LWT Announces Two Mainstage Comedies

Long Wharf Theatre announces a pair of hilariously intelligent comedies this spring playing on the Mainstage.

Assume the Position
Starring Robert Wuhl
Feb. 18-20
Emmy Award-winner Wuhl ("Arli$," Bull Durham, HBO) kicks off the LWT Extras spring series with Assume The Position. Based on a hit HBO special, Wuhl becomes the history teacher you never had (but wished you did)! Join him for an irreverent comedic history lesson that playfully examines some of the facts, myths, and myths-that-became-facts that have permeated American history. "I'm a history guy," Wuhl told the New York Times in an interview. "Spinning history is a way of making it fun, and if you make it entertaining and educational, you have something special."

Assume the Position plays on the Mainstage from Feb. 18-20, with shows on Friday, Feb. 18 at 8 pm, Saturday, Feb. 19 at 8 pm and Sunday, Feb. 20 at 2 pm. Tickets are $40.

You Say Tomato and I Say Shut Up
By Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn
March 18-20
"We're just not that into us," proclaim real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch ("Seinfeld", NPR) and Emmy Award winner Jeff Kahn (The 40 Year Old Virgin) in the hilarious and ultimately moving new play entitled You Say Tomato and I Say Shut Up, based on a memoir of their marriage. This hilarious "he-said, she-said" show proves that all you need is love and a healthy dose of complaining, co-dependence, and Pinot Noir. "So funny because it is so accurate. Kahn and Gurwitch illuminate the insanity of marriage. They make you want to embrace your spouse for the same reason you want to strangle them," said Ben Stiller.

You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up will play from March 18-20, with shows on Friday, March 18 at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 19 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 20 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $40.

For more information about the shows, visit www.longwharf.org or call 203-787-4282.

ABOUT THE THEATRE
Long Wharf Theatre (Gordon Edelstein, Artistic Director and Ray Cullom, Managing Director), entering its 46th season, is recognized as a leader in American theatre, producing fresh and imaginative revivals of classics and modern plays, rediscoveries of neglected works and a variety of world and American premieres. More than 30 Long Wharf productions have transferred virtually intact to Broadway or Off-Broadway, some of which include The Glass Menagerie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays Wit by Margaret Edson, The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer and The Gin Game by D.L. Coburn. The theatre is an incubator of new works, including last season's Have You Seen Us? by Athol Fugard. Long Wharf Theatre has received New York Drama Critics Awards, Obie Awards, the Margo Jefferson Award for Production of New Works, a Special Citation from the Outer Critics Circle and the Tony® Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre.

For more information, visit www.LongWharf.org.