Elizabeth Marvel Leads MTC's THAT FACE; Premieres 4/29

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Polly Stenham's THAT FACE will be directed by Sarah Benson (Blasted, Artistic Director of Soho Rep) and will feature three-time Obie winner Elizabeth Marvel (Top Girls, 50 Words). THAT FACE will begin previews on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I for a Tuesday, May 18, 2010 opening night.

THAT FACE is a powerful and darkly comic look at an affluent family in freefall. Mia has been suspended from boarding school. Her brother, Henry, has dropped out altogether. And Martha (Elizabeth Marvel), their mum, manipulates them all. Money can no longer fix their problems - now it's up to them. This Olivier Award-nominated play from Britain's fastest-rising young playwright premieres in New York with the director of last season's acclaimed Blasted.

Additional casting and creative team for THAT FACE will be announced in the coming weeks.

Manhattan Theatre Club's complete Broadway season at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre includes the acclaimed new production of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's THE ROYAL FAMILY, the New York premiere of Donald Margulies' TIME STANDS STILL, and the Broadway premiere of Margulies' COLLECTED STORIES. In addition to THAT FACE, the complete Off-Broadway season includes the current production of Lynn Redgrave's NIGHTINGALE and Bill Cain's EQUIVOCATION.

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Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country's most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. MTC productions have earned a total of 16 Tony Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes, an accomplishment unparalleled by a New York theatrical institution. MTC has their Broadway home at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and an Off-Broadway theatre at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). Renowned MTC productions include Ruined; The American Plan; Top Girls; Come Back, Little Sheba; Blackbird; Translations; Shining City; Rabbit Hole; Doubt; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Love! Valour! Compassion!; A Small Family Business; Sylvia; Putting It Together; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Crimes of the Heart; and Ain't Misbehavin'.

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Tickets for THAT FACE are available via New York City Center Box Office (131 West 55th Street), CityTix® (212-581-1212) and www.nycitycenter.org. Tickets for THAT FACE are $75.

Sarah Benson (Director) is Artistic Director of Soho Rep (since 2006). New York credits include: NY Premiere Sarah Kane's Blasted (Soho Rep) Drama Desk nomination, OBIE award; Erin Courtney's Quiver & Twitch (New York Stage & Film); The Lottery (HERE Arts Center). Sarah moved to New York from London on a Fulbright for Theater Direction. She co-curated the PRELUDE Festival at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center for two seasons. At Soho Rep she has commissioned and produced work by artists including: Annie Baker, Thomas Bradshaw, Cynthia Hopkins, Young Jean Lee, John Jesurun, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma and Anne Washburn.

Elizabeth Marvel (Martha) last appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls. Other Broadway credits include Seascape and An American Daughter (both for Lincoln Center Theater) as well as Taking Sides and The Seagull. She will appear this season at the Public Theater in Suzan-Lori Parks' new play, Book of Grace. Previous appearances at the Public include Henry V, Troilus and Cressida; King Lear; and Silence, Cunning, Exile. Other off-Broadway credits include Fifty Words (MCC Theatre), Ethan Coen's Almost an Evening and Woody Allen's A Secondhand Memory (both Atlantic Theater Company), Dark Matters (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Terrorism (The New Group), Meshugah (Naked Angels), Therese Raquin (Obie Award, CSC), Misalliance (Obie Award, Roundabout), Arts & Leisure (Playwrights Horizons), and at New York Theater Workshop: Hedda Gabler (Obie Award), A Streetcar Named Desire (Obie Award), Lydie Breeze, Shopping and f-ing, and Play Yourself. She has performed regionally at the McCarter Theatre, Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theatre, Stratford Theatre Festival, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Film and TV credits include: Holy Rollers, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, "A Dog Year"(HBO), Burn After Reading, Synecdoche, Pretty Bird, "The Good Wife," "Nurse Jackie," "30 Rock," "Past Lives," "The District" (series regular), "Kidnapped," "Homicide," "Law & Order," and "Law & Order: CI." Training: Juilliard.