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THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE Announces Casting and New Dates at Second Stage Theatre

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 09:28 am EDT 03/10/14

SECOND STAGE THEATRE ANNOUNCES COMPLETE CASTING FOR Jon Robin Baitz's THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE Directed by Trip Cullman HALLEY FEIFFER, DANIEL ERIC GOLD, CARTER HUDSON, JOHN NOBLE, CHARLAYNE WOODARD * * * * * * * * Previews Begin Thursday, April 10 Opening Sunday, April 27 March 10, 2014 - Currently celebrating its 35th Anniversary Season, Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) has announced complete casting and new performance dates for its upcoming production of JON ROBIN BAITZ's drama, THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE. The company will feature HALLEY FEIFFER (2ST's suburbia, The House of Blue Leaves), DANIEL ERIC GOLD (2ST's subUrbia, Ugly Betty) CARTER HUDSON (The Whipping Man), JOHN NOBLE (TV's Fringe and Sleepy Hollow), and CHARLAYNE WOODARD (2ST's Sorrows and Rejoicings, Ain't Misbehavin'). THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE will feature scenic design by Anna Louizos, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Peter Kaczorowski and sound design by Jill BC Du Boff. The production stage manager is Lori-Ann Zepp. Directed by TRIP CULLMAN, THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE will now begin preview performances on Thursday, April 10 and officially open on Sunday, April 27. Tickets are available through 2ST.com or by calling the box office at 212-246-4422. John Noble is appearing with the permission of Actors' Equity Association. Acclaimed playwright JON ROBIN BAITZ (Other Desert Cities) made his New York playwriting debut at Second Stage Theatre in 1988 with his play, The Film Society, starring Nathan Lane, Laila Robins, and Daniel Gerroll. His prolific career also includes the plays Three Hotels, A Fair Country, Mizlansy/Zilinsky or "Schmucks," Ten Unknowns, and The Paris Letter. Director TRIP CULLMAN returns to Second Stage Theatre where he staged the critically lauded productions of Bachelorette; Lonely, I'm Not; Swimming in the Shallows; and Some Men. Other directing credits include Choir Boy, Murder Ballad, Assistance, and The Drunken City, among others. From the acclaimed playwright of Other Desert Cities, comes a story of a family bound by a proud past but facing an uncertain future. Isaac Geldhart, the volatile and brilliant patriarch of his family publishing house, is stubbornly holding on to his place at the head of the company while his three children try to convince him to publish a desperately needed best-seller. Faced with a changing literary landscape and potential takeover of the company, the Geldhart children must either come to terms with their father and band together or break apart and forfeit the legacy he risked everything to build. Articulate and blessed with a lifesaving and cutting sense of humor, Isaac fights like a man with nothing to lose. The original production of The Substance of Fire premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 1991 in a production directed by Daniel Sullivan and starring Ron Rifkin and Sarah Jessica Parker. It subsequently transferred to Lincoln Center's Mitzi Newhouse Theatre and was also made into a 1996 film. For subscription, group, or single ticket information, please call the Second Stage Box Office at 212-246-4422 or visit the company's website, www.2ST.com. All performances are staged at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theatre, 305 West 43rd Street (just west of Eighth Avenue). * * * * * * ABOUT THE COMPANY HALLEY FEIFFER returns to Second Stage Theatre where she has appeared in subUrbia, Election Day, and Some Americans Abroad. She has appeared on Broadway in The House of Blue Leaves (Theatre World Award), and off-Broadway in Women or Nothing (Atlantic), Medieval Play (Signature), Tigers Be Still (Roundabout), and Still Life (MCC). Her film and television credits include You Can Count on Me, The Squid and the Whale, Margot at the Wedding, He's Way More Famous Than You (which she also co-wrote), and HBO's Bored to Death. Her plays, How To Make Friends and Then Kill Them, recently premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. DANIEL ERIC GOLD returns for his third production at Second Stage Theatre after appearing in Eric Bogosian's subUrbia and Carly Mensch's Len, Asleep in Vinyl. Other Off Broadway credits include The Paris Letter (Roundabout Theatre Company), Small Tragedy (Playwrights Horizons - OBIE award, Lortel nomination), cagelove (Rattlestick Theatre), This Thing of Darkness (Atlantic Theater Company), and Beautiful Thing (Cherry Lane Theatre). Regional credits include Captors (Huntington Theatre), The Singing Forest and Loot (Intiman Theatre), Dealer's Choice (Victory Gardens), Indiscretions (Organic Theater), and Henry V (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). He has appeared in the films Last Night; Hello, I Must Be Going; Taking Woodstock; Charlie Wilson's War; Definitely, Maybe; Café; Birds of America; and Christmas with Holly and Hacker (upcoming). Daniel also appeared for two seasons as Matt Hartley on ABC's Ugly Betty. CARTER HUDSON's theatre credits include The Whipping Man, The Chosen (both at Portland Center Stage); Mai Dang Lao (JAW New Play Festival); Empire Comics Presents . . . (Strangemen & Co.); The Boogyman Thumbs A-1-A and The Three Sisters (both with Glass Bandits); and '68 (workshop with LAByrinth Theater Company). His television credits include A Crime to Remember (Discovery ID). He is a founding member of Glass Bandits Theater Company. JOHN NOBLE is well known to TV audiences for his performance as Dr. Walter Bishop on JJ Abrams' cult TV show, Fringe, for which he won the 2011 Critics' Choice Television Award and the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama. He is also currently a series regular on the popular Fox show, Sleepy Hollow. He was Artistic Director of the Stage Company of South Australia for ten years. He directed David Williamson's Sons of Cain in London's West End, and acted in an award winning production of Rob George's Errol Flynn's Great Big Adventure Book for Boys at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Other highlights of John's stage career include producing over 70 new Australian plays, 240 performances of Ron Blair's one man play The Christian Brothers, and directing the enormously successful, Percy and Rose, by Rob George for the 1982 Adelaide Festival of Arts and its subsequent national tour. In addition to many TV roles in his native Australia, he has appeared on 24, The Unit, Journeyman, and The Good Wife, as well as "Denethor" in The Lord of the Rings films, Return of the King and The Two Towers. CHARLAYNE WOODARD appeared at Second Stage Theatre in Athol Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings. Other recent acting credits include The Witch of Edmonton (Obie Award); In The Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks (Obie Award); Fabulation by Lynn Nottage; and Stunning by David Adjmi. Recent regional credits include Taming of the Shrew (Katherine) at Shakespeare Theatre Company and A Midsummer Night's Dream at The La Jolla Playhouse. On Broadway, she was in the original company of Ain't Misbehavin', for which she received Tony Award and Drama Desk nominations. JON ROBIN BAITZ's (Playwright) plays include Other Desert Cities (Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2012, Tony Nominee, Drama League Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), The Film Society, The End Of The Day, Three Hotels, A Fair Country (Pulitzer Prize finalist 1996), Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Ten Unknowns, and The Paris Letter, as well as a version of Hedda Gabler (Broadway, 2001). He created Brothers & Sisters, the TV series which ran for five seasons. Other TV work includes PBS's version of Three Hotels, for which he won the Humanitas Award, and episodes of West Wing and Alias. He is the author of two screenplays; the film script for The Substance of Fire (1996), and People I Know (2002). He is a founding member of Naked Angels Theatre Company and is on the faculty of the MFA program at The New School for Drama, where he is Artistic Director of the BFA division. He is also a visiting professor at USC's Master of Professional Writing program. TRIP CULLMAN's (Director) New York credits include Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy (MTC), Julia Jordan and Juliana Nash's Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square Theater), Paul Weitz's Lonely, I'm Not (Second Stage), Leslye Headland's Assistance (Playwrights Horizons), Adam Bock's A Small Fire (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nom.), Adam Rapp's The Hallway Trilogy: Nursing (Rattlestick), Headland's Bachelorette (Second Stage), McNally's Some Men (Second Stage), Bert V. Royal's Dog Sees God (The Century Center), Bock's The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons), Weitz's Roulette (EST), Jonathan Tolins's The Last Sunday In June (Rattlestick and Century Center), Bock's Swimming In The Shallows (Second Stage), Gina Gionfriddo's U.S. Drag (stageFARM), and several productions with The Play Company. Select regional: John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation (Old Globe), Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party (South Coast Rep), McNally's Unusual Acts of Devotion (La Jolla Playhouse), Christopher Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation (Bay Street Theater), Bess Wohl's Touched (Williamstown Theater Festival), McCraney's Choir Boy (Alliance Theater). * * * * * * * * THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE will be performed from Thursday, April 10, through Sunday, May 24 on the following schedule: Tuesday at 7:00pm, Wednesday - Saturday at 8:00pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00pm and Sunday at 3:00pm. The following exceptions will be made to the regular performance schedule: The performances on Sunday, April 13 will be at 2:00pm and 7:00pm. There will be no 2:00pm performance on Wednesday, April 16. The performances on Sunday, April 20 will be at 2:00pm and 7:00pm. The performance on Sunday, April 27 (opening night) will be at 6:30pm. All weeknight performances the week beginning May 5 will be at 7:00pm. Tickets are $75 and may be purchased by phoning 212-246-4422 or online at www.2ST.com. $30 UNDER 30 YOUTH ADVANCE TICKETS AVAILABLE - patrons age 30 and under may purchase a limited number of specially-priced $30 tickets in advance. Proof of age must be shown at the box office. Group tickets are available at a discount by phoning 212-246-4422. Box-office hours are Monday, 10:00am - 6:00pm, Tuesday 10:00am - 7:00pm, Wednesday through Saturday, 10:00am to 8:00pm, and Sunday, 10:00am to 3:00pm. * * * * * * * * ABOUT SECOND STAGE THEATRE Founded in 1979 under the leadership of Artistic Director Carole Rothman, SECOND STAGE THEATRE produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America's best contemporary theatre, including Tiny Alice and Peter and Jerry by Edward Albee; The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry; The Little Dog Laughed by Douglas Carter Beane; Little Murders by Jules Feiffer; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin; A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller; Afterbirth: Kathy & Mo's Greatest Hits by Mo Gaffney and Kathy Najimy; Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo; Painting Churches and Coastal Disturbances by Tina Howe; Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants and On the Stem by Ricky Jay; Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey; Living Out by Lisa Loomer; This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan; Some Men by Terrence McNally; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage; eurydice by Sarah Ruhl; Everyday Rapture by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott; Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deavere Smith; Saturday Night by Stephen Sondheim; Crowns by Regina Taylor; Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein; Spoils of War by Michael Weller; Before It Hits Home, Jar the Floor and Birdie Blue by Cheryl L. West; Jitney by August Wilson; Lemon Sky, Serenading Louie and Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson; and Metamorphoses and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci by Mary Zimmerman. The company's more than 130 citations include the 2010 Pulitzer prize for Next to Normal, the 2009 Tony Awards for Best Score, Best Orchestrations, and Best Actress in a Musical (Alice Ripley) for Next to Normal, the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play (Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed), 2005 Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical (Rachel Sheinkin, ...Spelling Bee) and Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Dan Fogler, ...Spelling Bee), 2002 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play (Mary Zimmerman for Metamorphoses), the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, 27 Obie Awards, six Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Clarence Derwent Awards, 12 Drama Desk Awards, nine Theatre World Awards, 14 Lucille Lortel Awards, the NY Drama Critics Circle Award and 15 AUDELCO Awards. In 1999, Second Stage Theatre opened The Tony Kiser Theatre, its state-of-the-art, 296-seat theatre, designed by renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. In 2002, Second Stage launched "Second Stage Theatre Uptown" series to showcase the work of up and coming artists at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. The Theatre supports artists through several programs that include residencies, fellowships and commissions, and engages students and community members through education and outreach programs. SECOND STAGE THEATRE AT THE HELEN HAYES Second Stage Theatre has acquired the right to purchase the historic Helen Hayes Theatre, located at 240 W. 44th Street. With this new home, Second Stage will be the only theatre company on Broadway dedicated exclusively to the development and presentation of contemporary American theatrical productions. Second Stage will also become one of only four non-profit theatre companies that own and operate theatres on Broadway. The company will continue to lease and operate their original theatres on the city's Upper West Side and in Midtown Manhattan. For more information, please visit www.2ST.com

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