The Pasadena Playhouse (Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director and Charles Dillingham, interim Executive Director), announced today that South Coast Repertory's (SCR) production of August Wilson's JITNEY, directed by Ron OJ Parson, will transfer to The Pasadena Playhouse immediately following its SCR engagement. Performances will begin June 21 through July 15, with an official press opening on Sunday, June 24, 2012, at 5:00 p.m.
"I am extremely happy to enter into this collaboration with my well respected colleagues at South Coast Repertory to bring their production of this play to the stage of The Playhouse," said Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director of The Pasadena Playhouse. "JITNEY is one of the best of the canon of plays created by a man who is surely one of the greatest American Playwrights of the 20th Century. I am honored to have August's work at our theatre once again, and I look forward to the theatrical electricity that I know this fine group of actors will bring to these great words.""We are pleased to bring SCR's production of JITNEY to The Pasadena Playhouse and look forward to sharing this important drama with the Pasadena audience and our colleagues," said Marc Masterson, South Coast Repertory's Artistic Director.
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