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The Peccadillo Theater Company To Present
The Peccadillo Theater Company will present a production of
Elmer Rice’s 1931 legal drama Counsellor-At-Law. Performances will be at Bank Street Theatre
(155 Bank Street), and will begin on Thursday, May 6th, continuing
through Sunday, May 30th.
Elmer Rice's Counsellor-At-Law is a tightly
plotted melodrama about a cynical attorney's struggle to avoid disbarment.
Having bootstrapped his way out of the Jewish ghetto, George Simon finds
himself at the mercy of an anti-Semitic rival, who knows that, years earlier,
George perjured himself to save a friend from the old neighborhood. Ironically,
George's "crime" was also an act of compassion and serves to
highlight exactly how far this apparently successful man has strayed from the
liberal values of his youth.
The cast for Counsellor-At-Law
will be led by John Rubinstein, who made his Broadway debut in Pippin and
won a Tony Award for Children of a Lesser God; he was most recently seen
on Broadway in Ragtime.
Television audiences remember him from his role on “Family”, among many
other appearances. Mr. Rubinstein is
also an accomplished composer (like his father, Arthur Rubinstein), having
written the scores to numerous films, as well as the themes to the television
shows “Family” and “China Beach”. He
won the Drama-Logue and L. A. Drama Critics Circle Awards for his portrayal of
George Simon in Counsellor, and he is pleased to work with The
Peccadillo Theater Company to bring this play to New York.
The cast will also include Madeleine Martin (last season’s revival of A Day In The
Death of Joe Egg on Broadway), as well as her brother Joseph (Madeleine is 11 and
Joseph is 14). Rounding out the company
will be D. Michael Berkowitz, Dennis Burke, Beth Glover, Nell Gwynn, James M.
Larmer, David Lavine, Mark Light-Orr, Lanie MacEwan, Racheline Maltese, Sal
Mistretta, Robert O’Gorman, Ginger Rich, Tara Sands, Letty Serra, Brian Taylor,
and Ashley West. Peccadillo Artistic
Director Dan Wackerman will direct.
The Peccadillo Theater
Company was founded in 1994 with the goal of producing forgotten American
classics – “forgotten” in the sense that most of the work the company does is
rarely revived in New York City, and “classic” in the sense of enduring
theatrical value. Their first
production was Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, more recently, the
company presented a highly acclaimed revival of John Colton’s The Shanghai
Gesture and a new production of Dorothy Parker’s The Ladies of the
Corridor.
Counsellor-At-Law
will begin performances on Thursday, May 6th
and will continue through Sunday, May 30th. Opening is scheduled for Sunday, May 9th. The schedule will be Thursdays through
Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 3:00pm.
Tickets are $15 and may be purchased by calling Smarttix at (212)
868-4444, or online at www.smarttix.com.
Photos will be available for download at
www.brettsinger.com/clients/peccadillo.html.
Counsellor-At-Law
Written By Elmer Rice, Directed by Dan Wackerman
Presented by The Peccadillo Theater Company
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, May 6th
Opening: Sunday, May 9th at 3pm
Through Sunday, May 30th
TICKETS: $15.00; Call
(212) 868-4444 or visit www.smarttix.com