STAGE TUBE: Haley Joel Osment Talks Philadelphia Theatre Company's RED

Haley Joel Osment Visits Good Day: MyFoxPHILLY.com

Philadelphia Theatre Company opens its 2011-2012 season with the Philadelphia premiere of John Logan's Tony Award-winning drama Red October 14-November 13 at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre (Broad and Lombard Streets). Directed by Anders Cato, the two-person cast features Broadway veteran Stephen Rowe and Oscar nominee Haley Joel Osment. In the video, Osment stops by Good Day, where he chats about starring in the production!

Previews begin Friday, October 14 with opening night on Wednesday, October 19. Performances run Tuesday through Sunday until November 13. Tickets starting at $25 are available by calling the PTC Box Office at 215-985-0420 or visiting PhiladelphiaTheatreCompany.org. Philadelphia Theatre Company's Suzanne Roberts Theatre is located at Broad and Lombard Streets.

In Red, master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art - a series of murals for New York's famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating years that follow, Rothko works feverishly with his young assistant, Ken, in his studio on the Bowery. Raw and provocative, Red is a searing portrait of an artist's ambition and vulnerability as he tries to create a definitive work of art.

John Logan (Playwright) has authored Never the Sinner about the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, Hauptmann about the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping, and Riverview, a musical melodrama set at Chicago's famed amusement park. Red, which premiered in London, received six Tony Awards in 2010, the most of any play that year, including best play, best direction of a play, and best featured actor in a play. As a screenwriter, Logan has received two Academy Award nominations for Gladiator and The Aviator, and a Golden Globe Award for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. He has also written Any Given Sunday, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Time Machine, and The Last Samurai. Logan's most recent feature films include Rango, an animated feature starring Johnny Depp, the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Coriolanus directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes, and the film adaptation of The Invention of Hugo Cabret directed by Martin Scorsese.

Red brings together the creative team of set designer James Noone, lighting designer Tyler Micoleau, costume designer Alejo Vietti, and sound designer/composer Josh Schmidt.
Philadelphia Theatre Company's 2011-2012 season continues with The Scottsboro Boys with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb and book by David Thompson (January 20-February 19), The Outgoing Tide by Bruce Graham (March 23 - April 22), and reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute (May 25-June 24), as well as PTC's annual New Play Festival PTC@PLAY (February 27-March 11).

Founded in 1974, Philadelphia Theatre Company is a leading regional theater company whose mission is to produce, develop and present entertaining and imaginative contemporary theater focused on the American experience that both ignites the intellect and touches the soul. By developing new work through commissions, readings and workshops PTC generates projects that have a national impact and reach broad regional audiences. Under the leadership of Sara Garonzik as PTC's Producing Artistic Director since 1982, PTC supports the work of a growing body of diverse dramatists and takes pride in being a home to scores of nationally recognized artists who have participated in more than 140 world and Philadelphia premieres. PTC has received 45 Barrymore Awards and 155 nominations. Shira Beckerman was recently hired as PTC's new Managing Director after an extensive six-month national search. Beckerman's most recent position was Managing Director at The Pearl Theatre Company Off-Broadway. In October 2007, PTC moved into a home of its own, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre on Center City Philadelphia's Avenue of the Arts, solidifying the Company's status as a major player on the American theater scene.

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