Sheryl Kaller to Direct Roundabout Underground's TOO MUCH, TOO MUCH, TOO MANY; Opens 11/20

Roundabout Theatre Company has just announced the next Roundabout Underground production Too Much, Too Much, Too Many a new play by Meghan Kennedy, directed by Sheryl Kaller. The cast and creative team will be announced shortly.

The world premiere of Too Much, Too Much, Too Many will begin preview performances on Friday, October 25 and will open officially on Wednesday, November 20. This is a limited engagement through January 5, 2014. All tickets for Roundabout Underground productions are $20.

Bittersweet, poignant and touchingly funny, Too Much, Too Much, Too Many is a compelling new drama about the walls we build to protect our hearts--and deciding when it's time to break them down. Following the death of her husband, Rose locks herself in her bedroom for the better part of a year, leaving her daughter Emma to care for her through the closed door. When the church sends a pastor to help coax Rose out of her room, he soon finds that Rose is not the only one using barriers to hide her true feelings.

Too Much, Too Much, Too Many launches the seventh season of Roundabout Underground, an initiative to introduce and cultivate artists in Roundabout's 62-seat Black Box Theatre, at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street, NYC, NY, 10036). Prior productions include the acclaimed world premieres of Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate (2007), Steven Levenson's The Language of Trees (2008), Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days (2009), Kim Rosenstock's Tigers Be Still (2010), David West Read's The Dream of the Burning Boy (2011), Andrew Hinderaker's Suicide, Incorporated (2011), Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews (2012). This fall, Bad Jews will be playing upstairs in the Laura Pels Theatre while Too Much, Too Much, Too Many premieres in the Black Box downstairs.

Roundabout Underground is an initiative to showcase new plays that will either allow an experienced director to go back to his/her creative roots or give a debut production to an emerging writer or 2

director. Robyn Goodman (Artistic Consultant to the Roundabout), who has significant artistic development experience, curates the initiative that continues to be a creative breeding ground for nurturing new talent.

The 62-seat Black Box Theatre, below the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, allows Roundabout to take artistic risks that are better suited for a more intimate space.

Tickets will be on general sale beginning Monday, August 26 by calling Roundabout Audience Services at (212)719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre box office (111 West 46 Street). The ticket price is $20.00 for all seats.

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