ROSE, Starring Kathleen Chalfant, Announces Thanksgiving Schedule at Theatre Row

Nora's Playhouse will present the World Premiere of Laurence Leamer's solo play about Rose Kennedy, ROSE, at Theatre Row's Clurman Theatre, 410 West 43nd Street, NYC, beginning November 21st, opening November 29th and continuing through December 13, 2015.

The regular performance schedule for ROSE is Tuesday@ 7 PM, Wednesday @ 2 & 8 PM, Thursday, Friday & Saturday evenings @ 8 PM, with matinees on Saturday @ 2 PM and Sunday @ 3 PM.

During the week of Thanksgiving, there will be an additional performance of ROSE on Monday, November 23rd at 7 pm with no performances on Wednesday evening, November 25th or Thursday, November 26th.

Award-winning stage, film and TV actress Kathleen Chalfant will play Mrs. Kennedy under the direction of Caroline Reddick Lawson. Jane Greenwood is designing the costumes with scene design/projections by Anya Klepikov, lighting by Caitlin Rapoport and sound design by Jane Shaw

ROSE is the Kennedy story as told by the matriarch who lived it all. Bestselling author Laurence Leamer's (The Kennedy Women, The Kennedy Men and Sons of Camelot) intimate, one-character drama is set in 1969 at the Kennedy's Hyannis Port compound the week after Teddy's fateful accident at Chappaquiddick. Rose struggles with all the tragedies the Kennedys have overcome and finds new understanding of the choices she made as well as those made by her husband and children. Inspired by audio recordings Rose Kennedy made, ROSE tells her extraordinary story, the highs and the lows, in her own words. ROSE takes the audience on a fascinating and unexpected journey with someone we think we know.

What makes Leamer's play so unique is that the playwright had unprecedented access to 40 hours of taped interviews Rose Kennedy made while working on her ghost-written autobiography. Her life spanned the entire 20th century and she witnessed and participated in every great moment in the Kennedy saga.

Named for the heroine of Ibsen's A Doll's House, Nora's Playhouse is a theatre company devoted to presenting a wide range of women's stories, told through the collaboration of women artists.

Tickets are $65 and available through Telecharge.com or (212) 239-6200. For additional information about ROSE or Nora's Playhouse, visit www.norasplayhouse.org.

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