'Beebo Brinker' Extends Run to Oct.28, to Transfer Off-Bway

Hourglass Group in association with Piece by Piece Productions has announced the transfer of their acclaimed production of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles to an Off-Broadway contract. Performances will now run through October 28 at The Fourth Street Theatre.

The Hourglass Group presents The Beebo Brinker Chronicles adapted from the groundbreaking 1950s lesbian pulp novels by Ann Bannon, a new play by Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman, directed by Leigh Silverman.

"Set in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village, The Beebo Brinker Chronicles celebrates the era when 'the love that dares not speak its name' began breaking the old rules. Fueled by booze and furtive sex, the play follows the lives and loves of Laura, Beth and Beebo as they navigate uncharted territories of desire. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, went separate ways after graduation: Beth married and had children, Laura moved to New York. Both pine for each other, but before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in the web of Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the bars with a soft spot for young lesbians fresh off the bus," declare press notes.

2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Beebo Brinker's introduction into the world of gay and lesbian literature. Bannon's steamy paperback novels of coming-out have been embraced by three generations of lesbians and the books are currently in their third printing by Cleis Press.

Show times are Thursdays – Saturdays at 7PM; Sundays at 5PM and Mondays at 7PM.  Plus Wednesday October 10 at 3PM and October 17 at 7PM

Tickets are $20, seating is very limited.  Call 212-352-3101 or visit www.TheaterMania.com.

The cast includes Carolyn Baeumler, Bill Dawes, Autumn Dornfeld, David Greenspan, Marin Ireland, Anna Foss Wilson.  The creative team includes Rachel Hauck (costumes), Theresa Squire (lighting), Nicole Pearce (sound), Jill BC DuBoff (props).

There will be a benefit performance on Friday October 19 at 7PM.  $50 tickets include the After-Party at the Leopard Lounge at Sin Sin, Sponsored by Christiana Vodka

The Fourth Street Theatre is located at 83 East Fourth Street (between Bowery & 2nd Avenue).

Hourglass Group is an OBIE Award-winning company committed to producing and developing provocative new work and neglected vintage comedies. Founded in 1998, we have a special interest in fostering challenging works that explore the tensions between society and female identity throughout time.