| Roundabout announces Debra Messing in BIRTHDAY CANDLES on Broadway | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 04:12 pm EDT 06/17/19 | |
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| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY Announces Emmy Award winner DEBRA MESSING To Star inthe New York Premiere of BIRTHDAY CANDLES By NOAH HAIDLE Directed by VIVIENNE BENESCH Previews begin April 2, 2020 Official opening April 21, 2020 Limited engagement through June 21, 2020 on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director/CEO) announces the New York premiere of Birthday Candles, marking the Broadway debut of playwright Noah Haidle, starring Emmy Award winner Debra Messing, directed by Vivienne Benesch. An award-winning television star, Ms. Messingwas last seen on Broadway in John Patrick Shanley's play Outside Mullingar opposite Brían F. O'Byrne. Birthday Candles will begin preview performances on Thursday, April 2 and open officially on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. This is a limited engagement through Sunday, June 21, 2020 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). Debra Messing (Will & Grace) returns to the stage as Ernestine Ashworth, who spends her 17th birthday agonizing over her insignificance in the universe. Soon enough, it’s her 18th birthday. Even sooner, her 41st. Her 70th. Her 101st. Five generations, dozens of goldfish, an infinity of dreams, one cake baked over a century. What makes a lifetime…into a life? A writer of "freewheeling ambition" (Charles Isherwood, The New York Times), Noah Haidle makes his Broadway debut with a poignant new play as fearless in scope as it is tremendous in heart. Roundabout is thrilled to present a new Noah Haidle play following their collaboration on his black comedy Mr. Marmalade (2005) starring Mamie Gummer and Michael C. Hall. Birthday Candles was commissioned and previously produced by Detroit Public Theatre in the spring of 2018 and received the first 2019 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award citation. Ms. Benesch is the Producing Artistic Director of PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, NC and, as an actress, was seen in Roundabout’s 2004 production of Arthur Miller’s After the Fall. The remaining cast members and design team will be announced soon. TICKET INFORMATION: Birthday Candlesis first made available to subscribers and donors. Whether you are interested in the best value or VIP experiences, Roundabout has a package option for you. Visit roundabouttheatre.org or call 212-719-1300 for more info. Sign up for Roundabout’s email club at roundabouttheatre.org. PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Birthday Candles willplay Tuesday through Saturday evening at 8:00PM with Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2:00PM and Sunday matinees at 3:00PM. Roundabout gratefully acknowledges the Roundabout Leaders for New Works: Alec Baldwin, James Costa and John Archibald, Linda L. D’Onofrio, Peggy and Mark Ellis, the Howard Gilman Foundation, Jodi Glucksman, Sylvia Golden, Judith and Douglas Krupp, K. Myers, Katheryn Patterson and Tom Kempner, the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater, Ira Pittelman, Laura S. Rodgers, Mary Solomon, Lauren and Danny Stein, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, and The Tow Foundation. BIOGRAPHIES: DEBRA MESSING (Ernestine). Debra Messing is best known for her role on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated comedy series Will & Grace.In the Fall of 2017, Messing reprised her role as Grace Adler after 11 years on NBC’s revival of Will & Grace alongside the entire original creative team, and currently in its second season. The first reprised season of Will & Grace premiered on Thursday, September 28, 2017 to more than 10 million viewers, prompting an early Season 2 and Season 3 pickup. Recently, Messing has been nominated for a 2019 Golden Globe Award in the category of “Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series – Musical or Comedy,” as well as a 2019 Critics’ Choice Award in the category of “Best Actress in a Comedy Series” on behalf of her role. Messing has won an Emmy Award and received an additional 4 Emmy nominations, as well as a collective total of 7 Golden Globe Award nominations for her role as Grace Adler. Recently, Messing completed production opposite David Cross on “The Dark Divide.” Last year, Messing starred opposite John Cho in the feature film thriller, “Searching." The film, directed by Aneesh Chaganty, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize and was subsequently acquired by Sony Pictures for $5 million. The film was released in theaters on August 24, 2018. In 2017, Messing starred in ABC’s three-hour remake of Dirty Dancing, as Marjorie Houseman. Dirty Dancing aired on May 24, 2017. Other TV credits include starring in the NBC series The Mysteries of Laura, for two seasons. In 2012 and 2013, Messing starred as Julia Houston in NBC’s Smash, a musical drama about the creation of a new Broadway show. In 2007, Messing starred in the successful acclaimed miniseries, The Starter Wife, for the USA Network, which then returned as a regular series in 2008. Messing received an Emmy nomination and 2 Golden Globe nominations for her performance as Molly Kagan. In 2014, Messing made her own Broadway debut in the Tony Award-nominated production of John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar. Other theater credits include Donald Marguiles’ Pulitzer Prize finalist Collected Stories, and Paul Rudnick's Off-Broadway play The Naked Truth. Messing’s film work includes the box office hit Along Came Polly and The Wedding Date. Messing starred in The Women and the family comedy, Nothing Like The Holidays. She also co-starred in Woody Allen’s Hollywood Ending, and The Mothman Prophecies. Messing won a Best Featured Actress Award for her work in the 2015 Indie drama Like Sunday Like Rain. Messing is the Global Health Ambassador for Population Services International (PSI) focusing on HIV/AIDS. She has traveled extensively in Africa in this role and in 2010 testified before the House Foreign Affairs sub-committee on Africa and Global Health. She was also a key speaker at the 2012 AIDS conference in DC. Other charities Messing supports include HRC (Human Rights Campaign), Everytown for Gun Safety, and Joyful Heart Foundation. She was honored with The Trevor Life Award for her contributions to the LGBT community. Messing attended Brandeis University and received her MFA from NYU. She resides in New York. NOAH HAIDLE (Playwright). Noah Haidle is a playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced in New York at Roundabout, Lincoln Center, MCC, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre. Regionally, his plays have been produced at the Goodman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Huntington, Long Wharf, Woolly Mammoth, Williamstown, and The Detroit Public Theatre. His most recent play Earthside, will premiere in February 2020 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart in Germany. Internationally, Haidle’s plays have also been produced in Mexico, Sweden, New Zealand, Norway, Austria, Serbia, and Denmark. His play The Homemaker, premiered at the Staatstheater Hannover and won best foreign play of 2015 as voted by German theater critics. Smokefall, named the best play of 2014 by the Chicago Tribune, opened off-Broadway in 2016 starring Zachary Quinto. Stand Up Guys, his first produced screenplay, starred Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin and featured the Golden Globe nominated song Not Running Anymore, written by Jon Bon Jovi. For the screen, Haidle also wrote on the Golden Globe nominated television show Kidding, starring Jim Carrey and directed by Michel Gondry. His plays are published by Suhrkamp in Berlin, Nordiska in Copenhagen, Methuen in London, and in New York by Dramatists Play Service and Overlook Press. He is the recipient of three Lincoln Center Le Compte Du Nuoy Awards, a Helen Merrill Award, the Claire Tow Award, and an NEA/TCG theatre residency grant. Mr. Haidle has taught playwrighting at Princeton University, The Kennedy Center, and in Kenya and Uganda as part of The Sundance Theatre Institute. For the 2017-18 season, he was playwright in residence at the National Theater of Mannheim, Germany, a position first held by Friedrich Schiller in 1785. Haidle sits on the board of the Detroit Public Theatre, where Birthday Candles premiered in 2018. The play won a citation from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award. He is a graduate of Princeton and Juilliard and lives in Los Angeles with his lovely wife and their dog named Fun. VIVIENNE BENESCH (Director). As a director, producer, educator, and an OBIE winning actor (Lee Blessing’s Going to St. Ives) , Vivienne Benesch has had the great fortune to collaborate with exceptional theater artists of many generations on all sides of the table. The 2017 recipient of the Zelda Fichandler Award given by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, Vivienne is currently the Producing Artistic Director of PlayMakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. At PlayMakers, she has directed acclaimed productions of Brecht’s Life of Galileo, Mike Wiley and Laurelyn Dossett’s Leaving Eden (world premiere), Molly Smith Metzler’s The May Queen, Deborah Salem Smith’s Love Alone, John Logan’s RED, Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room and Libby Appel’s adaptation of Three Sisters. From 2005 to 2016 she was the Artistic Director of the renowned Chautauqua Theater Company and Conservatory, presiding over the company’s transformation into one of the best summer theatres and most competitive summer training programs in the country. At Chautauqua she directed over twenty productions including the world premiere of Metzler’s The May Queen and workshop productions of Zayd Dohrn’s The Profane and Sick, Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles, Michael Golamco’s Build, Kate Fodor’s Rx, and Anna Ziegler’s An Incident.Vivienne has also directed for the Folger Theatre, Detroit Public Theater, Trinity Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and extensively for the Juilliard Drama Division. As an actress, Ms. Benesch has worked on and Off-Broadway, in film and television and at many of the country's most celebrated theaters. She made her Broadway acting debut at the Roundabout in 1997 with Terrence Rattigan’s Deep Blue Sea and returned in 2004 in Arthur Miller’s After The Fall. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program where she had the great fortune to study under Zelda Fichandler and Ron Van Lieu. She has served as a faculty member at NYU, Juilliard, Trinity-Brown and UNC Chapel Hill’s Professional Actor Training Program. Roundabout Theatre Company celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds for the future. A not-for-profit company, Roundabout fulfills that mission by producing familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals; discovering and supporting talented playwrights; reducing the barriers that can inhibit theatergoing; collaborating with a diverse team of artists; building educational experiences; and archiving over five decades of production history. Roundabout Theatre Company presents a variety of plays, musicals and new works on its five stages: Broadway’s American Airlines Theatre, Studio 54 and Stephen Sondheim Theatre, and Off-Broadway’s Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre. American Airlines is the official airline of Roundabout Theatre Company. Roundabout productions are supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Roundabout 2018-19 Broadway season includes Kiss Me, Kate, directed by Scott Ellis, starring Kelli O’Hara, Will Chase and Corbin Bleu, and Arthur Miller’s All My Sons starring Annette Bening, Tracy Letts and Benjamin Walker, directed by Jack O’Brien. Off-Broadway in 2018-2019, Roundabout’s season continues with Toni Stone by Lydia R. Diamond, directed by Pam MacKinnon; and Something Clean by Selina Fillinger, directed by Margot Bordelon at Roundabout Underground. Roundabout’s 2019-2020 Broadway season will include The Rose Tattoo, by Tennessee Williams, starring Marisa Tomei, directed by Trip Cullman; Birthday Candles, by Noah Haidle, starring Debra Messing, directed by Vivienne Benesch. In 2019-2020, Roundabout will present five new works Off-Broadway, including: Scotland, PA a new musical by Michael Mitnick and Adam Gwon,directed by Lonny Price; 72 Miles to Go… by Hilary Bettis; …what the end will be by Jiréh Breon Holder, directed by Margot Bordelon; Darling Grenadine, book, music & lyrics by Daniel Zaitchik, directed and choregraphed by Michael Berresse; and Exception to the Rule by Dave Harris, directed by Miranda Haymon. www.roundabouttheatre.org |
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