DECEMBER 21 Critically-Acclaimed World Premiere Celebrates Theater and The Pearl, New York’s Longest-Running Classical Resident Acting Company New $20 Rush Tickets for All Theater Professionals And Away We Go By Terrence McNally Directed by Jack Cummings III Regular Performances: December 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15 at 2pm; December 5–7, 12–17 at 8pm; December 10 at 7pm Extension: December 17 at 7pm; December 18, 21 at 2pm; December 19–21 at 8pm Tuesday Talkback with Cast & Crew: Dec 10, post-performance, free with admission Talkback (New) with Terrence McNally: Dec 21, post-matinee performance, free with admission The Pearl Theatre (555 West 42nd Street, NYC) Tickets are $65 ($50 previews, $35 seniors, $20 student, $20 theater professional rush, $20 Thursday rush) pearltheatre.org; 212.563.9261 100 minutes with no intermission Due to popular demand, The Pearl Theatre Company extends And Away We Go, the critically-acclaimed world premiere by four-time Tony Award-winner Terrence McNally, to December 21. In his first play written for an ensemble of actors, McNally celebrates the classics, acting companies and The Pearl itself. Directed by Jack Cummings III, And Away We Go is a love letter to theater that has been embraced by audiences and critics alike. Charles Isherwood in The New York Times says “Terrence McNally plants a big wet kiss on his lifelong love--the theatre” in his “frolicsome valentine to the glorious, maddening, demanding world of footlights, spotlights and ghost lights.” Theatremania notes “And Away We Go delivers the goods! It's not hard to imagine the play being studied alongside Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author.” NY Theatre Now says “this brave and well realized taking on of a noted playwright of our times adds immeasurably to this Pearl's luster,” while Lighting and Sound declares that McNally “has done it again, penning an unsentimental ode to the art form he has served so well for over four decades. See it and you'll never again say the words, it’s only a play.” In keeping with the spirit of the play, The Pearl is pleased to announce a new $20 rush policy open to all working theater professionals. Cash only tickets will be available 2 hours prior to curtain, in person only at the box office. Valid ID from Actors' Equity Association (or Equity Member Candidate), Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers, IATSE Local One or Stage Directors and Choreographers Society is required Performances of And Away We Go will now continue through December 21 (see schedule above) at The Pearl Theatre, which is located at 555 West 42nd Street in New York City. Tickets are $65 ($50 previews, $35 seniors) and can be purchased by visiting pearltheatre.org or calling 212.563.9261. $20 student rush, $20 theater professional rush, and $20 Thursday rush are available first-come, first-served pending availability. Times change, but life in the theatre remains the same: chaotic, sometimes brutal but often euphoric, too. And Away We Go jumps through time from backstage in ancient Athens to a rehearsal at The Globe, from Versailles’s Royal Theater to the first reading of a new play by Chekhov – with an unlikely stop in Coral Gables and the American premiere of Waiting for Godot along the way. The cast of And Away We Go features over 30 different characters played by six actors including Pearl Resident Acting Company (RAC) Rachel Botchan, and Pearl RAC member Dominic Cuskern, Obie Award-winner and Pearl RAC member Sean McNall, and Pearl RAC member Carol Schultz, along with Micah Stock and Donna Lynne Champlin. The creative team includes Sandra Goldmark (Sets), Kathyrn Rohe (Costumes), R. Lee Kennedy (Lighting), Michael Rasbury (Sound), Kate Farrington (Dramaturg) and Lloyd Davis, Jr. (Production Stage Manager). About the Artists Terrence McNally (playwright) is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. He has won four Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! (as well as the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play and the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play) and Master Class and his musical books for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. The Kennedy Center recently produced three of his plays under the title Terrence McNally’s Nights at the Opera: Master Class, The Lisbon Traviata, and the world premiere of Golden Age. His new play And Away We Go will premiere at The Pearl Theatre Company in November. In 1996 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. Jack Cummings III (director) is the co-founder and Artistic Director of off-Broadway’s Transport Group Theatre Company. He is a four-time Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Director (The Audience, The Boys in the Band, See Rock City & Other Destinations, and Hello Again). Other favorite Transport Group credits include the first New York revivals of Michael John LaChiusa’s First Lady Suite (starring Tony nominee Mary Beth Peil), Tad Mosel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning All The Way Home, William Inge’s classic The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (starring Tony winner Michele Pawk) as well as the world premiere musicals Queen of the Mist (starring Tony nominee Mary Testa), Normal (starring Tony nominee Barbara Walsh), and Marcy in the Galaxy, as well as a deconstruction of the 1928 play The Patsy (starring OBIE winner David Greenspan). Other credits include the world premiere musical A Thousand Words Come To Mind by Michele Lowe and Scott Richards for New York’s Premieres, Inc., A Streetcar Named Desire for Pennsylvania’s Gretna Theatre, Tony Kushner’s adaptation of The Illusion for Nevada Theatre Company, and Violet (Best Director and Best Musical, Virginia’s Style Magazine) and The Young Man From Atlanta for Richmond’s Barksdale Theatre. For PBS, he directed a musical version of A Tale of Two Cities (filmed in Brighton England), starring Michael York. He is currently developing the new musical The Blonde Streak, by Dan Lipton and David Rossmer for Broadway Across America. Jack received his MFA from The University of Virginia and his BA from The College of William and Mary. He is married to actress Barbara Walsh. About The Pearl Theatre Company Founded in 1984 by a small troupe of artists in Chelsea, The Pearl has grown into a renowned Off-Broadway company. The Pearl connects audiences to timeless classic plays, while providing an artistic home to theatre professionals, especially its core company of resident actors. As New York’s only classical resident company, The Pearl has produced a body of work encompassing the full breadth of theatre history, from ancient Greek tragedy to contemporary works rooted in the classics. The Pearl has garnered numerous awards, including most recently, a special 2011 Drama Desk Award for “notable productions of classic plays and nurturing a stalwart resident company of actors.” In October 2012, The Pearl celebrated the opening its first permanent home, located at 555 West 42nd Street.

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