Brett Singer & Associates, LLC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
The Peccadillo Theater Company To Present
May 21, 2007
The OBIE and Lortel Award-winning Peccadillo
Theater Company will present the first New York City revival of Sylvia Regan's
1940 play MORNING STAR. Performances will be at Bank Street Theatre (155
Bank Street), and will begin on Thursday, June 28th, continuing
through Saturday, July 28th.
Beginning in 1910, Sylvia Regan's MORNING STAR tells the story of the hopes and struggles of an
immigrant Jewish family on the Lower East Side of New York. Becky Felderman, a
widow, has brought her four children to America so they might have a better
life than they would in Russia. Their fortunes are shaped by the momentous
events happening around them: the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, World War I and the
Great Depression. First produced on Broadway in 1940, MORNING STAR shares with us a poignant quest for family, love
and the promise of the American dream.
The play went on to be produced all over the world, as Ellen Schiff
points out in her collection Awake and Singing: "Although Morning
Star showcases major chapters in American Jewish experience, the play's
international successes demonstrate its wide appeal." Peccadillo is pleased to bring MORNING
STAR back to the city where it is set.
The cast for MORNING STAR includes Peter J.
Coriaty, Matthew DeCapua, Susan Greenhill, Lena Kaminsky, David Lavine, Geany
Masai, Allan Mirchin, Steve Sterner, Caroline Tamas, Michael Tommer, Darcy
Yellin, and Josh Philip Weinstein.
Design duties will be handled by Joe Spirito (Sets), Jeffrey E. Salzberg
(Lighting), and Gail Cooper-Hecht (Costumes).
Director Dan Wackerman is the artistic
director of The Peccadillo Theater Company. Most recently, he directed the
critically acclaimed off-Broadway revival of John Murray and Alan Boretz’s Room
Service. He also directed a
revival of Dorothy Parker & Arnaud d’Usseau’s The Ladies of the Corridor
at the 13th Street Theatre and Elmer Rice’s Counsellor-at-Law at
Theatre at Saint Clement’s (OBIE Award for Outstanding Direction, Lucille
Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival, Outer Critics Circle nomination for
Outstanding Direction & Revival). Other directing credits for Peccadillo
include S.N. Behrman’s Jane, John Colton’s The Shanghai Gesture,
and Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings, Desire Under the
Elms, and Strange Interlude, and the original musical The Talk Of
The Town.
The Peccadillo Theater Company is in its
second decade of producing forgotten American classics - "forgotten"
in the sense that most of the work they do has seldom, if ever, been revived in
New York City, and "classic" in the sense of enduring theatrical
value. Their most recent production was
Room Service, which transferred from Bank Street Theater and played for
more than six months off-Broadway. Other successes include Counsellor-At-Law
(two Lortel Awards, OBIE Award) and The Talk Of The Town, which ran for
over a year in the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel.
MORNING STAR will begin performances on Thursday, June
28th and will continue through Saturday, July 28th. Opening is scheduled for Monday, July 2nd. The schedule will be Thursdays through
Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 3:00pm, with a special Monday evening
performance on July 2nd at 7pm. Tickets are $20 and may be purchased
by calling Smarttix at (212) 868-4444, or online at www.smarttix.com.
MORNING
STAR
A
Play by Sylvia Regan
Directed
by Dan Wackerman
Bank
Street Theatre, 155 Bank Street (between Washington and West Streets)
SCHEDULE:
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm
Performances
begin Thursday, June 28th
Opening:
Monday, July 2nd at 7:00pm (PLEASE NOTE: Monday Performance and
Early Curtain Time)
Through
Saturday, July 28th
Additional
performance on Monday, July 2nd at 7:00pm
TICKETS: $20.00; Call (212) 868-4444 or visit
www.smarttix.com
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