THE CASTLE Opens Off-Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 Tonight

PTP/NYC, in association with Middlebury College, proudly presents its 27th repertory season, its 7th consecutive in New York, running from July 3 to August 4, 2013 in a limited Off-Broadway engagement at The Atlantic Stage 2, located at 330 West 16th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues in New York City. Howard Barker's The Castle, starring five-time Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Jan Maxwell in her 5th collaboration with PTP, directed by PTP's Co-Artistic Director Richard Romagnoli, is set to open tonight.

A revival of last season's acclaimed production of Caryl Churchill's Serious Money, about greed in London's financial district in the late '80s, directed by PTP's Co-Artistic Director Cheryl Faraone, is now open.

Howard Barker's The Castle is an epic work, blasting apart - with humor and violence - the boundaries of desire, pain, and sexuality. After an absence of 7 years, a group of Crusaders returns 'home' to find authority, religion, and human relations all upended and a new society established by the women who have been left behind. The battle lines are drawn immediately.

The cast of The Castle includes five-time Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner Jan Maxwell (Follies, Lend Me a Tenor and The Royal Family on Broadway, Victory, Scenes From An Execution and The Castle with PTP), Jennifer Van Dyck (Hedda Gabler, Dancing at Lughnasa and Two Shakespearean Actors on Broadway), David Barlow (Horizon at NY Theatre Workshop, Oroonoko with Theater for a New Audience, Victory and Scenes From An Execution with PTP), Quentin Maré (Broadway: Rock 'n' Roll, Coram Boy, Julius Caesar), Steven Dykes (Victory with PTP and Vanya with The Wrestling School), Brent Langdon (Serious Money and The Europeans with PTP), Robert Zukerman (Victory with PTP), Christina Fox, Aubrey Dube, Rachel Goodgal, Melissa MacDonald and Stephen Mrowiec.

The creative team includes Jon Craine (Set Design), Hallie Zieselman (Lighting Design), Jule Emerson (Costume Design), Cormac Bluestone (Sound Design), Eric Conner Marlin (Stage Manager) and Sumire Doi (Assistant Director).

The Castle began previews July 4 for a July 10 opening and runs through August 4. Performances take place on Thu 7/4 at 2pm, Thu 7/4 at 7:30pm, Fri 7/5 at 7:30pm, Sat 7/6 at 2pm, Sun 7/7 at 7:30pm, Wed 7/10 at 7:30pm, Thu 7/11 at 7:30pm, Sat 7/13 at 7:30pm, Sun 7/14 at 2pm, Tue 7/16 at 7:30pm, Fri 7/19 at 7:30pm, Sat 7/20 at 2pm, Sun 7/21 at 7:30pm, Tue 7/23 at 7:30pm, Thu 7/25 at 7:30pm, Sat 7/27 at 7:30pm, Sun 7/28 at 7:30pm, Tue 7/30 at 7:30pm, Fri 8/2 at 7:30pm, Sat 8/3 at 2pm, Sun 8/4 at 2pm. Running time for The Castle is 2 hours and 25 minutes including one intermission.

PTP/NYC continues to redefine political theatre for the 21st century with an annual month long repertory season. The company's mandate is the presentation of highly theatrical and thought-provoking work of contemporary social and cultural relevance. In its 26 seasons the voices of PTP's writers have addressed art, pornography, AIDS, homelessness, censorship, totalitarianism, apartheid and gender wars.

Tickets are $30 and $15 for students and seniors and can be purchased online at http://PTPNYC.org or by calling 1-866-811-4111. For more information visit http://PTPNYC.org.