Tongue in Cheek to Stage RAPTURE, BLISTER, BURN This Fall

Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions (TIC) presents a nine-performance revival of Gina Gionfriddo's comedy Rapture, Blister, Burn from October 26 through November 5, 2016, in midtown NYC.

The play begins with an awkward reunion between grad school friends, now in their forties. Catherine (Tracilyn Jones) built a career as a successful academic, while her former boyfriend, Don (Patrick Daniel Smith), is coasting along as a college dean, now married to Gwen (Jake Lipman), Catherine's former roommate. When Catherine offers a symposium on feminism to cheeky college student Avery (Brittany Anikka Liu), her traditional mother Alice (Rochelle Slovin), and Gwen, the women compare life choices, prompting an unlikely proposal.

Playwright Gina Gionfriddo's works include U.S. Drag, Becky Shaw (2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama), and Rapture, Blister, Burn (2013 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama), as well as TV writing for Law & Order.

This run marks TIC's thirty-third production in NYC since its founding in 2006 by producing artistic director Jake Lipman. Tongue in Cheek's mission is to produce and create thought-provoking comedies. In 2015, TIC adapted and produced the world premiere play with music, The Inn at Lake Devine, based on the best-selling novel by Elinor Lipman. In 2014, TIC was the recipient of a Puffin Foundation LTD grant for the creation of a new work, Buffalo Heights.

This fall's production of Rapture, Blister, Burn is directed by Molly Ballerstein (Women Playing Hamlet with TIC), stage managed by Angeline Nortz, sound design by Philip Rothman (NYIT Award nominee for Proof with TIC).

The cast features Tracilyn Jones (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead), Jake Lipman (The Inn at Lake Devine), Brittany Anikka Liu (NY theater debut), Patrick Daniel Smith (A Soldier's Play), and Rochelle Slovin (The Last Romance, and founder and director of the Museum of the Moving Image, which she led for 30 years).

TIC's production of Rapture, Blister, Burn will run October 26 through November 5, 2016 at The Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios, 244 West 54 Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY. Tickets are on sale at www.tictheater.com or by calling 1-800-838-3006.