Atlantic Theatre Company's CQ/CX Begins Performances 1/25

Gabe McKinley makes his Atlantic debut with the world premiere of CQ/CX. His critically acclaimed play Extinction was produced off-Broadway last season, and his other plays include The Kitchen Sink Play, Welcome Home Rock Rogers, Funny and Floodplains. He is the recipient of the 2011 Samuel French/New School for Drama Award for Excellence in Playwriting, and his play The Gravewas the winner of the Samuel French off-off-Broadway Short Play Festival. 

DIRECTOR

Five-time Tony Award^® nominated director David Leveaux returns to Atlantic following staging the U.S. premiere of Through A Glass Darkly at Atlantic last season and the recent acclaimed revival of Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia on Broadway. He received Tony Award^® nominations for the Tony Award^® winning revival of The Real Thing, the Tony Award^® nominated revival of Jumpersand the Broadway productions of Nine, Anna Christie and A Moon for the Misbegotten. He recently staged Backbeat, the story of the Beatles, in Hamburg and the West End.

STARRING

Tony Award^® nominee Larry Bryggman (Proof, Atlantic’s The Collection & A Kind of Alaska)

Peter Jay Fernandez (Cyrano De Bergerac, Theatre For A New Audience’s MacBeth)

Tim Hopper (Present Laughter, Ethan Coen’s Almost an Evening)

Arliss Howard (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, film Moneyball)

Kobi Libii (Perfect Harmony off-Broadway)

Tony Award^® nominee and Atlantic company member David Pittu (Love Musik, Atlantic’s What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling)

Steve Rosen (Peter and the Starcatcher, Spamalot)

Sheila Tapia’s (ReEntry off-Broadway)

WHAT:          

In the world premiere of Gabe McKinley’s CQ/CX, an up-and-coming black reporter at The New York Times sees his dreams of becoming a famous journalist come crashing down when he finds himself at the center of a plagiarism scandal. Drawing on his own experience as a newsman, McKinley weaves a revealing and complex story about the collateral damage of unchecked ambition and compounded lies. In this new play inspired by real events, truth becomes slippery and racial tensions reach a boiling point. CQ/CXraises difficult questions about the state of our media culture, and the meaning and price of journalistic integrity.

WHERE:

Atlantic Theater Company Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre Company's Peter Norton Space (555 West 42^nd Street) while Atlantic’s main stage continues its renovation.

WHEN:         

Previews begin:                                   Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Opening night:                                     Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Limited engagement through:          Sunday, March 4, 2012

SCHEDULE:  

CQ/CX will play January 25 – February 19:

Tuesday – Saturday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm, Sunday at 3pm and 7pm.

*No Saturday matinee on January 28, no Sunday evening on February 19.

February 21 – March 4:

Tuesday – Saturday at 8pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm, Sunday at 3pm.

TICKETS:       

All non-member tickets are $65.00 and available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (ticketcentral.com) or in person at the Ticket Central box office located at 416 West 42^nd Street, between 9^th & 10^th Avenues, or downtown at Atlantic Stage 2’s box office, located at 330 West 16^th Street, between 8^th & 9^th Avenues.

For membership information, wheelchair seating, and/or group sales for both the main productions and Atlantic Stage 2, call 212-645-1242.