Broadway's THE GIN GAME Adds New Holiday Performances

The celebrated new production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, directed by Leonard Foglia and starring legendary actors James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, will add four performances in December and January, BroadwayWorld has learned.

The holiday performance schedule will now be as follows:

Monday, December 14: DARK
Tuesday, December 15 at 7pm
Wednesday, December 16 at 2pm & 7pm (added evening performance)
Thursday, December 17 at 7pm
Friday, December 18 at 8pm
Saturday, December 19 at 2pm & 8pm
Sunday, December 20 at 3pm
Monday, December 21 at 7pm
Tuesday, December 22 at 7pm
Wednesday, December 23 at 2pm (added matinee performance) & 7pm
Thursday, December 24: DARK
Friday, December 25 at 8pm
Saturday, December 26 at 2pm & 8pm
Sunday, December 27 at 3pm
Monday, December 28 at 2pm (added matinee performance) & 8pm
Tuesday, December 29 at 8pm
Wednesday, December 30 at 2pm & 8pm
Thursday, December 31: DARK
Friday, January 1: DARK
Saturday, January 2 at 2pm & 8pm
Sunday, January 3 at 3pm
Monday, January 4: DARK
Tuesday, January 5 at 7pm
Wednesday, January 6 at 2pm & 7pm (added evening performance)
Thursday, January 7 at 7pm
Friday, January 8 at 8pm
Saturday, January 9 at 2pm & 8pm
Sunday, January 10 at 3pm

The Gin Game opened to acclaim on Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at the Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). Previews began September 23 for the limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016. Tickets are available by calling Telecharge at 212-239-6200 or 800-447-7400 or online at Telecharge.com.

Weller Martin (James Earl Jones) and Fonsia Dorsey (Cicely Tyson) meet on the porch of their nursing home and strike up a friendship, with Weller teaching Fonsia how to play gin rummy. As they play, they share stories about the lives they led in the outside world. But when Fonsia wins every hand, Weller becomes increasingly frustrated, until their gin games and conversations become a battleground, with each player exposing the other's failures, disappointments and insecurities.

The production features set and costume design by Riccardo Hernandez, lighting design by Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer and sound design by David Van Tieghem.

The Gin Game is produced by OSTAR Productions, Bob Boyett, Jon Bierman, Jamie deRoy, Eric Falkenstein, Wendy Federman, Roy Furman, Philip Geier, Ruth Hendel, Marianne Mills, Ira Pittelman, Sanford Robertson, The Shubert Organization, Loraine Boyle, Barbara Freitag, Carl Moellenberg, and Ron Simons.

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus