INTERCHANGE Comes To WorkShop Theater Company's Main Stage 10/7

Opening their Main Stage season, WorkShop Theater Company will present Interchange, a new play by Ken Jaworowski, starting Thursday, October 7th for a four week run. Thomas Coté directs.

Interchange, a story that focuses on life, death and choice, draws together the lives of five seemingly disparate characters: A hard-driving businessman struggling to raise his grandson. A paroled convict hoping to find redemption. A shy college professor trying to win the approval of his students. A middle-aged office manager pressured to hide her secrets. And a haunted young man hungry for revenge. As their stories unfold in plots both tragic and comic, these desperate souls find themselves intertwined in each other's battles and dreams.

Ken Jaworowski's plays have been performed in New York and London. His other WorkShop Theater Company productions include Never Missed A Day and Certain Souls. Mr. Jaworowski is a staff editor for The New York Times and is a regular contributor to the Culture section of the paper.

Thomas Coté's directorial credits include The Devil and Billy Markham for Algonquin Productions, the Off-Broadway musical Sessions and National Pastime, performed at the Baseball Hall of Fame. For WorkShop Theater Company he directed Allan Knee's The Jazz Age, Levy Lee Simon's The Guest of Central Park West and Scott C. Sickles' Demon Bitch Goddess. Interchange marks his third WorkShop collaboration with Ken Jaworowski.

The cast includes Liz Amberly*, Cecily Benjamin*, Riley Jones-Cohen*, Daniel Damiano, Gerry Goodstein, Wende O'Reilly, Jeff Paul*, David M. Pincus*, Sean Singer and Shaun Bennet Wilson. *(Members of Actors' Equity)

Celebrating its 17th Season, WorkShop Theater Company, now under the helm of Artistic Director Scott C. Sickles and Managing Director David M. Pincus, continues to specialize in the development of new plays by the presentation of readings and workshops, as well as fully staged plays and musicals. The film Finding Neverland started out at the WorkShop as a stage play by Allen Knee. Three WorkShop developed plays have moved on to commercial NYC runs in the last three years, including Off-Broadway productions of A Brush with Georgia O'Keeffe and The Jazz Age in 2008.

Interchange begins at the WorkShop Theater Company on Thursday, October 7th and runs thru Saturday, October 30th in the Main Stage Theater (312 W 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues, 4th floor). The performance schedule is: Thur. October 7 thru Sat. October 9 and Mon. October 11 at 8PM, Wed. October 13 thru Sat. October 16 at 8PM, Wed. October 20 thru Sat. October 23 at 8PM and Wed. October 27 thru Sat. October 30 at 8PM. Tickets are $18; $15 for seniors and students. Go to http://workshoptheater.org/mainstage/2010/Interchange or call 866-811-4111 for tickets and information.

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