Theatre For A New Audience's HAMLET Now Set To Begin 3/19

Theatre for a New Audience's Hamlet was scheduled to begin previews Tuesday, March 17, and will now begin previews Thursday, March 19, at 7:30pm at The Duke on 42nd StreetSM, a New 42nd Street® project, 229 West 42nd Street.

Hamlet will open Thursday, March 26, at 6:30pm for a run through April 12, after which Theatre for a New Audience's Othello returns to The Duke on 42nd StreetSM, a New 42nd Street® project, for a 12-performance engagement, April 15 through 24.

Hamlet, directed by David Esbjornson, features Christian Camargo in the title role.  Joining Mr. Camargo are Alyssa Bresnahan as Gertrude, Alvin Epstein as Polonius, Graham Hamilton as Laertes, Jennifer Ikeda as Ophelia and Casey Biggs as Claudius.  Mr. Biggs replaced Patrick Page, who withdrew from the production due to illness.

Mr. Biggs's selected credits include Pride's Crossing at Lincoln Center Theatre.   Off Broadway and in regional theatre, he has played leading roles in The Taming of the Shrew, All the King's Men, Long Day's Journey into Night, Summer and Smoke, It's a Wonderful Life  at Arena Stage and Elmer Gantry at Ford's Theatre of Washington, D.C.  For film and television, Mr. Biggs has appeared in Broken Arrow, Dragonfly, The Pelican Brief, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  For the theatre, Mr. Biggs's directing credits include Hedda Gabler, Hamlet, The Seagull, Richard III, The Three Sisters, Macbeth, Moby Dick Rehearsed, and Love, Shakespeare for The Acting Company.   He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, alumnus of The Acting Company, on the directing faculty at the New School for Drama, and Artistic Director of the Greene Arts Festival.

Single tickets are $75.00.  Tickets may be purchased in person during box office hours at The Duke on 42nd StreetSM , 229 West 42nd Street, via the phone at 646-223-3010 or online at www.dukeon42.org.

$10.00 - New Deal: Age 25 or under.  New Deal tickets are available for any performance, any time.  New Deal tickets may be purchased by using the code NWDL985 over the phone (646-223-3010) or in person at the box office. One ticket may be purchased per person. Valid proof of age must be shown in order to collect tickets.

The New 42nd Street® is an independent, nonprofit organization charged with long-term responsibility for seven historic theaters on West 42nd Street.  In addition to finding live theater and entertainment tenants for these buildings, The New 42nd Street® owns and operates both The New Victory® Theater - New York’s premier theater for kids and families - and the New 42nd Street Studios - a ten-story, $34.7 million, state-of-the-art facility containing 14 rehearsal studios, office space and a workshop/experimental theater named The Duke on 42nd StreetSM for national and international performing arts companies. Since its opening, the New 42nd Street® Studios has been fully occupied by both commercial and nonprofit theater and dance companies, establishing a home for artists to create new and exciting works right at the “Crossroads of the World.”

Designed by Charles Platt and Ray Dovell of Platt Byard Dovell Architects, the New 42nd Street® Studios opened on June 21, 2000.  This 84,000 square foot building consists of five floors of rehearsal studios, three floors of office space for nonprofit performing arts companies; and a 199-seat theater appreciatively named The Duke on 42nd StreetSM in recognition of a generous grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.  The largely glass building was conceived as a “structure of light” in collaboration with lighting designer Anne Militello.  An innovative system of multicolored lights play across the façade of the building, with a translucent “light screen” encasing the space for The Duke on 42nd StreetSM and a 175-foot wand of light soaring skyward at the west end of the building.  By day, the building stands as a work of post-modern architecture; by night, it is a fantasy of light and motion, hinting at the creative processes transpiring within.