Penguin Rep Theatre Presents Jim Brochu’s ZERO HOUR, 9/25

Penguin Rep Theatre presents Jim Brochu as Zero Mostel in ZERO HOUR, the acclaimed Off Broadway play, for one performance only, Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. at SUNY Rockland Community College's Cultural Arts Theatre in Suffern, New York.

The performance, which is underwritten by Barry and Helene Lewis, is completely sold out.

ZERO HOUR, which is also written by Mr. Brochu, recently celebrated its 200th performance Off Broadway, and is currently playing at the Actors Temple Theatre. For his performance, Mr. Brochu received 2010 Drama Desk and Helen Hayes Awards.

Three-time Academy Award nominee Piper Laurie directs the play, which is set at Mostel's West 28th Street painting studio where a naive reporter attempts to interview the famously volatile actor, prompting an explosion of memory, humor, outrage, and juicy backstage lore. It is July 1977 and the actor is giving his final interview before leaving for the pre-Broadway tryout of THE MERCHANT in Philadelphia.

ZERO HOUR traces Zero Mostel's early days growing up on the Lower East Side as the son of Orthodox Jewish immigrant parents, through his rise as a stand-up comedian, from the Borscht Belt to Manhattan's most exclusive supper clubs, and from the devastation of the blacklist to his greatest Broadway triumphs, most notably in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM and THE PRODUCERS.

Tickets for ZERO HOUR are $30.00 ($25.00 for Penguin subscribers).

For more information, visit Penguin Rep's website at www.penguinrep.org or call 845-786-2873.

Penguin Rep Theatre, Rockland County's first year-round, non-profit professional theatre, was founded in 1977 in a century-old hay barn converted to a theatre, by Joe Brancato, Artistic Director, and Fran Newman-McCarthy, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees. Described by The New York Times as "the gutsiest little theatre" and by The Journal News as a theatre that "continues to astonish," Penguin Rep is presenting its 33rd season in Stony Point.

Penguin Rep Theatre gratefully acknowledges general operating support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, as well as support from the County of Rockland, the Arts Fund For Rockland (a program of the Arts Council of Rockland), TD Bank Charitable Foundation, and the Shubert Foundation.

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinski