Tickets to Broadway-Bound AIRLINE HIGHWAY at Steppenwolf on Sale Tomorrow

Steppenwolf Theatre Company continues its 2014/15 subscription season with the world premiere production of Airline Highway, written by Lisa D'Amour (Detroit) and directed by Joe Mantello (The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, Wicked). Steppenwolf's production will open on Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC)'s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre following its world premiere engagement in Chicago. Airline Highway begins previews December 4, 2014 (opening night is December 14, 2014; press performances are December 13 at 3pm and December 16 at 7:30pm) and runs through February 8, 2015 in Steppenwolf's Downstairs Theatre (1650 N Halsted St). Single tickets to Airline Highway ($20 - $86) go on sale Friday, September 26 at 11am through Audience Services (1650 N Halsted St), at 312-335-1650 or steppenwolf.org.

In the parking lot of The Hummingbird, a once-glamorous motel on New Orleans' infamous Airline Highway, a group of friends gather. A rag-tag collection of strippers, hustlers and philosophers have come together to celebrate the life of Miss Ruby, an iconic burlesque performer who has requested a funeral before she dies. The party rages through the night as old friends resurface to pay their respects. A world premiere from the author of Detroit, Airline Highway is a boisterous and moving ode to the outcasts that make life a little more interesting.

Airline Highway was originally commissioned and developed by Steppenwolf Theatre Company with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Lisa D'Amour's critically acclaimed production of Detroit also received its world premiere production at Steppenwolf and was directed by ensemble member Austin Pendleton. Detroit received a second production under Pendleton's direction at the Royal National Theater, as well as several subsequent productions. Detroit won the Obie Award for Best New American Play in 2013 and was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn prize. Airline Highway is D'Amour's first full-length play about New Orleans, the city where she was raised and currently resides.

The production team for Steppenwolf's production of Airline Highway includes: Scott Pask (scenic design), David Zinn (costume design), Japhy Weideman (lighting design) and Fitz Patton (sound design and original composition). Additional credits include: Erica Daniels (casting), Malcolm Ewen (stage manager) and Christine D. Freeburg (assistant stage manager).