Limited Number of Tickets Now on Sale for CSC's THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH Workshop with Mandy Patinkin & Taylor Mac

Classic Stage Company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Greg Reiner, in association with Staci Levine, will present Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin and acclaimed actor/performance artist Taylor Mac in THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH: AN APOCALYPTIC VAUDEVILLE, a workshop presentation with direction and choreography by Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, and music direction by Paul Ford, for a strictly limited engagement from Saturday, December 14 thru Tuesday, December 31. Performances of THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH: AN APOCALYPTIC VAUDEVILLE will be presented at the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street, NYC).

Following a flood of biblical proportions, the last two people on the planet discover their common language is song and dance. Together they chronicle the rise and fall and hopeful rise again of humankind through music that runs the gamut from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Sondheim, R.E.M. and Queen.

Set design for THE LAST TWO PEOPLE ON EARTH: AN APOCALYPTIC VAUDEVILLE is by Beowulf Boritt, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Ken Billington and sound design by Daniel J. Gerhard.

A limited number of seats will be available for sale to the general public beginning Thursday, November 7 at noon atwww.classicstage.org or by calling 212-352-3101 or 866-811-4111. The performance schedule is 12/14 at 3 pm & 8 pm; 12/15 at 3 pm; 12/17 at 7 pm; 12/18 at 7 pm; 12/19 at 7 pm; 12/20 at 8 pm; 12/21 at 3pm & 8 pm; 12/22 at 3 pm; 12/23 at 7 pm; 12/26 at 7 pm; 12/27 at 8 pm; 12/28 at 3 pm & 8pm; 12/29 at 3 pm; 12/30 at 7 pm (no performances on 12/24 or 12/25). Tickets start at $65.

On New Year's Eve, Tuesday, December 31, there will also be a special final performance benefiting CSC, including a champagne reception and access to the closing night party. Tickets for New Year's Eve start at $250. For information and tickets, email Gretchen H. Page, Director of Individual & Major Gifts, at gretchen.page@classicstage.org or call (212) 677-4210, ext. 22.

Mandy Patinkin. In his 1980 Broadway debut, Mandy won a Tony Award for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and was nominated in 1984 for his starring role as George in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George. In 1991 he returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden and in 1997 played a sold-out engagement of his one-man show, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, with all profits benefiting five charitable organizations. Mandy's other solo concerts, Dress Casual, Celebrating Sondheimand Mamaloshen have been presented both on and off Broadway. In 2009 he celebrated the 20th Anniversary of performing his solo concerts with a two-week run of all of his concerts in rep at New York's Public Theater, the very space he began his concert career. Mandy continued the celebration with a critically acclaimed two-week run of Mandy Patinkin in Concert in London's West End at the Duke of York's Theatre.

Mandy's other stage credits include: the world premiere of Compulsion (Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep and The Public Theater), Paradise Found(London's Menier Chocolate Factory), The Tempest (Classic Stage Company), Enemy of the People (Williamstown Theater Festival), The Wild Party, Falsettos, The Winter's Tale, The Knife, Leave It to Beaver is Dead, Rebel Women, Hamlet, Trelawney of the 'Wells,' The Shadow Box, The Split, Savages, and Henry IV, Part I.

Feature film credits include: Everybody's Hero, The Choking Man, Pinero, The Adventures of Elmo In Grouchland, Lulu on the Bridge, Men with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl (1984 Golden Globe nomination), The Music of Chance, Daniel, Ragtime, Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll Street, True Colors, Maxie, and Squanto: Indian Warrior.

Mandy won a 1995 Emmy Award for his performance in the CBS series "Chicago Hope," and recently starred in the CBS series "Criminal Minds" as FBI profiler Jason Gideon and in the Showtime Original Series "Dead Like Me" as the reaper Rube Sofer. Mandy currently stars in the Emmy Award-winning Showtime Original Series "Homeland" as CIA agent Saul Berenson, for which he received an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award this year as Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

In 1989, Mandy began his concert career at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. This coincided with the release of his first solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin. Since then he has toured extensively, appearing to sold-out audiences across the United States, Canada, London, and Australia, performing songs from writers including Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin, among others. In 1990 he released his second solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin In Concert: Dress Casual on CBS Records. His 1994 recording, Experiment, on the Nonesuch label, features songs from nine decades of popular music from Irving Berlin to Alan Menken. Also recorded on the Nonesuch label are Oscar & Steve, Leonard Bernstein's New York, Kidults and Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim. In 1998 he debuted his most personal project, Mamaloshen, a collection of traditional, classic and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish. The recording of Mamaloshen won the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany's equivalent of the Grammy Award). In October 2007, Mandy debuted a new concert with dear friend Patti LuPone and they continue touring their show An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin throughout the US, Australia, New Zealand, and most recently during a 9-week Broadway run at the Barrymore Theatre. Mandy continues to collaborate withAn Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Nathan Gunn.

TAYLOR MAC. Taylor Mac is a theater artist, which means a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, cabaret performer, performance artist, and sometime director and producer. Time Out New York has called Taylor "One of the most exciting theater artists of our time" (named the best cabaret performer in New York, in 2012, and a future theater legend). American Theater Magazine says "Mac is one of this country's most heroic and disarmingly funny playwrights." The New Yorker says, of Mac's acting in Brecht's Good Person of Szechwan, "One of contemporary theater's more unforgettable performances." The New York Times says of Mac in general, "Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming every one of them."

Taylor's full-length plays include The Fre, Hir, The Walk Across America For Mother Earth and The Lily's Revenge (both published by Playscripts), The Young Ladies Of (published by New York Theatre Review), The Be(A)st of Taylor Mac, Red Tide Blooming (published by New York Theater Experience), Okay, Maurizio Pollini, and his first play The Hot Month.

Taylor's concerts of original songs and covers include: A 24-Hour History of Popular Music (24 decades of songs that can be performed as individual decade concerts or over the course of 24 days all together), Comparison is Violence or The Ziggy Stardust Meets Tiny Tim Songbook,Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam, and The Face of Liberalism.

Current/recent performances include: the title character in Brecht's Good Person of Szechwan at The Public Theater (Foundry Theater Production), Puck/Egeus in Classic Stage Company's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the title character in Taylor's play The Lily's Revenge at the American Repertory Theater.

Taylor has performed at New York's Lincoln Center and Public Theater, The Sydney Opera House, The San Francisco MOMA and Opera House, Stockholm's Sodra Teatern, The Spoleto Festival, The Bumbershoot Festival, The Time Based Arts Festival, Dublin's Project Arts Center, London's Soho Theater, and literally hundreds of other theaters, museums, music halls, cabarets, and festivals around the globe.

Awards, grants, and fellowships include: an Obie, a McKnight National Commissioning Award, two Sundance Theater Lab Residencies, a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, three MAP Grants, a Creative Capital Grant, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for playwriting, The James Hammerstein Award for playwriting, three Brighton Best of Festival Awards, a Dallas Theater Critics Forum Award for Best Touring Show, a Chicago Jeff Award Nomination, three GLAAD Media Award Nominations, an Edinburgh Festival Herald Angel Award, two New York State Council on the Arts Grants, an Edward Albee Foundation Residency, The Franklin Furnace Grant, a Peter S. Reed Grant, The Ensemble Studio Theatre's New Voices Fellowship in playwriting, a Mabou Mines Suite (with collaborator Elizabeth Swados), and the one he is most honored by, an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. Taylor is a proud alumnus of the HERE Arts Center resident artists program and is currently a New York Theater Workshop Usual Suspect and a member of New Dramatists.

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