OTHELLO Returns To NY Stage For 12 Performances 4/15-4/24

Theatre for a New Audience's acclaimed production of Othello directed by Arin Arbus in her Off-Broadway directing debut, returns to the stage with the entire cast intact for twelve performances only, April 15 through April 24, at The Duke on 42nd StreetSM, a New 42nd Street® project, 229 West 42nd Street. Othello is following Theatre for a New Audience's production of Hamlet, directed by David Esbjornson. Hamlet begins previews Tuesday, March 17, at 7:30pm, opening Thursday, March 26, at 6:30pm, and running through Sunday, April 12.

Othello features John Douglas Thompson as Othello, Ned Eisenberg as Iago, Juliet Rylance as Desdemona, Kate Forbes as Emilia and Lucas Hall as Cassio. Director Arin Arbus is Theatre for a New Audience's Associate Artistic Director.

The last performance of Othello was March 7. The newly added twelve performances, an unprecedented remount by Theatre for a New Audience, are due to the overwhelming demand for tickets.

Jeffrey Horowitz, Artistic Director, said, "Theatre for a New Audience has produced some of the most promising directors early in their careers including Karin Coonrod, Bartlett Sher, Darko Tresnjak and Julie Taymor. Arin Arbus, who won the prestigious 2008 Princess Grace Award, can now be added to that illustrious list."

Theatre for a New Audience <www.tfana.org > is the first American theatre to be invited to bring a production of Shakespeare to the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Ms. Arbus was a Playwrights Horizons Directing Resident, a Williamstown Workshop Directing Corps Member, a Drama League Directing Fellow and a current member of Soho Rep.'s Writer/Director Lab. She has also assisted Tony Award-winning directors Gerald Gutierrez and Doug Hughes at Theatre for a New Audience.

John Douglas Thompson has appeared in Theatre for a New Audience's Oroonoko for which he received an AUDELCO nomination and Antony and Cleopatra. On Broadway, he appeared in Cyrano de Bergerac with Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner and Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington. Off-Broadway appearances include King Lear at the Classical Theatre of Harlem for which he received an AUDELCO nomination and Hedda Gabler at New York Theatre Workshop.

Ned Eisenberg last appeared at Theatre for a New Audience as Fagin in Oliver Twist. Also for Theatre for a New Audience, Mr. Eisenberg played the title role in Shakespeare's King John, Saturninus in Titus Andronicus and Truffaldino in The Green Bird, the last two of which were directed by Julie Taymor. He was last on Broadway in Lincoln Center Theater's Awake and Sing and on film in two Clint Eastwood movies, Million Dollar Baby and Flags of Our Fathers.

Juliet Rylance is making her New York stage debut. She played the lead in Middle Temple Hall's Romeo and Juliet and at London's Shakespeare's Globe she played Perdita in The Winter's Tale and
Cressida in Troilus and Cressida. She also was Medea in Bash: Latterday Plays by Neil LaBute at Trafalgar Studios in London's West End. For that role, The Telegraph wrote "following in the footsteps of her father, Mark Rylance, who ran Shakespeare's Globe for a decade, she is a superb actress, with a winning spontaneity, an ability to convey strong emotion in an unforcEd Manner and a warmth that radiates through the hall."

Kate Forbes for Theatre for a New Audience has played Portia in The Merchant of Venice opposite F. Murray Abraham both in NYC and at the RSC and as Helena in All's Well That Ends Well.

Lucas Hall last appeared in Theatre for a New Audience's All's Well That Ends Well and the title role in Hamlet at San Diego's Old Globe.

Rounding out the company are Denis Butkus, who played on Broadway in The Coast of Utopia and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial; Robert Langdon Lloyd, who was on Broadway in Amadeus and is a founding member of Peter Brook's C.I.C.T. in Paris and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company; Elizabeth Meadows Rouse, who performed in Theatre for a New Audience's Comedy of Errors; Christian Rummel, who appeared in Theatre for a New Audience's Antony & Cleopatra; Alexander Sovronsky, on Broadway in Cyrano; and Graham Winton, who appeared in Theatre for a New Audience's Don Juan, Julius Caesar and Pericles.

Peter Ksander (sets); Miranda Hoffman (costumes); Marcus Doshi (lights); Sarah Pickett (music) and Matt O'Hare (sound) like Ms. Arbus are early career artists. Robert Neff Williams is the Voice and Text Consultant and B.H. Barry the fight choreographer.

BOX OFFICE INFO:
The additional performances are

Wednesday, April 15, at 7:30pm
Thursday, April 16, at 7:30pm
Friday, April 17, at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 18, at 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday, April 19, at 2:00pm and 7:00pm
Tuesday, April 21, at 7:30pm
Wednesday, April 22, at 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Thursday, April 23, at 7:30pm
Friday, April 24, at 7:30pm

Single tickets for Othello are $75. Single tickets for Hamlet, $75 may be purchased via phone at 646-223-3010 or via web at www.dukeon42.org.

For ages 25 and under, $10.00 tickets may be purchased for Othello and Hamlet 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 using the code NWDL985. New Deal tickets are available for any performance, any time, one ticket per valid I.D. I.D. is required to pick up tickets at the box office.

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