Rapp's Red Light Winter Opens Off-Broadway, Feb. '06

By: Nov. 14, 2005
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After playing a sold out, extended run at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Red Light Winter, a new play written and directed by Adam Rapp, will open February 9, 2006 at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street).  Previews will begin on Friday, January 20.

The world premiere production of Red Light Winter opened at Steppenwolf's Garage Theatre in Chicago on May 29, 2005, and was extended by popular demand.  Last week, Adam Rapp won the 37th Annual Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work for the play.

The production will transfer intact with its original Steppenwolf actors : Christopher Denham, Lisa Joyce and Gary Wilmes.

"Red Light Winter follows two men and a woman in very foreign territory.   College friends Davis (Wilmes) and Matt (Denham) spend a wild, unforgettable evening in Amsterdam's Red Light District with a beautiful young prostitute, Christina (Joyce). They find that their lives have changed forever when their bizarre love triangle plays out in unexpected ways a year later in the East Village," according to press notes.

Rapp is a Chicago native, and the author of Animals and Plants, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Finer Noble Gases, Gompers and Faster, as well as the novels, Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, The Buffalo Tree, 33 Snowfish and Little Chicago.  He recently joined the writing team of Showtime's "The L Word" and is the writer/director of the feature film, Winter Passing, starring Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel and Ed Harris, which will be released February 17 in New York and Los Angeles by Yari Film Group.

"Now in its 30th Anniversary Season, Steppenwolf is a Chicago-based professional theater company committed to ensemble collaboration and artistic risk through its work with its ensemble, guest artists, partner institutions and the community. Founded in 1976 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry and Gary Sinise, with an ensemble of nine actors, Steppenwolf has now grown into an internationally renowned company of 35 artists whose talents include acting, directing, playwriting, filmmaking and textual adaptation."

The production features set design by Todd Rosenthal, costume design by Michelle Tesdall, lighting design by Keith Parham and sound design by Eric Shim.  The play is produced by Scott Rudin/Paramount Pictures, Robyn Goodman and Stuart Thompson.  Red Light Winter, it should be noted, contains nudity and explicit sexual situations.

The Barrow Street Theatre is located at 27 Barrow Street, at the corner of Seventh Avenue South.  Tickets ($65) will be available through Telecharge at 212: 239-6200, or www.telecharge.com.



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