Roundabout's DINNER WITH FRIENDS to Begin Previews Jan 17

Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that Dinner with Friends by Pulitzer Prize winnerDonald Margulies, directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon will open on February 13, 2014. The cast will include Jeremy Shamos as "Gabe," Darren Pettie as "Tom", Marin Hinkle as "Karen," and Maria Dizzia as "Beth."

Performances will begin on January 17, 2014 at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This is a limited engagement through April 13, 2014.

The design team includes Allen Moyer (Sets), Ilona Somogyi (Costumes), Jane Cox (Lights), and Joshua Schmidt (Original Music & Compositions).

Ever since Karen (Hinkle) and Gabe (Shamos) played matchmaker with their friends Beth (Dizzia) and Tom (Pettie), the two couples have been inseparable-going to the Vineyard every summer, raising their kids and enjoying countless dinners together. But when one marriage unexpectedly crumbles, the couples' lives begin to veer in opposite directions. Can these four friends move on to the next chapter without moving apart... or have they changed beyond recognition?

Wryly funny and richly layered, Dinner with Friends is a modern masterpiece about the path you choose, the millions you don't and the detours that make it worth the ride.

Dinner with Friends won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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 are $82. To be the first to know about tickets and other news, sign up for Roundabout's email club at www.roundabouttheatre.org. Roundabout subscribers save up to 40% on tickets to Dinner with Friends. Three play packages start at $225. Learn more at roundabouttheatre.org/subscribe.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: Dinner with Friends will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 7:30PM with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00PM.

BIOGRAPHIES:

Jeremy Shamos (Gabe). In 2012, Jeremy Shamos received a Tony nomination for his starring role in the Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Clybourne Park. Since then, He has appeared on Broadway with Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, and most recently in the Manhattan Theatre Club's Assembled Parties. He also landed roles in Alejandro Gonzales's latest film Birdman as well as the 2013 Woody Allen Summer Project. In the TV world, he's had recent guest appearances on "The Good Wife" and "Unforgettable", both for CBS, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman's pilot for Showtime "Trending Down". Prior Broadway includes Elling, Reckless and The Rivals. Off-Broadway: Clybourne Park(Drama League and Lortel Award nominations.); Animals Out of Paper (Second Stage, Drama Desk nominee); Engaged (Theatre for a New Audience, Obie Award); We Live Here and Corpus Christi (MTC); The New York Idea (Atlantic); 100 Saints You Should Know and Miss Witherspoon (Playwrights);Gutenberg! The Musical (Actors' Playhouse/59E59); Observe the Sons of Ulster... (LincolnCenter); Shakespeare (Abridged) (Century Center); Race and The Alchemist (CSC); Stranger (Vineyard); Hamlet, Cymbeline and Paris Commune (Public). Film: Taking Woodstock, Dedication, The Rebound, Trust the Man. TV: "The Michael Showalter" (pilot); "Fringe," "L&O Criminal Intent"; "Damages". MFA NYU Graduate School of Acting.

Darren Pettie (Tom). London: (National Theatre) Strange Interlude. Broadway: Butley. Off Broadway: Detroit (Playwrights Horizons); The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Collection (Atlantic Theatre Company); This, Spattern Pattern (Playwrights);Hillary (New Georges); Dedication of the Stuff of Dreams (Primary Stages); Hobson's Choice (Atlantic Theatre); Unwrap Your Candy (Vineyard Theatre);Measure for Measure (Delacorte); Regional and Festivals: How the Other Half Loves (Westport); Don't Dress for Dinner (Royal George); The Cry of the Reed (Huntington); The Taming of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare Festival); Dedication of the Stuff of Dreams (WTF). Film and Television:Taking Woodstock, The International, Ghost Town, Four Single Fathers. New AMC pilot 'Line of Sight', "Mad Men", "Ringer", "Scandal," "Rizzoli & Isles," "Pan Am," "Castle," "Prime Suspect," "Gossip Girl," "Cashmere Mafia," "Brothers and Sisters," "Without a Trace," "Numb3rs," "CSI," "Crossing Jordan," "Charmed."

Marin Hinkle (Karen). Marin Hinkle's television credits include playing Judith, Jake's mother, on the CBS award winning comedy series, "Two and a Half Men," for nine seasons. She also portrayed Judy (Sela Ward's sister) on "Once and Again" and played Samantha on last season's NBC show "Deception." Hinkle has had recurring roles on "Don't Trust the Bin Apartment 23," "Brothers and Sisters," and "The Sarah Silverman Program. Her various guest starring roles include "Without a Trace," "House," "ER," "Private Practice," "My Own Worst Enemy,""Army Wives," and all three of the "Law and Order" shows. Her feature film credits include: My Eleventh, Friends with Money, Turn the River, I Am Sam, Frequency, Dark Blue, Final, Rails and Ties, What Just Happened?, Quarantine, Imagine That, The Haunting of Molly Hartley, Weather Girl, and the upcoming Commencement. Hinkle's Broadway theater credits include Electra, A Thousand Clowns and The Tempest. Marin has extensive Off Broadway credits which include such plays as Luce, RX, Graceland, Miss Julie, The Dybbuk, Blue Window, Jayson with a Y, Ambrosio, Sabina, and Wonderful Time. Marin has balanced her work in television with her love for theatre and has been proud to have originated roles in premiere productions of many news plays in both New York and Los Angeles. Born in Tanzania, Hinkle grew up in Boston. She earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a master's degree from New York University.

Maria Dizzia (Beth). New York credits include: Belleville (2013 Drama Desk Nomination), Uncle Vanya, Cradle and All, In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), (2010 Tony Award nomination); The Hallway Trilogy, The Drunken City, Eurydice, The Wooden Breeks, Pullman Car, Hiawatha, Apparition, Alice the Magnet, Cause for Alarm, and Gone Missing. Regional credits include Belleville and Iphigenia at Aulis (Yale Rep); Not Waving(Williamstown Theatre Festival); Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven (Young Jean Lee's Theatre Company); Trouble in Mind (CENTERSTAGE); Blur(Dallas Theater Center); Fetes de la Nuit (Berkeley Rep Theater); Unusual Acts of Devotion, Sheridan (La Jolla Playhouse); Proof (Geva Theater); Romeo and Juliet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Film and Television: Lola Versus, The Happy Sad, Keep The Lights On, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married, Down the Shore, The Other Woman, A New York Thing, Kiddie Ride, "Louie", "Fringe", "Smith", "Law & Order", and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent". Maria can currently be seen as Polly on "Orange is the New Black". Upcoming: Noah Baumbach's While We're Young. Maria received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego and is an Associate Artist with The Civilians.

Donald Margulies (Playwright). Donald Margulies's plays include Time Stands Still, Brooklyn Boy, Dinner with Friends, Sight Unseen, Collected Stories, Coney Island Christmas, The Loman Family Picnic, God of Vengeance, What's Wrong with this Picture?, Found A Peanut, The Model Apartment and Shipwrecked! An Entertainment - The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (As Told By Himself). He has won a Lucille Lortel Award, two American Theatre Critics New Play Citations, two Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards, two OBIE Awards, one Tony Award nomination, two Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Awards, five Drama Desk Award nominations, two Pulitzer Prize nominations and one Pulitzer Prize. His works have been performed at major theatres across the United States and around the world. Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature, and was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre. Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. He is an adjunct professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University.

Pam MacKinnon (Director). Broadway: Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award, Best Direction of a Play, 2013); ClybournePark (Tony Award nomination, Best Direction of a Play, 2012). Pam recently directed the world premiere of Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman for South Coast Repertory, as well as Craig Lucas' The Lying Lesson at The Atlantic Theater. Pam directed Horton Foote's Harrison, TX at Primary Stages, and Itamar Moses' Completeness at Playwrights Horizons, as well as the world premiere at South Coast Repertory. She also directed the world premiere of David Wiener's Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen Playhouse, and Rachel Axler's Smudge at Women's Project in 2010. Other credits include: Edward Albee's Occupant at The Signature Theater; A Lifetime Burning by Cusi Cram at Primary Stages; Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance at Arena Stage with Kathleen Chalfant and Ellen McLaughlin; All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren at Intiman Theatre; The Four of Us by Itamar Moses at Manhattan Theater Club; Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's Good Boys and True (Steppenwolf). Pam directed the world and New York premieres of Edward Albee's Peter and Jerry (Hartford Stage and Second Stage); Bruce Norris' The Unmentionables (Woolly Mammoth) and the world premieres of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair (South Coast Repertory); John Fugelsang's All the Wrong Reasons (New York Theater Workshop) and The Four of Us by Itamar Moses (The Old Globe). Further credits include Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Alley Theater, Vienna Theater); David Mamet's Romance (Goodman Theatre); Gina Giofriddo's After Ashley (Philadelphia Theater Company); Edward Albee's Play About the Baby(Philadelphia Theater Company, Goodman Theatre) and Bach at Leipzig by Itamar Moses (NYTW); amongst others. Pam is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, the Women's Project Directors' Forum and the Drama League Fall Production Fellowship. Pam serves as the Board Chair of the downtown company Clubbed Thumb and is a member of SSD&C.

Roundabout Theatre Company is committed to producing the highest quality theatre with the finest artists, sharing stories that endure, and providing accessibility to all audiences. A not-for-profit company, Roundabout fulfills its mission each season through the production of classic plays and musicals; development and production of new works by established and emerging writers; educational initiatives that enrich the lives of children and adults; and a subscription model and audience outreach programs that cultivate and engage all audiences.

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.

Roundabout's 2013-2014 season includes Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, directed by Daniel Aukin; The Old Vic Theatre Company's production of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alessandro Nivola, Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner; Sophie Treadwell's Machinal, starring Rebecca Hall and directed by Lyndsey Turner; Donald Margulies' Dinner with Friends, directed by Pam MacKinnon; Masteroff, Kander & Ebb's Cabaret, starring Alan Cumming, Michelle Williams, directed by Sam Mendes & Rob Marshall (co-director/choreographer) and Bekah Brunstetter's newly commissioned play, Cutie and Bear, directed by Evan Cabnet.

Roundabout Underground kicks off their 7th season this fall with the world premiere of Too Much, Too Much, Too Many by Meghan Kennedy, directed by Sheryl Kaller.

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. Follow ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY on Twitter: @RTC_NYC and on Facebook.

Pictured: Jeremy Shamos. Photo Credit: Walter McBride.

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