Boyd Gaines, Dana Ivey, et al. Featured in TEN CHIMNEYS Reading, 3/14

Ten Chimneys, offering a revealing look at Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, will be presented in a staged reading starring Dana Ivey (The Importance of Being Earnest), Boyd Gaines (Driving Miss Daisy) and Lisa Banes (Go Back to Where You Are) by The Acting Company on Monday, March 14 at 7pm at the Mainstage Theater of Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street. Directed by David Ira Goldstein, artistic director of Arizona Theatre Company, where Ten Chimneys had its recent World Premiere, the play is by Jeffrey Hatcher (Tuesdays with Morrie, Murder by Poe). Reception with the cast, director and writer follow the performance. Tickets are $60 and $35 available at 212-258-3111.

It is filled with love, intrigue, romance and suicide - and that's just in the play they're rehearsing. The Lunts, two of the most revered Broadway stars, decide to perform Chekhov's The Sea Gull but first retreat to ‘investigate' the play at Ten Chimneys, their beloved Wisconsin estate where they are surrounded by actors, family and hangers-on. When a young Uta Hagen arrives, events begin to mirror Chekhov's masterpiece of passion and art.

Founded in 1972 by John Houseman, current Producing Artistic Director Margot Harley, Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone, The Acting Company has been honored with a Tony Award for sustained excellence. Its 2009 production of its commissioned adaptation of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was selected as the 4th best play of the year by TIME Magazine.

Some of America's finest actors have begun their careers with The Acting Company including Rainn Wilson, Jeffrey Wright, Jesse L Martin, Frances Conroy, Harriet Harris, David Ogden Stiers, Keith David, Mr. Kline and Ms. LuPone. The Company's upcoming New York Season featuring The Comedy of Errors is part of Shakespeare @ Pace, a festival which also includes productions by Theatre for a New Audience and London's Globe Theatre. Comedy will run April 9 through the 17th following a 50-city, 5 month national tour playing in repertory with Romeo and Juliet during the Company's 38th season.

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