'A Brush With Georgia O'Keeffe' To Close at St. Luke's Sunday, 9/28

A Brush With Georgia O'Keeffe, the acclaimed new play written by and starring Natalie Mosco as Georgia O'Keeffe, will play its final two performances this weekend with Saturday and Sunday matinees, September 27/28 at 2:00 PM at St. Luke's Theatre. The play, which opened on June 21, will have played 44 performances.

Ms. Mosco is presently looking for a new home for the play.  In the meantime, on  November 1, Natalie Mosco and cast will present a special performance of A Brush With Georgia O'Keeffe at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC in conjunction with the exhibit "Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities," which will feature 42 of O'Keeffe's paintings.  The exhibition, the first to pair these artists, runs from September 26, 2008 through January 4, 2009.

Directed by Broadway veteran Robert Kalfin with Scenic Design by Kevin Judge, Costume Design by Gail Cooper Hecht, Lighting Design by Paul Hudson, Projections Design by Marilys Ernst and Original Composition and Sound Design by Margaret Pine also features Virginia Roncetti and David Lloyd Walters in multiple roles.

Mosco's play follows the remarkable life of the celebrated American painter Georgia O'Keeffe. O'Keeffe, who was once torn between a career as an artist or musician, seemed to strike a balance between the two by infusing her painting with what she termed "visual music". As Alfred Stieglitz's model, muse and lover, she became the widely known subject for a long series of photographs that were part of his artistic legacy. But it was only after Stieglitz's death that O'Keeffe was finally free immerse herself in nature once again, the source that had truly defined her paintings and offered her 98 year old life its greatest meaning.

Natalie Mosco has been a performer, writer, choreographer, director and teacher on three continents. She played leading roles on Broadway (The Magic Show), in London (Grand Hotel) and was a member of the original Broadway production of HAIR.  She recently appeared in the Paper Mill Playhouse's acclaimed revival of Follies.  As a performer living in Australia, she became a well-known personality on television as well as on stage and is a founding member of Shakespeare Globe (Sydney) where she played Cleopatra in Antony & Cleopatra. Her own artwork has been exhibited at MOMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has just completed her Doctorate for the University of Western Sydney.

A Brush with Georgia O'Keeffe at St. Luke's Theatre (308 W 46th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues) plays its final two performances this Saturday and Sunday, September 27/28, matinees only at 2:00 PM. Tickets are $56.50 and $31.50. Student tickets are $26.50. To order tickets call Telecharge at (212) 239-6200 or telecharge.com.

Photo Credit Peter James Zielinski

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