Atlantic's Harold Pinter Double Bill Begins 11/3
By: Gabrielle Sierra Oct. 29, 2010
Atlantic returns to the work of Tony Award® and Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter, (the first major production of his work to be done in NYC since his death in 2008) following its critically hailed 2005 production of his first and last plays The Room and Celebration.
DIRECTORDirector Karen Kohlhaas is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company who returns to staging the work of Harold Pinter following her acclaimed production of The Hothouse at Atlantic. Karen most recently directed the world premiere of Annie Baker's Body Awareness at Atlantic.STARRING
Larry Bryggman (Tony Award® nominated for Proof; David Mamet's Romance at Atlantic)
Lisa Emery (Atlantic's Gabriel; The Women on Broadway)
Rebecca Henderson (The Retributionists at Playwrights Horizons; The Misanthrope at Classic Stage Company)
Matt McGrath (Broadway's Cabaret & A Streetcar Named Desire)
Darren Pettie (Atlantic's Hobson's Choice; This at Playwrights Horizons)In THE COLLECTION (1961), a 4:00am phone call and a surprise visitor set off a series of conversations
about potential infidelities among two couples. And a middle-aged woman who has been asleep in a
hospital room awakens after thirty years and must reorient herself to a greatly changed world in A KIND
OF ALASKA (1982), which was inspired by the work of Oliver Sacks in his seminal book, Awakenings.
Previews begin: Wednesday, November 3
Opening night: Monday, November 22
Limited engagement through: Sunday, December 12SCHEDULE:
THE COLLECTION & A KIND OF ALASKA will play Tuesday-Saturday at 8pm, with Wednesday and
Saturday performances at 2pm and Sunday performances at 3pm.There will be a 7pm performance on Sunday November 7. No performance on Thursday November 25 (Thanksgiving). No matinee on Wednesday December 1.TICKETS:
All tickets are $65 and available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (ticketcentral.com), in person
at the Ticket Central box office or in person at the ATLANTIC STAGE 2 box office located at 330 West
16th Street (between Eighth and Ninth Avenues).
Membership, wheelchair seating, group sales: 212-691-5919, extension 1092. www.atlantictheater.org
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