Donmar Warehouse to Transfer THE NIGHT ALIVE and THE WEIR

The Donmar Warehouse is preparing to transfer both of its critically acclaimed Conor McPherson productions, The Night Alive and The Weir, within the next two months. The Night Alive will make its American premiere at The Atlantic Theater off-Broadway on the 30 November 2013, with The Weir opening at Wyndham's Theatre in the West End on the 16 January 2014.

The Weir is recognised as McPherson's masterpiece, winning the Evening Standard, Critics' Circle and Olivier Award for Best New Play in 1999. Josie Rourke's production is the first major British revival of this undoubted modern classic and marks the first West End transfer from the Donmar since her appointment as Artistic Director.

The Weir sold out at the Donmar during its eight week run in the summer of this year. The full original Donmar cast, Risteárd Cooper, Brian Cox, Dervla Kirwan, Peter McDonald and Ardal O'Hanlon, will reprise their roles for the West End transfer. This limited four month run is presented by Playful Productions, Arielle Tepper Madover and Tulchin/Bartner.

The Night Alive, written and directed by Conor McPherson, made its world premiere at the Donmar earlier this year. It now follows its sold-out London run with a limited nine week New York engagement. With inimitable warmth, style and craft, Conor McPherson's latest play deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations.

The Night Alive will feature the celebrated ensemble cast direct from the Donmar Warehouse production - Caoilfhionn Dunne, nominated for the Milton Shulman Award for Outstanding Newcomer at the 2013 Evening Standards Awards, Brian Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Michael McElhattonand Jim Norton. The Night Alive is the third Donmar production to transfer to New York in 2013, following The Machine at Park Avenue Armory and Julius Caesar at St Ann's Warehouse.

Conor McPherson was named by The New York Times as "the finest playwright of his generation". He won the George Devine Award in 1997 with his play St Nicholas. In 2006 he received a Tony Award nomination for Shining City and an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play for The Seafarer. In 2011 he wrote and directed The Veil for the National Theatre and in 2012 adapted Strindberg's The Dance of Death for the Donmar Trafalgar Season. Conor recently worked on the BBC series, Quirke.

Tickets for The Weir are now on sale. For further information visit www.TheWeirLondon.co.uk.

For further information on the recently announced Donmar 2014 Spring Season visit www.donmarwarehouse.com.

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Conor McPherson (Playwright / Director) most recently directed his latest play, The Night Alive, at the Donmar Warehouse, the production followed a revival of The Weir at the Donmar Warehouse (Royal Court, Duke of York's West End, Walter Kerr Theatre New York; Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics' Circle, George Devine Awards); Other plays include: Rum & Vodka (Fly by Night Theatre Co. Dublin); The Good Thief (Dublin Theatre Festival; Stewart Parker Award); This Lime Tree Bower (Fly by Night Theatre Co. and Bush Theatre; Meyer-Whitworth Award); St Nicholas (Bush Theatre and Primary Stages New York); Dublin Carol (Royal Court and Atlantic Theater New York);Port Authority (Ambassadors Theatre West End, Gate Theatre Dublin and Atlantic Theater New York), Shining City (Royal Court, Gate Theatre Dublin & Manhattan Theatre Club New York; Tony Award nomination Best Play); The Seafarer (National Theatre, Abbey Theatre Dublin, Booth Theatre New York; Laurence Olivier, Evening Standard, Tony Award nominations Best Play), and The Veil (National Theatre). Theatre adaptations include Daphne Du Maurier's The Birds (Gate Theatre Dublin and Guthrie Theatre Minneapolis) and August Strindberg's The Dance of Death (Donmar at Trafalgar Studios). Work for the cinema includes I Went Down, Saltwater, Samuel Beckett'sEndgame, The Actors and The Eclipse. He also adapted John Banville's Elegy for April for BBC TV. Awards for his screenwriting include three Best Screenplay Awards from the Irish Film and Television Academy; The Spanish Cinema Writers Circle Best Screenplay Award; The CICAE Award for Best Film Berlin Film festival; Jury Prize San Sebastian Film Festival; and The Melies D'Argent Award for Best European Film.

Josie Rourke (Director) became Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse in 2012. Since her appointment she has directed Berenice, The Physicists, The Recruiting Office and The Weir. She is currently directing The Machine, a new play by Matt Charman, as part of the Manchester International Festival, which will tour to New York later this year. Rourke trained at the Donmar, under Sam Mendes, through the theatre's annual Resident Assistant Director Scheme. Prior to the Donmar, she was Artistic Director at the Bush Theatre, London, from 2007 to 2011. Her 2010 production of Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart ran in the Lyttelton at the National Theatre. In 2011 her production of Much Ado About Nothing, starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, ran in the West End at Wyndham's Theatre and received an Olivier Award nomination for Best Revival.

THE Donmar Warehouse (Josie Rourke, Artistic Director; Kate Pakenham, Executive Producer) is a 250-seat not-for-profit theatre located in the heart of London's West End. Since 2012, it has been led by Josie Rourke, who follows Sam Mendes and Michael Grandage as Artistic Director. Over the past 22 years it has built a reputation for artistic excellence as one of London's leading producing theatres.

The Donmar works with the industry's finest creative artists to present an unparalleled programme of award-winning theatre; it has presented some of London's most memorable theatrical experiences, and has garnered critical acclaim at home and abroad. The theatre's diverse artistic policy encompasses new work, bold re-imaginings of classics and innovative revivals of contemporary British, Irish and American drama. Since 1992 Donmar productions have received 43 Olivier Awards, 26 Critic's Circle Awards, 25 Evening Standard Awards, as well as 20 Tony Awards for ten Broadway productions.

The Donmar Warehouse has produced Conor McPherson's work previously, including his adaptation of Strindberg's The Dance of Death which premiered as part of the Donmar Warehouse's Trafalgar Season in December 2012, and Josie Rourke's critically acclaimed production of The Weir, which will transfer to the Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End for 12 weeks from January 16, 2014.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is the award winning Off-Broadway theatre that produces great plays simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble. Atlantic believes that the story of a play and the intent of its playwright are at the core of the creative process. The plays in the Atlantic repertory, from both new and established playwrights, are boldly interpreted by today's finest theatre artists and resonate with contemporary audiences. Since its inception over 28 years ago, Atlantic has produced more than 150 plays including Tony Award-winning productions of Spring Awakening and The Beauty Queen of Leenane(Martin McDonagh); world premieres of Women or Nothing, Almost an Evening, Offices and Happy Hour (Ethan Coen); The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Cripple of Inishmaan (Martin McDonagh);Body Awareness (Annie Baker); Romance (David Mamet); Through a Glass Darkly (Bergman, adapted by Jenny Worton); Farragut North (Beau Willimon); Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling (Adam Rapp); Bluebird and Harper Regan (Simon Stephens); What Rhymes With America (Melissa James Gibson); The Lying Lesson (Craig Lucas); 3 Kinds of Exile (John Guare); Storefront Church (John Patrick Shanley); Blue/Orange (Joe Penhall); Port Authority and Dublin Carol (Conor McPherson);Writer's Block (Woody Allen); American Buffalo and Edmond (David Mamet); The Cider House Rules(adapted by Peter Parnell); Good Television (Rod McLachlan); Celebration & The Room, The Collection & A Kind of Alaska and The Hothouse (Harold Pinter); Gabriel (Moira Buffini); Oohrah!(Bekah Brunstetter); Mojo, Parlour Song (Jez Butterworth); Boys' Life and The Lights (Howard Korder); Distant Fires (Kevin Heelan); Missing Persons (Craig Lucas).

Atlantic has garnered 12 Tony Awards, 12 Lucille Lortel Awards, 15 Obie Awards, seven Drama Desk Awards, five Outer Critics Circle Awards and three Drama League Awards. Atlantic also operates The Atlantic Theater Company Acting School, which has an undergraduate program in conjunction with NYU, as well as a two-year professional acting program and a six-week intensive workshop every summer. Atlantic for Kids and the Educational Outreach Program partners with schools and teachers throughout the greater metropolitan area coordinating in-school visits of teaching artists and post-theatre talkbacks.

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