Billy Magnussen joins his previously announced chums - Kristine Nielsen, David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver - for a reading of Noel Coward's A SONG AT TWILIGHT. The VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE friends are reuniting for a benefit performance to kick off the 2014/2015 season of The Flea Theater. The performance will take place on Monday, September 15. A cocktail reception begins at 6 pm followed by the reading at 7pm and then a talkback with the actors. Flea Artistic Director, Jim Simpson directs the event at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (199 Chambers St).
In A SONG AT TWILIGHT, celebrated author Hugo Latymer has reached the autumn of his days with everything a man could wish for: wealth, success, fantastic friends, and a life filled with laughter, luxury and travel. A profound fear of intimacy and public scandal, however, kept him from embracing the one true love in his life, and now he wonders if he would trade the success for a chance to do it all again.
Tickets to the benefit are $275 and available to Flea Members only. Flea Memberships start at $25 and can be purchased by calling 212-226-0051, ext 107 or online at
www.theflea.org.
The
Flea Theater, under Artistic Director
Jim Simpson and Producing Director
Carol Ostrow, is one of New York's leading off-off-Broadway companies. Winner of a Special Drama Desk Award for outstanding achievement, Obie Awards and an Otto for political theater, The Flea has presented over 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances since its inception in 1996. Past productions include premieres by
Steven Banks,
Thomas Bradshaw,
Bathsheba Doran,
Will Eno,
Karen Finley,
Amy Freed, Sean Graney,
A.R. Gurney,
Hamish Linklater, Enrique Gutiérrez Ortiz Monasterio,
Itamar Moses,
Anne Nelson,
Qui Nguyen,
Adam Rapp,
Jonathan Reynolds,
Roger Rosenblatt,
Elizabeth Swados, and
Mac Wellman. Recent successes include Drama Desk nominated She Kills Monsters, These Seven Sicknesses, Restoration Comedy and eight world premieres by
A.R. Gurney including the WSJ Best New Play of 2013, Family Furniture.
Pictured: Billy Magnussen in Second Stage's SEX WITH STRANGERS. Photo Credit: Joan Marcus.
