New York Theatre Workshop to Extend THREE PIANOS Thru 1/16/11

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that due to popular demand its acclaimed production of Three Pianos, written, arranged, and performed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy, and directed by Rachel Chavkin, will extend one week through Sunday, January 16. Three Pianos plays at NYTW, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery.

A theatrical explosion of Franz Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, Three Pianos is a colorful and imaginative evening of chaos that explores Schubert's music, life, and times. On a blustery winter night three friends-each manning a piano-perform Schubert's famous work adding their own fantastical touches and inventive arrangements, while drinking and grappling with fundamental questions about the nature of music. Eventually the three slip into a wild reenactment of a "Schubertiad," a party similar to ones thrown by Schubert and his friends, and the audience joins in (with complimentary wine!) on an evening of hilarity and heartbreak, not to mention compositional mayhem, shifting rivalries, and some unfortunate butchery of the German language.

New York Theatre Workshop, now celebrating its 28th season, is a leading voice in the world of Off-Broadway and within the theatre community in New York and around the world. NYTW has emerged as a premiere incubator of important new theatre, honoring its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape our lives. In addition, NYTW is known for its innovative adaptations of classic repertory. Each season, from its home in New York's East Village neighborhood, NYTW presents three to five new productions, over 80 readings, and numerous workshop productions, for over 45,000 audience members. Over the past 28 years, NYTW has developed and produced over 100 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson's Rent, Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul, Doug Wright's Quills, Claudia Shear's Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde, Paul Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla, and Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Far Away, and A Number, and Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's Aftermath. The 2002 remounting of Martha Clarke's seminal work Vienna: Lusthaus and subsequent American tour was one of the longest-running productions in NYTW's history. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies, and minority artist fellowships. In 1991, NYTW received an OBIE Award for Sustained Achievement and in 2000 was designated to be part of the Leading National Theatres Program by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Three Pianos plays at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery. The regular performance schedule is Tuesday at 7:00pm; Wednesday through Friday at 8:00pm; Saturday at 3:00pm and 8:00pm; Sunday at 2:00pm and 7:00pm. There will be a special student matinee on Thursday, January 6 at 1pm. There is no performance on Christmas Day. Three Pianos runs through Sunday, January 16, 2010. Tickets start at $65 and may be purchased online at www.ticketcentral.com, 24 hours a day, seven days a week or by phoning Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200. For exact dates and times of performance, visit www.nytw.org.

An AfterWords post-performance audience discussion will take place Saturday, January 8 after the 8pm performance.

NYTW is pleased make theatre accessible to everyone with its $20 CheapTix Sundays program. A dedicated number of tickets for Sunday evening performances at 7:00pm can be purchased in person at the NYTW Box Office for only $20. Tickets may be purchased in advance, payable in cash only and are available to all audience members.
NYTW also has $20 student tickets available for all performances. Student tickets may be purchased in advance from the NYTW Box Office with valid student identification.

The NYTW Box office is open 1:00pm to 6:00pm, Tuesday through Saturday.