Rattlestick Extends Halley Feiffer's HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS AND THEN KILL THEM Through 12/14

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long have announced that Halley Feiffer's How to Make Friends and then Kill Them, directed by Kip Fagan, will extend performances through Saturday, December 14 at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place. How to Make Friends and then Kill Them was originally scheduled to close Sunday, December 8.

How To Make Friends and then Kill Them opened Thursday, November 7, 2013 to strong notices. Elisabeth Vincentelli of the New York Post called it a "wicked comedy...a tasty bonbon." Joe Dziemianowicz of the Daily News called it disturbingly funny." HeLen Shaw of Time Out New York says, "There's great stuff here." And David Gordon of Theatermania wrote that the play is an "uproarious and deeply unsettling new dark comedy" and "laugh-out-loud funny."

In How to Make Friends and then Kill Them, Ada and Sam, left to their own devices by their alcoholic mother, cultivate an insular world into which they soon draw a third wheel - a pockmarked, limping wallflower named Dorrie. In the years spanning childhood to young adulthood, these three troubled girls learn to lean on each other completely, finding ways to fill each other up and to tear each other down. But when a horrible accident turns their reality upside down, they find they must decide whether they will continue to foster their familiar, codependent cycle, or whether they will break free, with or without each other's aid.

The cast of How to Make Friends and then Kill Them is Katya Campbell, Keira Keeley, and Jen Ponton.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is an award-winning company that has produced over sixty world premieres in the past eighteen seasons and was the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award for developing new and innovative work. Previous plays include Two Boys in a Bed, Message to Michael, Carpool, Volunteer Man, A Trip to the Beach, Ascendancy, Stuck, Vick's Boy, The Messenger, Saved or Destroyed, Neil's Garden, My Special Friend, Faster, Bliss, St. Crispin's Day, Where We're Born, Five Flights, Boise, Finer Noble Gases, That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play, God Hates The Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny, Miss Julie, Acts of Mercy: passion-play, Cagelove, It Goes Without Saying, Dark Matters, Stay, American Sligo, Rag and Bone, War, Geometry of Fire, The Amish Project, Killers and Other Family, Post No Bills, Blind, Little Doc, underneathmybed, There Are No More Big Secrets, The Hallway Trilogy, Carson McCullers Talks About Love, The Wood, Asuncion, Horsedreams, Yosemite, Massacre (Sing to Your Children), 3C, Through the Yellow Hour, A Summer Day, The Revisionist starring Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg, Buyer & Cellar (2013 Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Awards for Outstanding Solo Performance), Basilica, Charles Ives Take Me Home, The Hilltown Plays, the Off-Broadway GLAAD Award-nominated hit The Last Sunday in June, Craig Wright's The Pavilion (Drama Desk nominee-Outstanding Play of 2005) and Lady (Drama Desk nominee-Outstanding Play of 2008), as well as The Aliens by Annie Baker (2010 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play).

How to Make Friends and then Kill Them plays Mondays and Wednesdays at 7pm, Thursdays and Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 2pm and 8pm, and Sundays at 7pm at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 224 Waverly Place, west of Seventh Avenue South, between West 11th and Perry Streets. Individual tickets to How to Make Friends and then Kill Them and memberships for Rattlestick's 2012-2013 season are now available and may be purchased at www.rattlestick.org or by calling OvationTix at 866.811.4111. Individual tickets are $55, Student tickets are $10, and under-30 tickets are $15. Rattlestick has specially priced memberships available for groups and theater artists. For more information about How to Make Friends and then Kill Them and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, visit www.rattlestick.org.