Roundabout Releases Upstage Playgoers Guide to 'TOM DURNIN'

For all Roundabout productions, Education at Roundabout creates an issue of UPSTAGE, designed to enhance students' theatre-going experience. Each edition features interviews with the production's creative team members, contextual information about the play and teacher resources and activities.

The latest issue of UPSTAGE features interviews with David Morse, Steven Levenson, Christopher Denham and Jill Rafson, quotes from each of the designers about their process, and much more!

To read the Upstage Playgoers Guide to The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, click HERE.

Education at Roundabout uses theatre to enhance teacher practice and deepen student learning in New York City classrooms. Roundabout Theatre Company's education programs are supported, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. For more information about Roundabout's Education Department programming, visit www.roundabouttheatre.org/education.

From playwright Steven Levenson (Roundabout's acclaimed The Language of Trees) comes the world premiere about the price we pay for defaulting on those we love. Tom Durnin did the time for his white-collar crime. Now, he's determined to win back the respect he believes he deserves-even if that means ripping apart the new life his family has so carefully put together in his absence. Tom's son warily allows his father to camp out on his couch, hoping the man who let everyone down has finally turned a new page. After a lifetime of empty promises, can Tom find a place in a family that has worked so hard to move on without him?

The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin was commissioned by Roundabout Theatre Company following Levenson's New York debut with The Language of Trees in 2008 at Roundabout Underground. Levenson's play The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin is part of Roundabout's New Play Initiative, a collection of programs designed to foster and produce new work by emerging and established artists.

Tickets are available online at roundabouttheatre.org, by phone at (212) 719-1300, or in person at the Laura Pels Box Office (111 West 46thStreet). Tickets prices range from $71 - $81. The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin plays Tuesday through Saturday evening at 7:30PM with Wednesday, Saturday and Sundaymatinees at 2:00PM.

This play is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.

Roundabout Theatre Company presents a variety of plays, musicals, and new works on its five stages, each of which is specifically designed to enhance the needs of Roundabout's mission. Off-Broadway, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, with its simple sophisticated design, is perfectly suited to showcasing new plays. The grandeur of its Broadway home on 42nd Street, American Airlines Theatre, sets the ideal stage for the classics. Roundabout's Studio 54 provides an exciting and intimate Broadway venue for its musical and special event productions. The Stephen Sondheim Theatre offers a state of the art LEED certified Broadway theatre in which to stage major large-scale musical revivals. Together these distinctive homes serve to enhance Roundabout's work on each of its stages.

The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre reflects Roundabout's commitment to produce new works by established and emerging writers as well as revivals of classic plays. This state-of-the-art off-Broadway theatre and education complex is made possible by a major gift from The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. The Trust was created in 1986 by Harold Steinberg to promote and advance American Theatre as a vital part of our culture by supporting playwrights, encouraging the development and production of new work, and providing financial assistance to theatre companies across the country. Since its inception, the Trust has awarded over $45 million to more than 100 not-for-profit theatre organizations.

Roundabout Theatre Company's 2012-2013 season features The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin by Steven Levenson, directed by Scott Ellis.

The 2013-2014 season will include Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy, starring Roger Rees and Mary Elizabeth Mastriontonio, directed by Lindsay Posner; Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, starring Rebecca Hall and directed by Lyndsey Turner; Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, directed by Sam Gold; Donald Margulies' Dinner with Friends, directed by Pam MacKinnon; Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, directed by Daniel Aukin and Bekah Brunstetter's newly commissioned play, Cutie and Bear, directed by Evan Cabnet.

The national tour of Roundabout Theatre Company's Tony Award winning Anything Goes continues in cities throughout the United States in 2013. For more information, visit www.roundabouttheatre.org.

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