'What To Do When You Hate Your Friends' Extended Through 8/23

Four Chairs Theatre Company proudly announces an extension for What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends, an anti-social comedy written by award-winning playwright Larry Kunofsky and directed by Jacob Krueger (The Matthew Shepard Story). Originally slated to run through August 9, the new hit comedy has been extended through August 23 on Theatre Row, at The Lion Theatre located at 410 West 42 Street between 9 & 10 Avenues in NYC.

Performances run Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm. Tickets are now $25 and can be purchased online at http://www.TicketCentral.com or by calling 212-279-4200. For more information on the play visit http://www.HateAllYourFriends.com.

Variety's Sam Thielman raves saying "Just hilarious…a surprisingly wise exercise in reducing an audience of grown men and women to wheezing, hyperventilating laughter over the frustrations of adult relationships. Kunofsky has an intensely theatrical gift for comedy, and his cast and crew have risen to the challenge in this smart, heartfelt play. Kunofsky and Krueger should see if they can at least get a grant to hand out bullhorns to the audience so they can spread the word as they leave, massaging their aching sides." Complete Review: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937828.html?categoryid=33&cs=1

TimeOut NY's Amanda Cooper gave it 4 stars and went on to call it "a fun, even refreshing tale with a happyish ending. Director Jacob Krueger and his hugely talented cast get it: When we chuckle here, we're truly laughing at ourselves." Complete Review: http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/theater/43641/what-to-do-when-you-hate-all-your-friends

Back Stage's Mark Peikart dubbed it a PICK OF THE WEEK and went on to describe it as "Hilarious and heartbreaking."

Matt is a guy who hates all his friends. Celia is a woman at the center of The Friends, a secret group that has perfected friendship through special rules and a rigid ranking system. Can a guy who hates all his friends and a woman who needs friendship to go by-the-book figure out a way to spend time together without going mental? Set in a world of secret hottub parties, craigslist hookups, and the myriad of ways people try to control intimacy by keeping it away, this edgy and witty new comedy looks at how romance and friendship works – or doesn't work - in the way we live now.

Director Jacob Krueger is the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Four Chairs Theatre. His first movie, The Matthew Shepard Story (2002), won him the Writers Guild of America Paul Selvin Award and a Gemini Nomination for Best Screenplay. The NBC film, directed by Roger Spottiswoode (And the Band Played On), and produced by Goldie Hawn, was based on the life of gay hate-crime victim Matthew Shepard. Jacob is a member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

The cast includes Todd D'Amour (Obie Award-Winning Nita and Zita at HERE, Stanley at HERE, Red Tide Blooming at PS122), Carrie Keranen, Josh Lefkowitz (Help Wanted and Now What? at Ars Nova, Centerstage/Baltimore & Woolly Mammoth), Susan Louise O'Connor (2007 NYIT Best Actress Award for The Silent Concerto, Walk Two Moons at Lucille Lortel, Marion Bridge at Urban Stages) and Amy Staats (Drama Desk nominated Hell House, EST member, Clubbed Thumb's One Thing I Like To Say Is).

Larry Kunofsky, co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Four Chairs Theatre, is a New York-based playwright whose play A Guy Adrift in the Universe marked the first ever production for the company. He has been a resident at the Edward Albee Foundation, and is a three-time winner of the John Golden Award for Drama and a member of The Dramatists Guild.

Founded by award-winning writers Larry Kunofsky and Jacob Krueger in 2006, Four Chairs is more than just a production company. They're an artistic home for an ensemble of theatre creatives that includes both permanent and rotating members. In 2008, Four Chairs embarked on an ambitious new season, including the "Just Chairs" reading series (designed to foster the development of new work by emerging playwrights) and the upcoming production of What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends.

The 2008-2009 season will also mark the first year of a unique project with Interborough Repertory Theatre (IRT). Beginning in October 2008 Four Chairs will host an ensemble of four writers, four designers, four directors and four actors in a yearlong collaboration. Working in a cross-disciplinary mode, the ensemble will spend a full year exploring a theme to develop four new plays, which will ultimately be produced in Repertory at IRT.

The design/production team consists of Co-Producer Elizabeth Dembrowsky, Ryan Maeker (Sound Design/NYIT Award Winner for Dancing Vs. The Rat Experiment), Niluka Hotaling (Set Design), Gina Scherr (Lighting Design), Melissa Trn (Costume Design) and Sally Jane Kerschen-Sheppard (Production Manager).

Adult content - appropriate for ages 16 and up. Trains: A, C, E, 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, N, Q, R, S, W to 42 St.

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