Borle, Keenan-Bolger & Chanler-Berat to Star in PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced the full cast for Peter and the Starcatcher, written by Rick Elice, directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, based upon the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson.

The cast of Peter and the Starcatcher features Adam Chanler-Berat as Peter (Next To Normal); Christian Borle as Black Stache (Angels in America, Legally Blonde, Spamalot, Mary Poppins), and Celia Keenan-Bolger as Molly (25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Les Miserables, Bachelorette). The company also includes Teddy Bergman as Fighting Prawn (Hell House); Arnie Burton as Mrs. Bumbrake (The 39 Steps, Amadeus); Matt D'Amico as Slank and Hawking Clam (Fizz); Brandon Dirden as Captain Scott (Enron, Edgewise); Carson Elrod as Prentiss (Reckless, Wedding Crashers); Kevin Del Aguila as Smee (book writer of Altar Boyz, Jacques Brel); Greg Hildreth as Alf (Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson); Karl Kenzler as Lord Aster (Mary Poppins, Twelve Angry Men); and David Rossmer as Ted (Fiddler on the Roof, Don't Quit Your Night Job).

Peter and the Starcatcher begins previews at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4 Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery on Friday, February 18 and runs through Sunday, April 3. The opening night is scheduled for Wednesday, March 9 at 7pm. Tickets go on sale Friday, December 10.

Rick Elice, co-writer of the Tony® Award-winning Jersey Boys and The Addams Family, along with actor/director/author Roger Rees, probably best known for his Tony® Award-winning performance in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, and OBIE Award-winning director Alex Timbers, founder and artistic director of Les Freres Corbusier, Drama Desk Award-winning writer-director of the highly-acclaimed Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and director of the hit The Pee-Wee Herman Show, have created an imaginative new play based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers. In it a company of twelve actors plays some 50 characters-all on a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?

Peter and the Starcatcher features music by Wayne Barker; movement by Steven Hoggett, and music direction by Marco Paguia. Set design is by Donyale Werle; costume design is by Paloma Young; lighting design is by Jeff Croiter; sound design is by Darron L. West.

New York Theatre Workshop, now celebrating its 28th season, is a leading voice in the world of Off-Broadway and within the theatre community in New York and around the world. NYTW has emerged as a premiere incubator of important new theatre, honoring its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape our lives. In addition, NYTW is known for its innovative adaptations of classic repertory. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village neighborhood, NYTW presents three to five new productions, over 80 readings, and numerous workshop productions, for over 45,000 audience members. Over the past 28 years, NYTW has developed and produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson's Rent, Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, and Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, and A Number, and Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's Aftermath. The 2002 remounting of Martha Clarke's seminal work Vienna: Lusthaus and subsequent American tour was one of the longest-running productions in NYTW's history. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies, and minority artist fellowships. In 1991, NYTW received an OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement and in 2000 was designated to be part of the Leading National Theatres Program by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

New York Theatre Workshop is extremely grateful for the generous support of all our funders. We would like to especially acknowledge: Fund for the City of New York/Open Society Foundations; the Shubert Foundation; the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs for their outstanding leadership of arts funding in New York City.

Peter and the Starcatcher will play at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery, beginning Friday, February 18 and opening Wednesday, March 9. The regular performance schedule is Tuesday at 7:00pm; Wednesday through Friday at 8:00pm; Saturday at 3:00pm and 8:00pm; Sunday at 2:00pm and 7:00pm. There will be a special matinee on Wednesday, March 23 at 2pm. The limited engagement is currently scheduled to run through Sunday, April 3, 2011. Tickets are $70 and may be purchased online at www.ticketcentral.com, 24 hours a day, seven days a week or by phoning Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200. For exact dates and times of performance, and for more information, visit www.nytw.org.

NYTW is pleased make theatre accessible to everyone with its $20 CheapTix Sundays program. A dedicated number of tickets for Sunday evening performances at 7:00pm can be purchased in person at the NYTW Box Office for only $20. Tickets may be purchased in advance, payable in cash only and are available to all audience members.

NYTW also has $20 student tickets available for all performances. Student tickets may be purchased in advance from the NYTW Box Office with valid student identification.

The NYTW Box office is open 1:00pm to 6:00pm, Tuesday through Saturday.