'Sound and the Fury' Extends at NYTW

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) Artistic Director James C. Nicola and Managing Director William Russo have announced that due to critical acclaim and sold-out houses THE SOUND AND THE FURY (April Seventh, 1928), will extend its run through Sunday, June 1, at NYTW, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery.  

Based on part one of the novel by William Faulkner, created by Elevator Repair Service (ERS), and directed by John Collins, The Sound and The Fury (April Seventh, 1928) opened on Tuesday, April 29 to rave notices.

           
Written by Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner in 1929, The Sound and the Fury tells the story of the decline of the Compson family of fictional Yoknapatawpha county, Mississippi.  A once noble clan descended from a Civil War hero, the family falls victim to many of the shortcomings Faulkner believed were the problems of the reconstructed South—racism, greed, selfishness—thereby showing how the ideals and life of the old South could not easily be maintained or preserved in the post-Civil War era.  April Seventh, 1928, part one of the novel, is told from the point of view of Benjy Compson, who is mute with the mind of a child.

Elevator Repair Service, a theater ensemble, was founded by John Collins and a group of actors in 1991.  The ensemble's body of work combines elements of slapstick comedy, hi-tech and lo-tech design, vaudeville, both literary and found text, found objects and discarded furniture, and the group's own highly developed style of choreography.  Recently, ERS' focus has turned to literature with work based on the fiction of Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack Kerouac, and, now, William Faulkner.  These include the Bessie Award-winning Room Tone (2002-2004), No Great Society (2007 at NYTW's 4th Street Theatre), and Gatz, the group's highly acclaimed marathon performance of The Great Gatsby, which continues to tour the U.S. and Europe and will next be seen at the Dublin Theatre Festival.

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW), now celebrating its 25th 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 four to six new productions, over 80 readings, and numerous workshop productions, for over 60,000 audience members. Over the past twenty-five 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. 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.

The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) plays at New York Theatre Workshop, 79 East 4th Street, between Second Avenue and Bowery, through June 1. The regular performance schedule is Tuesday at 7:00pm, Wednesday through Saturday at 8:00pm, and Sunday at 2:00pm and 7:00pm.  Tickets are $65 and may be purchased online at www.telecharge.com, 24 hours a day, seven days a week or by phoning Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200.  For exact dates and times of performance, call Telecharge.com.  For more information about The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928), visit www.nytw.org.

These performances are made possible, in part, with public funds from The National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.  The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928) is also supported with funds from The Edward T. Cone Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Alliance of Resident Theaters-N.Y., The J.P. Morgan-Chase Fund for Small Theatres, Altria Group, Inc., The Mental Insight Foundation, and the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant Program, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Theatre Initiative.

Maintaining its commitment to making theatre accessible to all theatergoers, NYTW continues its CheapTix Sundays program in which all tickets for all Sunday evening performances will cost $20. Tickets may be purchased in advance, payable in cash only, and are available in person only at the NYTW Box Office. And for all performances, student tickets cost $20, based on availability, and can 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.

 

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