'Beebo Brinker Chronicles' Launches Off-Bway at 37 Arts on Feb.19

This fall's critically acclaimed production of Beebo Brinker Chronicles will play a 10 week limited engagement Off-Broadway run beginning February 19 at 37 Arts.

A stage adaptation of Ann Bannon's groundbreaking, award-winning pulp novels of the 1950s and 1960s, Beebo Brinker Chronicles is written by Kate Moira Ryan (25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, 2007 GLAAD Media Award Winner for Best Play) and Linda S. Chapman (Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving) and directed by Leigh Silverman (Well). Ann Bannon's steamy paperback novels are currently in their third printing by Cleis Press.  Opening night is slated for March 5, 2008.

"Fueled by booze and furtive sex, Beebo Brinker Chronicles follows the lives and loves of four friends in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, still pine for each other. Before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in a web spun by Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the underground bar scene, and Jack, a flamboyant fop with caustic wit," explain press notes.

Produced by Harriet Newman Leve (Stomp, The 39 Steps), Elyse Singer (Mae West's Sex, Trouble in Paradise) and Jamie DeRoy (Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, Coram Boy), the new production will again feature David Greenspan (2007 Obie for Some Men and Faust), Carolyn Baeumler (Trouble In Paradise), Bill Dawes (Gross Indecency / Burning Blue), Autumn Dornfeld (The Graduate), and Marin Ireland (Obie Award for Cyclone). Complete casting will be announced shortly.

The design team includes Theresa Squire (costumes), Rachel Hauck (set), Nicole Pearce (lights), Jill BC DuBoff (sound) and Roy Gabay (General Manager). The original production was produced by Hourglass Group at The Fourth Street Theatre.

Beebo Brinker Chronicles runs February 19 - April 27 with performances   Tues. at 7pm; Wed, Thus. & Fri. at 8pm; Sat. at 5pm & 9pm;  and Sun. at 3pm & 7pm. 37 Arts is located at 450 West 37th Street (between 9th & 10th Aves. -- accessible from A,C,E trains to 34th St). Tickets are $46.25 - $56.25. To buy tickets call 212-307-4100 or visit www.TicketMaster.com.

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