Women's Project Extends "OR," Through 12/13

Or, Liz Duffy Adams's restoration-style, fast-paced, three-hander comedy about Aphra Behn trying to get out of the spy trade and into show biz, directed by Wendy McClellan and featuring Kelly Hutchinson, Andy Paris and Maggie Siff, has extended its acclaimed run through Sunday, December 13, at Women's Project, 424 West 55th Street.

"This is the first time in recent memory that Women's Project has had to extend a run due to ticket demand and critical acclaim," said Producing Artistic Director Julie Crosby, who took over the leadership of Women's Project in 2006 and restored the three-decade-old institution to fiscal and artistic health.

In the recent years, the favorable critical reception of Women's Project's new plays, Catherine Trieschmann's crooked, Trista Baldwin's Sand, and Saviana Stanescu's Aliens with Extraordinary
Skills, has put Women's Project back on the map. Prominent female directors Liz Diamond and Anne Bogart have returned to work at Women's Project. Even Virginia Woolf's only play, Freshwater, received its first New York professional production on Women's Project's stage.

"With all the recent statistics that show women playwrights and directors have a long way to go for parity in the professional theater, Julia Miles's original vision to promote women theatre artists by putting women's work on stage is, sadly, as valid today as it was in 1978," Dr. Crosby said.

Maggie Siff of Sons of Anarchy and Mad Men fame plays Aphra Behn with a rather complicated love life. Aphra Behn is getting out of the spy trade and into show biz, if she can only write her play without interruptions. Kelly Hutchinson and Andy Paris spin through the play as multiple characters of varying genders including 17th century A-listers Nell Gwynne, King Charles II, and super-spy and double-agent William Scott. While war rages and Aphra and her friends celebrate free love, cross-dressing and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s start to look a lot like the 1960s. Verse or prose, now or then, love or death... and a lot of kissing.

Performances between now and November 25 are Mondays & Tuesdays at 7:00pm, Thursdays-Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm. (Please note early 7:00pm curtains Monday and Tuesday evenings) No performances Wednesday, November 18 and 25, and Thanksgiving Day, November 26.

Beginning November 27, the schedule gets funky, so pay attention: Or, performs Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesday at 7:00pm, Thursdays and Saturday evenings at 8:00pm, Saturday matinees at 2:00pm and Sunday matinees at 3:00pm. There is only one Friday evening performance, November 27. THERE ARE NO PERFORMANCES FRIDAYS, DECEMBER 4 AND 11.

Single are $52.00 and are on sale now at www.Telecharge.com <http://www.telecharge.com/> or 212.239.6200. Member Tickets $15.00 at membership@womensproject.org or 212.765.2105. For groups of nine or more, tickets are $25.00 at membership@womensproject.org

The designers are Zane Pihlstrom (sets), Andrea Lauer (costumes), Deb
Sullivan (lights), and Elizabeth Rhodes (sound).