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F. Murray Abraham, Mary McCann and Joey Slotnick are three of 11 performers for Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere of Ethan Coen's Offices, to play April 15-May 31 at ATC's Linda Gross Theater Off Broadway.
Artistic director Neil Pepe directs the three short plays that make up Offices, a workplace triptych.
According to ATC, "Hiring and firing are antisocial acts. Workplace pressures make for nasty competition. And the work itself can be meaningless and alienating. Accordingly, the three short plays that make up Offices are comedies."
Academy Award winner Ethan Coen ("No Country for Old Men") reteams with Pepe (Broadway's Speed-the-Plow), who staged Coen's sold out 2008 run of Almost an Evening, which had a commercial transfer.
For Offices, the ensemble cast of 11 includes Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham ("Amadeus," Almost an Evening), Daniel Abeles (Behold, the Bowery!), Brennan Brown (Atlantic's Celebration), Aya Cash (From Up Here), John Bedford Lloyd (Some Americans Abroad), Daniel London ("Patch Adams"), Mary McCann (Spring Awakening), Joey Slotnick (Almost an Evening, Lookingglass' Our Town), Greg Stuhr (November), C.J. Wilson (The Voysey Inheritance) and Daniel Yelsky (upcoming film "Meet Monica Velour").
Opening is May 7. Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater is at 336 West 20th Street.
Coen's one-acts collection Almost an Evening in 2008 played at Atlantic Stage 2, the intimate 16th Street space, and then moved to a commercial Off-Broadway run.
Coen has made 14 movies with his brother Joel, including the Academy Award-winning films "No Country for Old Men" and "Fargo," plus "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," "Raising Arizona," "Barton Fink," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "The Big Lebowski" and "Burn After Reading."
Offices will feature scenic design by Riccardo Hernandez, costume design by Laura Bauer, lighting design by David Weiner and sound design by Obadiah Eaves.
Offices will play Tuesday-Friday at 8 PM, Saturday at 2 PM & 8 PM and Sunday at 3 PM & 7 PM.
Tickets are $65 and available by calling Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 (ticketcentral.com).
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The final production of Atlantic Theater Company's 2008-09 Off-Broadway season will be the world premiere of Leslie Ayvazian's modern-relationships play Make Me, directed by Atlantic associate artistic director Christian Parker. Casting will be announced shortly.
Make Me will begin previews May 19, officially open May 31 and play a limited engagement through June 14 at the intimate Atlantic Stage 2 at 330 West 16th Street.
According to Atlantic, "In Make Me, six pent-up Americans in three different relationships have reached the end of their ropes. In this naughty comic fugue, Leslie Ayvazian explores what happens when the rules are changed just at the moment when people think they are perfectly comfortable and the lengths to which some will go to be seen, heard and obeyed."
Ayvazian makes her Atlantic Theater Company debut. Her acclaimed Off-Broadway play Nine Armenians won the John Gassner Outer Critics Award, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Kennedy Center's Roger L. Stevens Award. Her film credits include Showtime's "Every Three Minutes" starring Olympia Dukakis.
Atlantic associate artistic director Parker most recently staged the New York premiere of Tina Howe's play Birth And After Birth. Other Atlantic credits include Jeff Whitty's The Hiding Place and 10X20, a festival of newly commissioned ten-minute plays by writers previously produced at Atlantic.
Make Me will feature scenic design by Anna Louizos, lighting design by Josh Bradford and sound design by Jill BC DuBoff.
Ayvazian's second full-length play (after Nine Armenians), Singer's Boy, was produced at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco directed by Cary Perloff. High Dive, her one-woman show about turning 50, premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre directed by David Warren, produced in conjunction with The Play Company, and opened in New York at Manhattan Class Company. It has since received many productions in the U.S. and recently completed a successful run in Poland. Rosemary and I, which was named a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, received a workshop at New York Stage and Film and a full production at the Passage Theatre in Trenton, NJ, directed by Blair Brown. Her play Lovely Day premiered at City Theatre in Pittsburgh in a production directed by Tracy Brigden, and was produced in New York at The Play Company where it was staged by Blair Brown.
Make Me received workshop productions by the Cape Cod Theatre Festival and the Adirondack Theatre Festival, both directed by Martha Banta. She has received commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory Theatre and Wind Dancer Productions.
Make Me will play Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 PM, Saturday matinees at 2:30 PM and Sundays at 2:30 PM. All tickets are $40 and are available by calling Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or by visiting www.ticketcentral.com.
For more information visit www.atlantictheater.org.
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