Photo Coverage: Inside Opening Night of A SUMMER DAY

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Artistic Director David Van Asselt and Managing Director Brian Long present the American premiere of Jon Fosse's A Summer Day, translated and directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde, which opened last night, October 25 at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Check out photo coverage from the opening night festivities below!

A visit to an old friend sparks the memory of a visit years earlier and the mysterious disappearance of a loved one. Set in two time periods in the same idyllic house, A Summer Day evokes the nostalgia of the end of an affair, capturing love both in the moment and as a distant memory. Acclaimed Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, widely considered to be one of the world's greatest living playwrights, receives an American premiere with this deep meditation on the nature of loss.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theateris a multi-award-winning company which has produced over sixty world premieres in the past seventeen seasons and was the recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award for developing new and innovative work. Previous plays include Two Boys in a Bed, Message to Michael, Carpool, Volunteer Man, A Trip to the Beach, Ascendancy, Stuck, Vick's Boy, The Messenger, Saved or Destroyed, Neil's Garden, My Special Friend, Faster, Bliss, St. Crispin's Day, Where We're Born, Five Flights, Boise, Finer Noble Gases, God Hates The Irish: The Ballad of Armless Johnny, Miss Julie, Acts of Mercy: passion-play, Cagelove, It Goes Without Saying, Dark Matters, Stay, American Sligo, Rag and Bone, War, Geometry of Fire, That Pretty Pretty or The Rape Play, The Amish Project, Killers and Other Family, Post No Bills, Blind, Little Doc, underneathmybed, There Are No More Big Secrets, The Hallway Trilogy, Carson McCullers Talks About Love, The Wood, Asuncion, Horsedreams, Yosemite, Massacre (Sing to Your Children), 3C, the Off-Broadway GLAAD Award-nominated hit The Last Sunday in June, Craig Wright's The Pavilion (Drama Desk nominee - Outstanding Play of 2005) and Lady (Drama Desk nominee – Outstanding Play of 2008), as well as The Aliens by Annie Baker (2010 Obie Award winner for Best New American Play).

Individual tickets to A Summer Day and memberships for Rattlestick's 2012-2013 season are now available and can be purchased at www.rattlestick.org or by phoning OvationTix at 866-811-4111. This season Rattlestick has specially priced memberships available for students, patrons under 30 years old, and theater artists.Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is located at 224 Waverly Place (off Seventh Avenue South – between West 11th & Perry Streets); Cherry Lane Theatre is located at 38 Commerce Street, two blocks below Bleecker Street.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Theatre Marquee 'A Summer Day'

Curtain Call

Curtain Call: McCaleb Burnett, Samantha Soule, Karen Allen, Carlo Alban and Maren Bush

Curtain Call: Pamela Shaw, McCaleb Burnett, Samantha Soule, Karen Allen, Carlo Alban and Maren Bush

Curtain Call: Karen Allen

Curtain Call: Karen Allen & Carlo Alban

attending the Opening Night Performance of The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Production of 'A Summer Day' at the Cherry Lane Theatre on 10/25/2012 in New York.

James Kautz

Sarah Cameron Sunde

Hadia Yajik

Hadia Yajik & Sarah Cameron Sunde

Carlo Alban

McCaleb Burnett

Samantha Soule

McCaleb Burnett & Samantha Soule

Maren Bush

Pamela Shaw

Maren Bush & Pamela Shaw

McCaleb Burnett, Samantha Soule, Maren Bush & Pamela Shaw

Karen Allen

attending the Opening Night Performance of The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Production of 'A Summer Day' at the Cherry Lane Theatre on 10/25/2012 in New York.

Karen Allen & Samantha Soule

Karen Allen

Karen Allen with her son, Nick Browne

McCaleb Burnett, Karen Allen, Samantha Soule, Maren Bush, Pamela Shaw and Carlo Alban

Sarah Cameron Sunde, McCaleb Burnett, Karen Allen, Samantha Soule, Maren Bush, Pamela Shaw and Carlo Alban

Brian Long, Sarah Cameron Sunde, McCaleb Burnett, Karen Allen, Samantha Soule, Maren Bush, Pamela Shaw, Carlo Alban and David Van Asselt

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As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of 'GREASE'. His Journey to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. Walter moved to Manhattan and for a leading role as a Photographer & Photo Researcher. Currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and family members Dali (Jack Russell) & Gala (Schnoodle). Recently he made his Broadway debut sharing the stage with Hugh Jackman in 'Hugh Jackman on Broadway' as well as receiving the Actors' Equity Association Gypsy Spirit Award. Walter McBride Photography is syndicated worldwide by Corbis/AP.

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