Metropolitan Playhosue to Present ANNA CHRISTIE Starting 11/14

The Metropolitan Playhouse will present ANNA CHRISTIE, O'Neill's tenderest tale of fallen angels looking for land.  Anna has left a life in the streets to find her estranged father working a coal barge, and to fall in love with a bold and brazen man who cannot accept her past. Three hard headed lovers of the sea are tossed in a storm of their own desires in an ironic and hopeful story of human frailty.

It will run from November 14 -December 14 and will star Joe Atack, Roger Clark, Nick Delany, Ian Campbell Dunn, Zachary Spicer, Rob Sulaver, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Jenne Vath, and Karen Christie-Ward. The production is directed by Robert Z. Kalfin.

Metropolitan Playhouse explores America’s theatrical heritage to illuminate contemporary American culture. The Playhouse produces early American plays, new plays drawn from American culture and history, and plays from around the world that resonate with the American canon.

"Under the leadership of Artistic Director Alex Roe since 2001, the sixteen-year-old company has grown into an institution recognized for both artistic excellence and cultural significance.  Guiding the company’s growth has been a clear vision of the rich portrait that theater paints of the culture that creates it. Reflecting society’s values, aspirations, and character, theater offers, as does no other art, a doubly rich perspective.  On the one hand, it is a window into the character of the time of its creation. On the other, it is always contemporary, because every performance of a play is a new creation for its own time.  Connecting us with our past in the light of our present, America’s theater gives invaluable insight into our cultural identity."

For a detailed schedule and ticket information please visit www.metropolitanplayhouse.org.

 

 

 

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