ALL IS CALM Holiday Engagement Comes to The Sheen Center

Laura Little Theatricals and Theater Latté Da present the American premiere production of the off-Broadway premiere of the new musical All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, now playing off-Broadway at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culturein a limited holiday engagement through December 30. Performances are Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30PM; Sunday at 7pPM; Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday at 2PM. (Exceptions: There are no performances on Sunday, December 9 at 2PM or Sunday, December 23 at 7PM; there is an additional performance on Monday, December 24 at 2PM.)

Tickets, ranging from $71- $91, are available by calling the Sheen Center box office at 212-925-2812 or by purchasing online at www.AllIsCalm.org. The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man's Land singing "Stille Nacht." Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, peace. A remarkable true story, told in the words and songs of the men who lived it, All Is Calm is brought to life by a cast of 10 actor/singers and blends iconic WWI patriotic tunes, trench songs, medieval ballads and Christmas carols from England, Wales, France, Belgium and Germany with texts written by more than 30 World War I figures. Written and directed by Peter Rothstein (Founding Artistic Director, Theater Latté Da), with vocal arrangements by Erick Lichte (Artistic Director, Chor Leoni) and Timothy C. Takach (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Boston Pops) and music direction by Lichte, the off-Broadway premiere of All Is Calm features Sasha Andreev (Theater Latté Da's Ragtime), David Darrow (Guthrie Theater's The Royal Family), Benjamin Dutcher (Theater Latté Da's Ragtime), Ben Johnson (All Is Calm), Mike McGowan (The Book of Mormon), Tom McNichols (Cantus), Riley McNutt (All Is Calm), Rodolfo Nieto (Lyric Arts' Guys and Dolls), James Ramlet (Theater Latté Da's Sweeney Todd), and Evan Tyler Wilson (Theater Latté Da's Sweeney Todd). The costume design is by Trevor Bowen; lighting design by Marcus Dilliard; and sound design by Nicholas Tranby. For two years, Peter Rothstein, creator of All Is Calm, developed the musicals researching and absorbing soldiers letters, historical war documents, autobiographies, WWI poetry, gravestone inscriptions, and radio broadcasts of the period.

"I wanted to tell the story in their own words," says," said Rothstein. "For decades, the truce was considered a romantic fable, fiction, and I wanted to give legitimate voice to this remarkable moment that had somehow been denied its rightful place in history. I cannot express how gratifying it has been to share the story of these heroic men, in their own words, across the country and around the globe."

Since All Is Calm had its world premiere in a live broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio in 2007, the show has enjoyed global success with broadcasts on five continents through American Public Media and the European Broadcasting Union. The program has won awards including the Gold World Medal at the 2010 New York Festivals and the 2010 Gabriel Award, which honors works of excellence in broadcasting that serve audiences through the positive, creative treatment of concerns to humankind. All Is Calm has toured the United States for ten seasons, reaching more than 50 cities playing prestigious venues such as The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Cal Performances (Berkeley, CA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). The work has also been licensed and performed by theater companies and choruses across the US and Canada. A hit with audiences and critics alike, The New York Times calls All Is Calm "a docudrama in musical form that evokes the memory of that brief holiday peace through a cappella carols, ballads and patriotic songs and the spoken words of men who were there." The Daily Beast writes "the exquisitely performed All Is Calm is reaching out intimately and powerfully to audiences...a brilliant show that you should see immediately," while TheaterMania calls the musical "hands down, the most emotionally moving Christmas show I've ever seen."

Founded in 1998, Theater Latté Da is entering its 21st season of presenting original and re-imagined musical theater. Theater Latté Da seeks to create new connections between story, music, artist, and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater. TLD is dedicated to expanding the American Musical Theater with work that speaks to a contemporary audience. Theater Latté Da is the only nonprofit professional theater in the Twin Cities that exclusively produces musical theater. Since its inception, TLD has presented 71 Mainstage productions, including ten world premieres, and ten area premieres.

Each has garnered critical acclaim and earned its artists and TLD a host of awards, including: seven IVEY Awards for overall excellence, National Endowment for the Arts, the Gabriel Award for Broadcast Excellence, and the American Theater Wing National Theater Company Award. www.latteda.org Laura Little Theatrical Productions brings vision and passion to producing exceptional theater. Broadway credits include co-producer of the Tony-award winning productions of Come From Away and Peter and the Starcatcher.

Other producing credits include: First Date starring Zachary Levi, Johnny Baseball, Traditions of Christmas and a reading of The Giver featuring Patty Duke. Laura Little has also produced concerts featuring Doug Webster, pianist/vocalist Kevin Cole, and singer Cami Bradley. She is looking forward to her role as lead producer in the off-Broadway production of Theater Latté Da's All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (www.sheencenter.org) is a New York City arts center located in NoHo that presents a vibrant mix of theater, film, music, art and talk events. A project of the Archdiocese of New York, The Sheen Center serves all New Yorkers by presenting performances and artists that reflect the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Named for the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, best remembered as an inspirational author, radio host and two-time Emmy Award-winning television personality, The Sheen Center reflects his modern-day approach to contemporary topics. The Sheen Center is a state-of-the-art theater complex that includes the 270-seat off-Broadway Loreto Theater, equipped with five-camera high-definition TV and live-stream capability and a multi-track recording studio; the 80-seat off-off-Broadway Black Box Theater; four rehearsal studios; and an art gallery.