| Playwrights Horizons announces 3rd & final extension for acclaimed hit DANCE NATION | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 05:33 pm EDT 05/22/18 | |
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| PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS ANNOUNCES THIRD EXTENSION FOR THE ACCLAIMED WORLD PREMIERE OF DANCE NATION A NEW PLAY BY OBIE AWARD WINNER CLARE BARRON DIRECTED & CHOREOGRAPHED BY OBIE AWARD WINNER LEE SUNDAY EVANS Production extends a third and FINAL time through Sunday, July 1 Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced a third and final extension for their acclaimed world premiere production of DANCE NATION, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning new play by Obie Award winner Clare Barron (You Got Older, I’ll Never Love Again). Directed and choreographed by Obie Award winner Lee Sunday Evans (Caught, D Deb Debbie Deborah, A Beautiful Day in November…, [Porto]), the play is the fifth production of the theater company’s 2017/2018 Season. Before even opening, and due to popular demand, DANCE NATION had extended from May 27 to June 3. Following an avalanche of rave reviews, the production extended two additional weeks, through Sunday, June 17. It will now extend a third and final time for two additional weeks through Sunday, July 1 at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theater (416 West 42nd Street). The three extensions represent an impressive five additional playing weeks, nearly doubling the length of the original limited engagement. Ben Brantley of The New York Times named DANCE NATION a CRITIC’S PICK, praising it as, “Blazingly original and unsettlingly familiar. The godly, insanely talented Clare Barron conjures the passionate ambivalence of adolescence with such being-there sharpness and poignancy that you’re not sure whether to cringe, cry, or roar with happiness. Directed and choreographed with gloriously rough magic by Lee Sunday Evans, you’re obliged to keep your eyes on the stage and marvel at how close what you see cuts to the bone — your bone.” Adam Feldman of Time Out New York also named it a CRITIC’S PICK and gave it FIVE STARS, hailing it as, “The first can’t-miss new play of the season!” He called it a “Riotous, sensational, and ferociously funny new play! As rendered by the wondrous ensemble cast, under Lee Sunday Evans’s sharp direction, their fierce commitment is at once adorable and scary. DANCE NATION is out for blood.” Sara Holdren in New York Magazine naming it “A brave, visceral, excitingly off-kilter, barbaric play. Angry and sad, brash and funny, DANCE NATION gets at something excruciatingly tender: the burden of modesty on young American women.” And Peter Marks of The Washington Post proclaimed, “I have seen the future, and it is DANCE NATION. Clare Barron’s fresh, funny, and perceptive play gives resonant insights into the lives of American teens not yet fully prepared to relinquish the illusions of childhood.” The “fabulous cast” (Hilton Als, The New Yorker) features Purva Bedi (An Ordinary Muslim, Uncommon Sense, Veil’d), Eboni Booth (After the Blast, Fulfillment Center, The Cider House Rules), Camila Canó-Flaviá (Julius Caesar in London, My Jane), Obie Award winner Ellen Maddow (The Lily’s Revenge, Betty and the Blender, Painted Snake in a Painted Chair), Christina Rouner (Coram Boy, Eternal, Three Tall Women), Drama Desk Award winner Thomas Jay Ryan (The Crucible, In the Next Room, The Temperamentals), Dina Shihabi (regionally in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, “Jack Ryan,” “Daredevil”), Lucy Taylor (Fondly, Collette Richland; The Sound and the Fury; The Select: The Sun Also Rises) and Ikechukwu Ufomadu (Ike at Night, Nightcap by Ike, Ike Night). Beginning Tuesday, June 5, Layla Khosh (Men on Boats at Playwrights) will assume the role of Amina. Dina Shihabi will play her final performance in the role on Sunday, June 3, due to a prior professional commitment. The rest of the original cast will continue in their roles through the final extension date. Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at the Boogie Down Grand Prix in Tampa Bay. But in Clare Barron’s raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity, these young dancers have more than choreography on their minds, because every plié and jeté is a step toward finding themselves, and a fight to unleash their power. The production features scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costume design by Ásta Bennie Hostetter, lighting design by Barbara Samuels and sound design by Brandon Wolcott. Production Stage Manager is Erin Gioia Albrecht. The performance schedule for DANCE NATION is Tuesdays through Fridays at 7:30 PM, Saturdays at 2 & 7:30 PM and Sundays at 2 & 7PM. Single tickets, $59-99, may be purchased online via www.phnyc.org, by phone at (212) 279-4200 (Noon-8pm daily) and in person at the Ticket Central Box Office, 416 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues). Following DANCE NATION, the Playwrights Horizons 2017/2018 Season will conclude with LOG CABIN, the world premiere of a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison, directed by Tony Award and Obie Award winner Pam MacKinnon, featuring Phillip James Brannon, Cindy Cheung, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Ian Harvie, Talene Monahon and Dolly Wells (previews begin June 1). Flex Passes (customizable bundle, $220+) and Memberships ($45 to join, $25 preview tickets) are still available for the remainder of this season. See more at www.phnyc.org. Playwrights Horizons recently announced its 2018/2019 Season, which will feature (in season order): I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU, the New York premiere of a new play written by three-time Tony Award nominee and three-time Obie Award winner Craig Lucas, directed by Tyne Rafaeli, with Sabrina Dennison serving as Director of Artistic Sign Language, featuring Marianna Bassham, Tad Cooley, two-time Obie Award winner Lisa Emery, Theatre World Award winner Russell Harvard, two-time Tony Award nominee Lois Smith and Gameela Wright, and simultaneously performed in American Sign Language by a shadow cast of Deaf actors, including Beth Applebaum, Kalen Feeney, Seth Gore, Dickie Hearts, Amelia Hensley, Anthony Natale and Alexandria Wailes (previews begin August 31, 2018); THE THANKSGIVING PLAY, the world premiere of a new play by Larissa FastHorse, directed by Tony Award nominee Moritz von Stuelpnagel (October 2018); NOURA, the New York premiere of a new play written by and featuring Lucille Lortel Award winner Heather Raffo, directed by Joanna Settle, produced in association with Shakespeare Theatre Company (November 2018); IF PRETTY HURTS UGLY MUST BE A MUHFUCKA, the world premiere of a new play by Tori Sampson, directed by Tony Award nominee and Obie and Lucille Lortel awards winner Liesl Tommy (February 2019); THE PAIN OF MY BELLIGERENCE, the world premiere of a Playwrights Horizons commissioned new play written by and featuring Halley Feiffer, directed by Obie Award winner Trip Cullman (April 2019) and conclude with A STRANGE LOOP, the world premiere of a new musical with book, music and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, directed by Stephen Brackett, with choreography by Raja Feather Kelly, produced in association with Page 73 (May 2019). Season packages for Playwrights Horizons’ 2018/19 season are now on sale. A 6-Show Subscription package for next season ($310, four Mainstage and two Peter Jay Sharp Theater productions) includes discounts on all season productions, priority booking and seating, ticket exchange privileges, parking and dining discounts, and exclusive mailings of Playwrights Horizons Bulletins. Flex Passes (customizable bundle, $220+) and Memberships ($45 to join, $25 preview tickets) are also now on sale. Patron packages start at $1,800. Packages are available at www.phnyc.org. Patron Program Memberships begin at $1,800 (all but $550 is tax-deductible) and include two reserved house seats and personalized concierge service to all six Playwrights Horizons productions, as well as a variety of exclusive benefits including invitations to attend special events with artists, staff and board members. Complete benefits list at www.phnyc.org. Playwrights Horizons’ season productions are generously supported in part by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Playwrights Horizons is supported in part by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In addition, Playwrights Horizons receives major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, the Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and the Time Warner Foundation. www.phnyc.org www.Facebook.com/PlaywrightsHorizons Twitter: @phnyc Instagram: phnyc BIOGRAPHIES Clare Barron (Playwright). Playwrights debut. Plays: You Got Older (Page 73, Steppenwolf, RADA), I’ll Never Love Again (Bushwick Starr), Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb, Woolly Mammoth). Upcoming: Dance Nation at the Almeida Theatre in London. Awards: Obie Award, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Whiting Award, Relentless Award established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at The Vineyard, Page 73 Fellowship. Alum: Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab, Working Farm at SPACE, Youngblood. Studied playwriting at Brooklyn College. Current member of New Dramatists. Clare grew up in Wenatchee, Washington. Thank you to all the artists who helped develop this show. Lee Sunday Evans (Director/Choreographer). Playwrights debut. Recent credits: Miller, Mississippi by Boo Killebrew (Dallas Theatre Center); The Winter’s Tale (The Public); Home, Farmhouse/Whorehouse by Suzanne Bocanegra (BAM); Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner (LCT3); Caught by Christopher Chen (The Play Company); [Porto] by Kate Benson (WP, Bushwick Starr); A Beautiful Day in November… by Kate Benson (Obie, WP, New Georges); All the Roads Home by Jen Silverman (Cincinnati Playhouse); Macbeth (performed by three women, Hudson Valley); Wellesley Girl by Brendan Pelsue (Humana); D Deb Debbie Deborah by Jerry Lieblich (Clubbed Thumb). She creates original ensemble-devised performance work with CollaborationTown. Lee’s work has been presented and developed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Sundance Theatre Festival, CATCH, 59E59, New Ohio, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Culture Project, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Dixon Place, La MaMa. 2017 SDC Breakout Award, Vineyard Theatre’s 2016 Susan Stroman Award. Purva Bedi (Connie). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: An Ordinary Muslim (New York Theatre Workshop), Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theater Project), IDIOT (HERE), Veil’d (WP), Rise of Dorothy Hale (St. Luke’s), There or Here (Hypothetical), East Is East (MTC/New Group). With Target Margin as Associate Artist: Reread Another, Tempest, Second Language, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, Old Comedy, 5 Hysterical Girls Theorem. Film: Sully, Equity, Kumare, Cosmopolitan, Green Card Fever, American Desi. TV: “Person of Interest,” “Madam Secretary,” “Nurse Jackie.” Co-Creator Assembled Identity (HERE). Eboni Booth (Zuzu). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: After the Blast (LCT3), Fulfillment Center (MTC); Sundown, Yellow Moon (Ars Nova/WP); Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73); Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep.); The Cider House Rules (Atlantic). Television: “The Americans,” “Show Me a Hero,” “Daredevil.” Camila Canó-Flaviá (Sofia). Playwrights debut. Regional: Julius Caesar (Shakespeare’s Globe Theater), My Jane (Chester Theatre Company). BFA: Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Layla Khosh (Amina beginning June 5). Playwrights: Men on Boats (co-production with Clubbed Thumb). Selected credits: Bull in a China Shop (LCT3, with director Lee Sunday Evans), Sensuality Party (The New Group), Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theater), Wyoming (Lesser America), Nobody’s Girl (New Jersey Rep), Women (Hollywood Fringe), I Am Gordafarid (Noor Theater), Romeo and Juliet (The Flea). Film: Long Nights Short Mornings. Web: “My Ex is Trending.” Ellen Maddow (Maeve). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: founding member (playwright, composer, performer) of Talking Band. Favorite roles: The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, The Room Sings, The Golden Toad, Betty and the Blenders, Marcellus Shale (La Mama); The Peripherals (Dixon Place), The Lily’s Revenge (HERE). Member of the Open Theater. Obie Award, Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theatre, NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, NEA/TCG Award for Playwrights, alumnus of New Dramatists. talkingband.org Christina Rouner (Vanessa/The Moms). Playwrights debut. Broadway: Coram Boy. Off-Broadway: This Is the Color…, Eternal, House for Sale, Tom Ryan Thinks…, Duchess of Malfi, Halfway Home, Three Tall Women. National tour: The Laramie Project, Three Tall Women. Regional: Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Westport, Guthrie, Baltimore Center Stage, La Jolla, Old Globe, Williamstown, others. Film: Mapplethorpe, Ned Rifle, I Dream Too Much, Taking Chance, Fur, The Skeptic, others. TV: “Blue Bloods,” “Billions,” “The Good Wife,” “Elementary,” “Sex and the City,” “Law & Order,” “Law and Order: SVU,” others. Education: Yale, Juilliard. Thomas Jay Ryan (Dance Teacher Pat). Playwrights debut. Broadway: The Crucible, In the Next Room. He has originated roles in productions of new plays by Sarah Ruhl, Anne Washburn, Jordan Harrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, Lucas Hnath, Will Eno, Dan LeFranc, Richard Foreman, Melissa James Gibson, Craig Lucas, and Ken Urban, among others. Film: many feature films, most prominently the title role in Hal Hartley’s Cannes Festival prize-winning Henry Fool Trilogy. TV: guest starring roles on many series. Awards: Drama Desk and Callaway awards, Drama League and Gemini nominations. Dina Shihabi (Amina through June 3). Playwrights debut. Regional: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Long Wharf). Film: Amira & Sam, David. TV: “Jack Ryan,” “Daredevil,” “Madam Secretary.” MFA: NYU Grad Acting. Lucy Taylor (Ashlee). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Fondly, Collette Richland (ERS, NYTW); The Sound and the Fury (ERS, The Public); Ancient Lives (Half Straddle, The Kitchen); The Select: The Sun Also Rises (ERS, NYTW). Regional: The Town Hall Affair (Wooster Group), The Select: The Sun Also Rises, Gatz (ERS). TV: “Madam Secretary,” “Bull, Horace and Pete,” “Limitless.” Training: VCA (Australia). Thank you Mum and Dad and August and all the babysitters. lucytaylor.org Ikechukwu Ufomadu (Luke). Playwrights debut. Off-Broadway: Ike at Night (The Public/Under the Radar), Nightcap by Ike (Joe’s Pub at The Public), Ike Night (Ars Nova). Regional: The Shipment (Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Warhol Museum), Drums on the Dam (London Institute of Contemporary Art), Vegas Nocturne (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). BFA: NYU. ikehimself.com @ikeminded Playwrights Horizons is a writer’s theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers and lyricists and to the production of their new work. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, the theater company continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. In its 45 years, Playwrights Horizons has presented the work of more than 400 writers and has received numerous awards and honors, including a special 2008 Drama Desk Award for “ongoing support to generations of theater artists and undiminished commitment to producing new work.” Notable productions include six Pulitzer Prize winners – Annie Baker’s The Flick (2013 Obie Award, 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park (2012 Tony Award, Best Play), Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife (2004 Tony Award, Best Play), Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Tony Award, Best Play), Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George – as well as Ms. Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation (three 2010 Obie Awards including Best New American Play); Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit (2013 Obie Award, Best New American Play); Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale (2013 Lortel Award, Best Play); Kirsten Greenidge’s Milk Like Sugar (2012 Obie Award); Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime (2015 Pulitzer finalist); Lucas Hnath’s The Christians (2016 Obie Award, 2016 Outer Critics Circle Award, 2015 Kesselring Prize), Robert O’Hara’s Bootycandy (two 2015 Obie Awards); Max Posner’s The Treasurer, Taylor Mac’s Hir; Danai Gurira’s Familiar, Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a post-electric play, Sarah Ruhl’s Stage Kiss and Dead Man’s Cell Phone; Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn; Dan LeFranc’s The Big Meal; Amy Herzog’s The Great God Pan and After the Revolution; Bathsheba Doran’s Kin; Adam Bock’s A Small Fire; Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I; Melissa James Gibson’s This (2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist); Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie’s Grey Gardens (three 2007 Tony Awards); Craig Lucas’s Prayer For My Enemy and Small Tragedy (2004 Obie Award, Best American Play); Adam Rapp’s Kindness; Lynn Nottage’s Fabulation (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting); Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero; David Greenspan’s She Stoops to Comedy (2003 Obie Award); Kirsten Childs’s The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (2000 Obie Award); Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey’s James Joyce’s The Dead (2000 Tony Award, Best Book); Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins; William Finn’s March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland; Christopher Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You; Richard Nelson’s Goodnight Children Everywhere; Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Once on This Island; Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance of Fire; Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room; A.R. Gurney’s Later Life; Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s Floyd Collins; and Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s Violet. |
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