ATC Extends THE COLLECTION & A KIND OF ALASKA, Through 12/19

Atlantic Theater Company's critically acclaimed production of THE COLLECTION & A KIND OF ALASKA: TWO PLAYS BY HAROLD PINTER has been extended in through Sunday, December 19 2010 Off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street). 

WHO:             
PLAYWRIGHT:
Atlantic returns to the work of Tony Award® and Nobel Prize winning playwright Harold Pinter, (the first major production of his work to be done in NYC since his death in 2008) following its critically hailed 2005 production of his first and last plays The Room and Celebration. 
 
DIRECTOR:
Director Karen Kohlhaas is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company who returns to staging the work of Harold Pinter following her acclaimed production of The Hothouse at Atlantic.  Karen most recently directed the world premiere of Annie Baker's Body Awareness at Atlantic.

STARRING:
Larry Bryggman (Tony Award® nominated for Proof; David Mamet's Romance at Atlantic)Lisa Emery (Atlantic's Gabriel; The Women on Broadway)Rebecca Henderson (The Retributionists at Playwrights Horizons; The Misanthrope at Classic Stage Company)Matt McGrath (Broadway's Cabaret & A Streetcar Named Desire)Darren Pettie (Atlantic's Hobson's Choice; This at Playwrights Horizons)

WHAT:           
In THE COLLECTION (1961), a 4:00am phone call and a surprise visitor set off a series of conversations about potential infidelities among two couples. And a middle-aged woman who has been asleep in a hospital room awakens after thirty years and must reorient herself to a greatly changed world in A KIND OF ALASKA (1982), which was inspired by the work of Oliver Sacks in his seminal book, Awakenings.
 
WHERE:  PLEASE NOTE: Atlantic is presenting the production at Classic Stage Company (136 East 13th Street), while its main stage 20th Street theater is under renovation.
 
WHEN:           
NOW EXTENDED THROUGH SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2010
SCHEDULE: 
Tuesday-Saturday at 8p, Wednesday &Saturday performances at 2p & Sunday performances at 3p.
 
TICKETS:      
All tickets are $65 and available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (ticketcentral.com), in person at the Ticket Central box office or in person at the ATLANTIC STAGE 2 box office located at 330 West 16th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues).
 
Membership, wheelchair seating, group sales: 212-691-5919, ext. 1092.
 
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