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Signature Theatre’s THE OPEN HOUSE Announces Full Casting & $25 Tickets Now on Sale

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 01:33 pm EST 01/15/14

CASTING ANNOUNCED & $25 TICKETS NOW ON SALE FOR SIGNATURE THEATRE’S WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF THE OPEN HOUSE By WILL ENO Directed by OLIVER BUTLER PERFORMANCES BEGIN FEBRUARY 11; OPENING NIGHT IS MARCH 3 IN THE ROMULUS LINNEY COURTYARD THEATRE AT THE PERSHING SQUARE SIGNATURE CENTER TICKETS ON SALE AT WWW.SIGNATURETHEATRE.ORG Signature Theatre (James Houghton, Founding Artistic Director; Erika Mallin, Executive Director) is pleased to announce casting is confirmed and tickets are now on sale for the world premiere of THE OPEN HOUSE, by Will Eno and directed by Oliver Butler. All tickets for the initial run of the production are $25 as part of the Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access. The production runs February 11 through March 23, 2014 with a March 3 opening night in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). The cast includes Hannah Bos (Blood Play, Buddy Cop 2), Michael Countryman (Wit, Dancing at Lughnasa), Peter Friedman (The Great God Pan, Twelve Angry Men), Danny McCarthy (Grace, “Killing Kennedy”), and Carolyn McCormick (“Law & Order”). People have been born into families since people started getting born at all. Playwrights have been trying to write Family Plays for a long time, too. And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty and inheritance and responsibility. They try to answer the question, “Can things really change?” People have been trying nobly for years and years to have plays solve in two hours what hasn't been solved in many lifetimes. This has to stop. THE OPEN HOUSE is an hour and twenty minutes, with no intermission. The design team includes Antje Ellermann (Set Design), Bobby Frederick Tilley II (Costume Design), David Lander (Lighting Design), and M.L. Dogg (Sound Design). Donald Fried is the Production Stage Manager. Casting by TELSEY + COMPANY. To purchase tickets for all Signature productions, call the Signature Theatre Box Office (212-244-7529) or visit signaturetheatre.org. Tickets to the initial runs of all Signature productions at The Pershing Square Signature Center are $25, part of the groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access, a program that guarantees affordable and accessible tickets to every Signature production through 2031. Serving as a model for theatres and performing arts organizations across the country, the Initiative was founded in 2005 and is made possible by lead partner The Pershing Square Foundation. Additional support provided by Founding Sponsor Time Warner Inc., Margot Adams, the Ford Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. 2013-2014 SEASON OVERVIEW RESIDENCY ONE – DAVID HENRY HWANG SERIES KUNG FU WORLD PREMIERE Directed by Leigh Silverman February 4 – March 16, 2014 The Irene Diamond Stage Tickets on Sale Now An exhilarating portrait of international icon Bruce Lee's journey from troubled Hong Kong youth to martial arts legend, Kung Fu blends dance, Chinese opera, martial arts and drama into a bold new theatrical form. This World Premiere production follows Lee in America as he struggles to prove himself as a fighter, a husband, a father, and a man. Cole Horibe (“So You Think You Can Dance”) will play the role of Bruce Lee. LEGACY PROGRAM THE OLD FRIENDS WORLD PREMIERE By Horton Foote Directed by Michael Wilson The Irene Diamond Stage Final performance played on October 20, 2013. August Wilson’s HOW I LEARNED WHAT I LEARNED NEW YORK PREMIERE Co-conceived with and directed by Todd Kreidler The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre In collaboration with and featuring Ruben Santiago-Hudson Final performance played on December 29, 2013 RESIDENCY FIVE stop. reset. WORLD PREMIERE Written and directed by Regina Taylor The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre Final performance played on September 29, 2013. CHÉRI WORLD PREMIERE Conceived, directed and choreographed by Martha Clarke The Irene Diamond Stage Final performance played on December 29, 2013. THE OPEN HOUSE WORLD PREMIERE By Will Eno Directed by Oliver Butler February 11 – March 23, 2014 The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre Tickets on Sale Now People have been born into families since people started getting born at all. Playwrights have been trying to write Family Plays for a long time, too. And typically these plays try to answer endlessly complicated questions of blood and duty and inheritance and responsibility. They try to answer the question, “Can things really change?” People have been trying nobly for years and years to have plays solve in two hours what hasn't been solved in many lifetimes. This has to stop. The Open House is an hour and twenty minutes, with no intermission. APPROPRIATE NEW YORK PREMIERE By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Liesl Tommy February 25 – April 6, 2014 The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre Tickets on sale January 30 The estranged members of the Lafayette clan have returned to Arkansas and their crumbling old plantation home to settle the accounts of their recently deceased patriarch. As they sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and junk, the discovery of a gruesome relic and a surprise visitor send the family into a spiral of crackling confrontations, repressed histories, and regret. Appropriate is a New York premiere by Residency Five playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, winner of the 2013 Sundance Theatre Institute Tennessee Williams Award. Special thanks to the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting Residency Five. About SIGNATURE THEATRE Signature Theatre exists to honor and celebrate the playwright. Founded in 1991 by James Houghton, Signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright’s body of work, and during this journey, the writer is engaged in every aspect of the creative process. By championing in-depth explorations of a playwright’s body of work, Signature delivers an intimate and immersive journey into the playwright’s singular vision. Signature serves its mission through its permanent home at The Pershing Square Signature Center, a three-theatre facility on West 42nd Street designed by Frank Gehry Architects to host Signature’s three distinct playwrights’ residencies and foster a cultural community. At the Center, opened in January 2012, Signature continues its founding Playwright-in-Residence model as Residency One, a first-of-its-kind, intensive exploration of a single writer’s body of work. Residency Five, the only program of its kind, was launched at the Center to support multiple playwrights as they build bodies of work by guaranteeing each writer three productions over a five-year period. The Legacy Program, launched during Signature’s 10th Anniversary, invites writers from both residencies back for productions of premiere or earlier plays. The Pershing Square Signature Center is a major contribution to New York City’s cultural landscape and provides a venue for cultural organizations that supports and encourages collaboration among artists throughout the space. In addition to its three intimate theatres, the Center features a studio theatre, rehearsal studio, and a public café, bar and bookstore. Through the Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access, Signature has also made an unprecedented commitment to making its productions accessible by underwriting the cost of initial run tickets, currently priced at $25, through 2031. Signature has presented entire seasons of the work of Edward Albee, Lee Blessing, Horton Foote, Maria Irene Fornes, Athol Fugard, John Guare, Bill Irwin, Adrienne Kennedy, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Charles Mee, Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Paula Vogel, August Wilson, Lanford Wilson, and a season celebrating the historic Negro Ensemble Company. Signature’s current Residency One playwright is David Henry Hwang; current Residency Five playwrights are Annie Baker, Martha Clarke, Will Eno, Katori Hall, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Kenneth Lonergan, and Regina Taylor; and the current Legacy Playwrights are Horton Foote and August Wilson. Signature, its productions and its resident writers have been recognized with the Pulitzer Prize, Lucille Lortel Awards, Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards, and AUDELCO Awards, among many other distinctions. For more information, please visit signaturetheatre.org.

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