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POOR BEHAVIOR by Theresa Rebeck opens Sunday, 8/17 at Primary Stages at The Duke on 42nd Street

Posted by:	Official_Press_Release 02:13 pm EDT 08/15/14

Primary Stages (Casey Childs, Founder & Executive Producer; Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Elliot Fox, Managing Director) in association with Jamie deRoy and Barry Feirstein, present the New York premiere of Poor Behavior, a new comedy by Theresa Rebeck (Seminar, Mauritius, The Understudy, creator of NBC's "Smash"). Poor Behavior plays a limited engagement through September 7 at Primary Stages at The Duke on 42nd Street - a NEW 42ND STREET® project (229 West 42nd Street). Opening night is Sunday, August 17 at 7PM. Evan Cabnet (The Model Apartment, A Kid Like Jake) will direct the company featuring Heidi Armbruster (Disgraced, My Man is a Loser), Brian Avers (The Explorers Club, The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Jeff Biehl (Machinal, Master Builder), and Katie Kreisler (Nikolai and the Others, The House of Blue Leaves). With Poor Behavior, Rebeck presents a devilish argument about infidelity and America in this new comedy about two couples spending a not-so-idyllic weekend in the country. Playwright Theresa Rebeck points to the central question that intrigued her, in the writing: What if you made a mistake, years ago, that has destroyed your life, and will continue to destroy your life? Don't you owe it to some higher notion of 'goodness' to fight for your life? "I've gotten a bit antinomian lately," she admits. "I see the rules of behavior in our world as so confusing anymore, who can make head or tail of them? So what responsibility do people have to each other? Is the idea of pursuing what you want, regardless of the cost to others, a healthy or destructive way to live? Or does it need to be judged another way?" Her darkly comedic vision remains compassionate. "I love these people," she admits. "I think they're funny and passionate. I want their lives to be vital." "For me, what makes the play so immediate and "of the moment' is the search for a moral compass, for some common ground on which to agree on how to behave," says director Evan Cabnet. "If we as a society no longer agree to some sort of baseline moral or ethic code, then how do we know what is right and wrong, good or bad, appropriate or inappropriate? Everyone is left to their own devices, with damaging results." Poor Behavior features a scenic design by Lauren Helpern, costume design by Jessica Pabst, lighting design by Jason Lyons, sound design by Jill BC Du Boff, and casting by Stephanie Klapper Casting. Poor Behavior runs July 29 - September 7. Opening night is Sunday, August 17 at 7PM. LISTINGS INFORMATION: Poor Behavior plays a limited engagement July 29- September 7 at The Duke on 42nd Street - a NEW 42ND STREET® project. (229 West 42nd Street, between 7th and 8th avenues). Performances are Tuesday-Thurs 7pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 2&8pm, Sun 3pm. There is an added performance Wednesday, August 20 at 2pm. Tickets for Poor Behavior are$70 andcan be purchased online at PrimaryStages.org or at Dukeon42.org, by phone at 646-223-3010, or at the box office. Regular box office hours at The Duke on 42nd Street are: Tues-Fri 4pm- 7pm; Saturday 12pm- 6pm. Box Office hours are extended on performance days. Group Tickets (10+) are $49 each for all performances and available by calling (212) 840-9705, ext. 204. SUBSCRIBE TO THE PRIMARY STAGES 30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON: 3-play subscriptions for the Primary Stages 2014/15 season range from $105 to $135. Flex Pass subscriptions will also now be offered and begin at $45 per ticket (with a minimum purchase of 4 Flex Pass tickets for the season.) Subscription packages can be purchased by visiting PrimaryStages.org or by calling Ticket Central at 212.279.4200. ABOUT THE ARTISTS HEIDI ARMBRUSTER (Maureen). Broadway: Time Stands Still. New York Theater: LCT3(Disgraced) (Pulitzer Prize), The Atlantic (Sea of Tranquility), Keen Company (Drama League Nomination for Tea and Sympathy), The Mint (The Fifth Column, Love Goes To Press, Susan and God). Red Bull (Duchess of Malfi), New Georges (Hillary), Playwright's Realm (Dov and Ali). Extensive regional credits including, New York Stage and Film, Westport Country Playhouse, Barrington Stage Company, The Guthrie, American Conservatory Theater,Seattle Repertory, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore Center Stage, George Street. Film and TV: My Man Is A Loser with John Stamos, Michael Clayton, The Northern Kingdom, The Smurfs, "Louie," "The Blacklist," "Black Box," "30 Rock," "666 Park Ave.," "Unforgettable," "Law and Order SVU," "Law and Order." MFA fromACT (ACT's 2013 Rising Star Award recipient). BRIAN AVERS (Ian). Broadway: Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll, Martin McDonagh's Lieutenant of Inishmore. Other stage favorites: King Lear (as Edgar, with Kevin Kline), Becky Shaw (SCR), Completeness (Playwrights), and most recently, The Explorer's Club at MTC. Film/TV includes: Gigantic, Julie & Julia, "Castle", "The Closer", and recurring roles on "Medium", "NCIS" and "NCIS: Los Angeles". His first feature as director, The Weekend, recently released. MFA: NYU. JEFF BIEHL (Peter). Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory's adaptation of Ibsen's Master Builder, now a Jonathan Demme film. Broadway: Machinal (Roundabout). Recent Off-Broadway: Issac's Eye (EST), Burning (The New Group). Other NY: Ken Urban's The Awake (Kef Productions), Thomas Bradshaw's Lecture On The Blues (Whitney Museum) and Satan in Hell House directed by Alex Timbers. Regional: Three Sisters (A.R.T. and Edinburgh International Festival), also Shakespeare Theatre, South Coast Rep, Westport and Long Wharf. TV: "Southland," several appearances on all the "Law & Order's." Training: Juilliard KATIE KREISLER (Ella). Broadway: The House of Blue Leaves, Noises Off. Off Broadway: Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater), Our House (Playwrights Horizons), Psych (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Vengeance is the Lord's (Huntington Theater), Cherry Sisters Revisted (Humana Festival), Absalom (Humana Festival). Film: Melinda and Melinda, The Heights, Approaching Union Square, The Disconnected (upcoming), The Experimenter (upcoming). Television: "The Job," "Girlfriends," "Without A Trace," "Law and Order," "Medium," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," "The Good Wife." Training: The Juilliard School. THERESA REBECK (Playwright).New York productions: Dead Accounts, Seminar, The Understudy, Mauritius, The Scene, The Water's Edge, Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, Spike Heels, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, View of the Dome, and Omnium Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist). Publications: Collected Plays Volumes I, II and III, Free Fire Zone, all with Smith & Kraus, and two novels, Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms With a View, with Random House/Shaye Areheart Books. Film: Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing Charlie Barker (adapted from her play The Scene). Awards include the Writer's Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama and a Peabody Award for her work on "NYPD Blue," the National Theatre Conference Award, the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, the Athena Film Festival Award, an Alex Award, a Lilly Award and in 2011 she was named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek. She is the creator of the NBC drama, "Smash." EVAN CABNET (Director). Recent credits: Donald Margulies' The Model Apartment (Primary Stages), A Kid Like Jake (Lincoln Center Theater), Christopher Shinn's Teddy Ferrara (Goodman, Chicago), David West Read's The Performers (Broadway, Longacre Theater) and The Dream of the Burning Boy (Roundabout Underground), All-American (LCT3), Warrior Class (Second Stage Uptown), Outside People (Vineyard/Naked Angels), Oohrah! (Atlantic Theater Co.), Elizabeth Meriwether's Oliver Parker! (stageFARM) and The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels). He is an Associate Artists with the Roundabout Theater Company, and a Performance Consultant for the Metropolitan Opera. Upcoming: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Gloria (Vineyard). * * * PRIMARY STAGES is an Off-Broadway theater company dedicated to inspiring, supporting, and sharing the art of playwriting. We operate on the strongly held belief that the future of American theater relies on nurturing playwrights and giving them the artistic support needed to create new work. Since our founding in 1984, we have produced more than 120 new plays, including Donald Margulies' The Model Apartment (1995 premiere and 2013 revival); David Ives' All in the Timing (original 1993 production and 2013 revival); Kate Fodor's Rx; Charles Busch's The Tribute Artist and Olive and the Bitter Herbs; A.R. Gurney's Black Tie; Horton Foote's Harrison, TX and Dividing the Estate (Two 2009 Tony Award®nominations); Brooke Berman's Hunting and Gathering (one of New York Magazine's Top TenPlays of 2008); Terrence McNally's Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams (starring Nathan Lane andMarian Seldes) and The Stendhal Syndrome (featuring Isabella Rossellini and RichardThomas); Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter's In the Continuum (which went on to tour the U.S., Africa, and Scotland); and Conor McPherson's St. Nicholas (which marked the playwright's U.S. debut). In 2008, Primary Stages was honored with the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work, which encompasses much more than the plays we produce for the stage. Primary Stages supports playwrights and develops new works through commissions, workshops, readings, and our education and training programs: The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA), and the Fordham/Primary Stages MFA in Playwriting. Through these programs, Primary Stages advocates for our artists, helping them make important-and often transformative-connections within the theater community. About The New 42nd Street Building on the foundation of seven historic theaters, The New 42nd Street leads the dynamic evolution of the reinvented 42nd Street, cultivating a unique New York City cultural and entertainment destination through its three projects: The New Victory Theater, a performing arts theater devoted to kids and families; the NEW 42ND STREET Studios, a state-of-the-art, 10-story performing arts complex for rehearsal, performance and arts administration; and The Duke on 42nd Street, an intimate black-box theater. An independent, nonprofit organization, The New 42nd Street is committed to the transformational power of the arts. About The Duke on 42nd Street The Duke on 42nd Street is an intimate black-box theater available for rental to both domestic and international nonprofit and commercial organizations. Featuring a gallery along all four walls and a custom-built, state-of-the-art seating system, the flexible-use space offers full light, sound and support systems in various configurations. The Duke on 42nd Street is a fully-staffed, full service facility in the heart of the theater district. Many performing arts companies have called the space their home, including The Royal Court Theatre, Transport Group, Theatre for a New Audience, Lincoln Center Theater, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Armitage Gone! Dance, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Naked Angels, Classical Theater of Harlem, Playwrights Horizons, 92nd Street Y's Harkness Dance Project, The NYC Tap Festival and Lincoln Center Great Performers and the National Theater of Great Britain.

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