Kotis' Pig Farm Begins Off-Broadway Previews, 6/9

Greg Kotis' Pig Farm, presented by the Roundabout Theatre Company, will begin previews on Friday, June 9th and officially open on Tuesday, June 27th at Off-Broadway's Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre. The limited engagement is scheduled through September 3rd, 2006.

Pig Farm will be presented in collaboration with The Old Globe, San Diego, CA. Directed by John Rando, the show will feature John Ellison Conlee, Logan Marshall-Green and Tony Award-winners Katie Finneran and Denis O'Hare.

John Rando and Greg Kotis collaborate once again following their Tony Award-winning musical Rando received a 2002 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for Urinetown and has also helmed the Broadway productions of Urinetown.The Wedding Singer, The Dinner Party, A Thousand Clowns and Dance of the Vampires. Greg Kotis won 2002 Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score.

"Under a pot-bellied sky on a struggling pig farm somewhere in America, Tom (John Ellison Conlee), Tina (Katie Finneran) and their hired hand Tim (Logan Marshall-Green) fight to hold onto everything they have – namely, a herd of fifteen thousand restless pigs. Dumping sludge into the river has driven Tom to drink, and Tim seems to have caught Tina's eye, but when Teddy (Denis O'Hare), an officer of the Environmental Protection Agency arrives to inspect the operation, life on the farm explodes, implodes, then explodes again. Not literally, of course, but…you get the idea," state press notes.

Tickets to Roundabout Theatre Company's 40th anniversary season production of Pig Farm are available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212) 719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the Laura Pels Theatre box office (111 West 46th St). Ticket prices range from $56.25 to $66.25. Pig Farm will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.