THE DOOR Plays Brits Off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theaters

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes New Ways in association with Unfit Productions UK Ltd to 59E59 Theaters with THE DOOR, written by Tony Earnshaw and directed by Anna Adams. THE DOOR begins performances on Tuesday, November 22 for a limited engagement through Sunday, December 11. Press opening is Tuesday, November 29 at 7:30 PM. Please note there is no performance on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 24. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:30 PM; Friday at 8:30 PM; Saturday at 2:30 PM and 8:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 PM and 7:30 PM. Single tickets are $25 ($17.50 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or go to www.59e59.org. For more information, visit www.britsoffbroadway.com.

Two men wait in a room with only each other and a banging door for company. They exchange pleasantries, talk, bicker, argue and joke about politics, religion, trivia and consequences. But these men are not strangers; they have history. Somebody died. But who was responsible?

By turns funny, poignant and powerfully tense, THE DOOR is a topical 50-minute dramatic rollercoaster that leaves you "hanging off The Edge of your seat" (Three Weeks Magazine).

The cast includes Tom Cobley and Chris Westgate.

Tony Earnshaw's (writer) plays include The Door, Visiting Time, Blessed Assurance and Grimm Reality. A two-time Sir Michael Caine Award-winner for Best New Writing at the Leatherhead Drama Festival, Tony has also enjoyed success with the shorter form - his ten-minute play The Rose That I Keep in My Heart was selected for Scribblerfest. He has two poetry collections to his credit with a book for children on the way.

Anna Adams (director) trained at the Oxford School of Drama and has been working as an actress and director for the last ten years. Her acting career has taken her as far as Scotland right down to Land's End in Cornwall and everywhere in between; working with various theatre companies, performing classics as well as exciting new writing projects. Anna is passionate about working for and with young people and much of her recent work has been dedicated to that; writing, devising and directing youth Theatre Projects with the Wokingham-based theatre company Stage-Fright. Discerning in her choice of projects, some of the latest include Ghetto by Joshua Sobol, a wonderful but harrowing play set in the Vilna Ghetto in the 2nd World War; The Virgin Monologues, working with women and girls in her local community, writing and performing monologues based on the Virgin Mary; and The Conference of the Birds, a piece of physical theatre which explores journeying through life.