THE WAY WE GET BY, Starring Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski, Opens Tonight at Second Stage

By: May. 19, 2015
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Second Stage Theatre welcomes film star Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables, Dear John, Mamma Mia!, upcoming Ted 2 and Pan) in her off-Broadway debut opposite Thomas Sadoski (The Newsroom, Wild, upcoming in NBC's The Slap) in the world premiere production of NEIL LaBUTE's drama, The Way We Get By. Directed by Tony nominee LEIGH SILVERMAN, the production began previews on April 28, 2015 and officially opens tonight, May 19, 2015 at Second Stage Theatre, 305 West 43rd Street.

This two-character play will star Seyfried and Sadoski as Beth and Doug: two people who have no problems getting dates with their partners of choice. What they do have, however, is a very awkward encounter after spending one hot night together following a drunken wedding reception they attend. They wake up to a blurry morning where the rules of attraction, sex and society are waiting for them before their first cup of coffee, leading them to ponder how much they really know about each other and how much they really care about what other people think. A world premiere from one of our most provocative storytellers, The Way We Get By is a play about love and lust and the whole damn thing.

THE WAY WE GET BY features set design by Neil Patel, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Matthew Frey, and sound design by Bart Fasbender. Casting by Telsey + Co., Will Cantler.

All performances are staged at Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theatre, 305 West 43rd Street (just west of Eighth Avenue).

AMANDA SEYFRIED will co-star in the upcoming Ted 2, the sequel to Universal Pictures' hit film with Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane, which will be released in theaters on June 26, 2015. She also appears in Noah Baumbach's upcoming independent feature, While We're Young, with Ben Stiller, Naomi Watts and Adam Driver, opening on March 27, 2015. This summer she will also appear in Joe Wright's Pan for Warner Bros, an origin story of Peter Pan with Hugh Jackman. She recently filmed the lead role in the independent feature, Fathers and Daughters, with Russell Crowe and Aaron Paul. She appeared in the Universal comedy, A Million Ways To Die in the West, opposite Seth MacFarlane and Charlize Theron, and also voiced the lead in Twentieth Century Fox's animated Epic. She starred as Linda Lovelace in the Radius TWC's biopic, Lovelace, which premiered at Sundance and for which she received rave reviews. Amanda has appeared as Cosette in the film adaptation of Les Miserables and previously appeared in Mamma Mia! with Meryl Streep. Other film credits include Mean Girls; Diablo Cody's horror comedy, Jennifer's Body, with Megan Fox; the thriller Chloe opposite Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson; Nicholas Sparks' Dear John with Channing Tatum; and the romantic dramedy Letters to Juliet with Vanessa Redgrave. Her television career took off on HBO's critically acclaim "Big Love" with Bill Paxton, Chloe Sevigny and Ginnifer Goodwin, as well as a memorable turn in cult favorite "Veronica Mars" as the series' catalyst.

THOMAS SADOSKI stars as Don Keefer on HBO's Golden Globe-nominated Aaron Sorkin series, "The Newsroom," which aired its final season this past fall. He can next be seen in the current film adaptation of the New York Times best-seller Wild, directed by Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club) and starring Reese Witherspoon. He was also recently seen in the film, Take Care, opposite Leslie Bibb, written and directed by Liz Tuccillo. Thomas recently completed filming I Smile Back opposite Sarah Silverman and Josh Charles and can be seen in the upcoming Jon Robin Baitz's NBC miniseries, "The Slap," opposite Zachary Quinto, Peter Sarsgaard and Mary-Louise Parker.

The Way We Get By will be his sixth collaboration with Second Stage Theatre, previously appearing in Becky Shaw (Lortel nomination), Reckless (on Broadway opposite Mary-Louise Parker), Gemini, All This Intimacy, and This Is Our Youth (opposite Mark Ruffalo). Sadoski was nominated for a Leading Actor Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Award for originating the role of Greg in Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty. He was most recently seen on Broadway in the smash hit Other Desert Cities (playwright Jon Robin Baitz, director Joe Mantello) for which he was awarded an Obie and Lortel Award for the original Lincoln Center run. Other Broadway credits include The House of Blue Leaves (opposite Ben Stiller and Edie Falco, dir. David Cromer). His many Off-Broadway credits include Sam Mendes' Bridge Project productions of As You Like It as Touchstone and The Tempest as Stefano (co-produced by BAM and The Old Vic with a seven-country international tour), Stay, Where We're Born, The Mistakes Madeline Made, Jump/Cut, and The General From America. Additionally, Sadoski's highly praised version of David Sedaris' one-man show Santaland Diaries has been produced twice by the Long Wharf Theatre and he has starred in five productions at the acclaimed Williamstown Theatre Festival. In Los Angeles, Thomas starred in the world premiere of Michael Golamco's Build at the Geffen Playhouse.

Sadoski's additional television credits include recurring roles on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "As the World Turns" and guest starring on "Ugly Betty," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," and "Law & Order." Other film credits include the upcoming John Wick starring Keanu Reeves, 30 Beats, The New Twenty, Circledrawers, Loser (writer/director Amy Heckerling), Happy Hour, Winter Solstice and The Dramatics.

NEIL LaBUTE burst onto the filmmaking scene at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival with his feature debut, In the Company of Men. The film went on to win the Filmmaker Trophy at the festival, as well as the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Feature. In addition to Sundance, it screened at the Cannes, Edinburgh, and Deauville Film Festivals and won two Independent Spirit Awards. Following on the success of In the Company of Men, LaBute continued to push boundaries on screen and stage and has established himself as both a leading playwright and film writer/director. LaBute's plays have been Tony and Olivier Award nominated and stagedthroughouttheworld. Theyincludebash:latter-dayplays;TheShapeofThings;TheMercySeat;The Distance From Here; Autobahn; Fat Pig; Some Girl(s); This Is How It Goes; Wrecks; Filthy Talk for Troubled Times; In a Dark Dark House; reasons to be pretty (Tony Award nomination for Best Play); The Break of Noon; In A Forest, Dark And Deep; Reasons to Be Happy; and The Money Shot. LaBute is also the author of Seconds of Pleasure, a collection of short fiction which was published by Grove Atlantic. Among his films are Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, The Shape of Things, Lakeview Terrace, Some Velvet Morning and the short films sexting and BFF. His most recent feature film is Dirty Weekend, starring Matthew Broderick and Alice Eve.

LEIGH SILVERMAN returns to Second Stage Theatre where she directed John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea starring Rosemarie DeWitt and Adam Rothenberg, and, most recently, Bess Wohl's American

Hero. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her direction of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's musical, Violet, and also directed the Broadway productions of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish and Lisa Kron's Well. Other Off-Broadway productions include The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Playwrights Horizons); Kung Fu (Signature Theatre); The Call (Playwrights Horizons); The Madrid (MTC); Golden Child (Signature Theatre); No Place to Go (Public Theater/Two River Theater); In the Wake (Center Theatre Group/Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Public Theater, Obie Award, Lortel nomination); Go Back to Where You

Are (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award); From Up Here (MTC, Drama Desk nomination); Yellow Face (Center Theatre Group/The Public Theater); Coraline (MCC/True Love); Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons); and
Well (The Public Theater/Huntington Theatre/ ACT). Recent regional credits include American Hero (WTF) and Chinglish (Goodman Theater, Jeff nomination; West Coast/Hong Kong tour).

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