Ethan Coen's OFFICES Extends One Week! MAKE ME Cast Announced!
OFFICES
EXTENDED THROUGH SUNDAY, JUNE 7th, 2009
OPENS THURSDAY, MAY 7th
Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce an extension of the world premiere production of Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen's OFFICES through Sunday, June 7th, 2009.
Directed by Neil Pepe, OFFICES began previews Wednesday, April 15th and officially opens Thursday, May 7th Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater. The limited engagement was originally scheduled through Sunday, May 31, 2009.
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.
The ensemble cast features Academy Award® winner F. Murray Abraham (Coen's 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 (Atlantic's Spring Awakening), Joey Slotnick (Almost an Evening), Greg Stuhr (November), C.J. Wilson (Atlantic's The Voysey Inheritance) and Daniel Yelsky (upcoming film Meet Monica Velour).
Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen returns to Atlantic with another world premiere production of one-act comedies. He made his Off-Broadway debut last season with the hit world premiere of Almost an Evening, which transferred Off-Broadway following a sold out extended Atlantic Stage 2 run. Coen has made fourteen movies with his brother Joel, including the Academy Award® winning films No Country for Old Men and Fargo; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Raising Arizona; Barton Fink; The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski and Burn After Reading.
Atlantic artistic director Neil Pepe made his acclaimed Broadway debut this season with the hit revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, and staged David Pittu's world premiere comedy What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, which transferred Off-Broadway following a sold out engagement at Stage 2. He recently staged Harold Pinter's first and most recent plays, The Room and Celebration at Atlantic, and the world premiere of Mamet's Romance at Atlantic and at the Mark Taper Forum.
The design team for OFFICES features sets by Riccardo Hernandez, costumes by Laura Bauer, lighting by David Weiner and sound by Obadiah Eaves.
OFFICES plays Tuesday - Friday at 8p, Saturday at 2p & 8p and Sunday at 3p & 7p.Tickets are $65.00, and available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (ticketcentral.com).
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MAKE ME
Atlantic Theater Company's world-premiere production of Leslie Ayvazian's relationships play, Make Me, will feature Anthony Arkin, Candy Buckley, Jessica Hecht, J.R. Horne, Richard Masur and Ellen Parker and will run May 20-June 14.
The production, directed by Atlantic associate artistic director Christian Parker, will open Off-Broadway May 31 at Atlantic Stage 2 at 330 West 16th Street.
According to ATC, "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."
With this play, 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.
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 for which he directed plays by Tina Howe, Keith Reddin and Rolin Jones.
Make Me will feature scenic design by Anna Louizos, costume design by Theresa Squire, lighting design by Josh Bradford and sound design by Jill BC DuBoff.
Arkin appeared in Broadway's I'm Not Rappaport and Off-Broadway's The Waverly Gallery; Buckley appeared in Broadway's After the Fall, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cabaret and Ring Round the Moon and Off-Broadway's Shockheaded Peter, Valhalla and Communicating Doors; Hecht most recently appeared in Julius Caesar on Broadway and in Howard Katz; Horne returns to Atlantic following starring in the world premiere of Ethan Coen's Almost an Evening at Atlantic Stage 2 and The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street; Masur appeared in Broadway's Democracy and The Changing Room and Off-Broadway's Dust, A Feminine Ending, The Ruby Sunrise and Sarah, Sarah; and Parker's New York City work includes House/Garden, Plenty, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Fen, The Heidi Chronicles and more.
Ayvazian's other plays include High Dive, her one-woman show about turning 50; Rosemary and I, which was named a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist; Lovely Day, which premiered at City Theatre in Pittsburgh; Footlights, a one-woman show about shoes; and one-act plays Practice; Hi There, Mr. Machine; Twenty Four Years; Deaf Day and Plan Day.
Make Me received workshop productions by the Cape Cod Theatre Festival and the Adirondack Theatre Festival, both directed by Martha Banta.
Make Me will play Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30 PM and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 PM. All tickets are $45 and are available by calling Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or by visiting www.ticketcentral.com.
