Rattlestick Delays Previews Of THE HALLWAY TRILOGY By One Day, Begins 2/8

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has announced a one day delay for the start of performances for its world premiere of The Hallway Trilogy, three full length plays set fifty years apart (1953, 2003, 2053) by Adam Rapp. Previews originally scheduled to commence on February 6, will now begin on Tuesday, February 8 at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (224 Waverly Place - off Seventh Avenue South between W. 11th & Perry Streets). The official opening of all three parts, originally set for Sunday, February 20, has also been changed. Each part of The Hallway Trilogy will now open in order on consecutive evenings - Tuesday, February 22, Wednesday, February 23 and Thursday, February 24 at 8pm. The Hallway Trilogy is scheduled to run through Sunday, March 20.

"Adam broached the idea of doing a trilogy back in 2007," said David Van Asselt, Rattlestick's Artistic Director. "My first thought was ‘I wonder who will produce that?' Adam's first thought was, ‘Rattlestick. I'm writing it for Rattlestick.' Weaving themes of suffering and redemption into a sequence of moments in the same lower east side hallway, fifty years apart, Adam has found a different and, for me, a compelling take on the nature of a trilogy, on what binds people together and how they move forward into the future. We are completely re-orienting the theater in order to accommodate the long hallway in which the plays take place. It is certainly the most ambitious project we have ever undertaken."

The Hallway Trilogy
fourteen actors performing three plays in rep
one design team
three directors

Part 1, Rose, directed by Adam Rapp, takes place on the evening of November 28th, 1953, the day following the death of Eugene O'Neill.

Part 2, Paraffin, directed by Daniel Aukin, is set on the first evening of the 2003 New York City blackout.

Part 3, Nursing, directed by Trip Cullman, is set in 2053 in a disease-free New York when the tenement has been transformed into a museum where young men and women in need of cash are injected with old-fashioned diseases for the amusement of the public.
The Hallway Trilogy cast includes William Apps, Rob Beitzel, Guy Boyd, Louis Cancelmi, Maria Dizzia, Logan Marshall-Green, Sue Jean Kim, Nick Lawson, Sarah Lemp, Danny Mastrogiorgio, Julianne Nicholson, Jeremy Strong, Katherine Waterston and Stephen Tyrone Williams.

The creative team includes Beowulf Boritt (scenic design), Jessica Pabst (costume design), Tyler Micoleau (lighting design), Eric Shim (sound design), Eugenia Furneaux-Arends (properties) and Katie Takacs (technical direction). Melissa Mae Gregus and Meredith Dixon are Production Stage Managers. Michael Denis and Rebecca Goldstein-Glaze are Assistant Stage Managers.

The performance schedule for The Hallway Trilogy is as follows:

Part 1, Rose plays Tuesdays at 8pm
Part 2, Paraffin plays Wednesdays at 8pm
Part 3, Nursing plays Thursdays at 8pm

Parts 1, 2 and 3 will run in rotating repertory on Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 4pm
and Saturday at 8pm.

Sunday Marathon Days - All three (3) parts in order - 1pm, 4pm and 8pm.
Each play runs about 90 minutes.

Tickets are $99 (for all three plays) or $55 individually and are available by calling SmartTix at (212) 868-4444 or online at www.smarttix.com. For more information, please visit www.rattlestick.org.

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