Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) in association with Andrew Higgie, Back Row Productions and Debbie Bisno, is proud to announce that Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award® nominated film star Carey Mulligan (An Education) will star in the final production of its 2010-2011 season - the U.S. premiere of the play THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, based on the Academy Award® winning Ingmar Bergman film adapted for the stage by Jenny Worton.
Directed by five - time Tony Award® nominee David Leveaux, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY will begin previews Friday, May 13th; officially open Monday, June 6th; and play a limited engagement through Sunday, July 3rd Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop (79 East 4th Street) while Atlantic's main stage Linda Gross Theater undergoes renovation.
Additional casting, design team and scheduling and ticket information will be announced shortly.
The world premiere of Ethan Coen's Four Pickups, previously announced for this Spring has been postponed to an upcoming season.
Karin (Mulligan) is the central figure in the lives of her family, not least because her own tenuous grip on reality keeps everyone in constant motion around her. On an annual vacation to a beautiful remote island, tensions flare as her husband, father and brother struggle over the best way to help her. When a legacy of denial and repression boils over, threatening the future of the entire family, Karin decides that she must take command of her own destiny. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY is a vibrant, moving adaptation of the Academy Award® winning film by legendary Swedish director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman.
Carey Mulligan returns to the New York stage following her Broadway debut in the 2008 revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She received Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award® nominations and a BAFTA Award for her critically acclaimed breakthrough role in the film An Education.
Playwright Jenny Worton is the Artistic Associate of the Almeida Theatre in London. She adapted the play Dolls for the National Theatre of Scotland and served as dramaturg for London's Gate Theatre production of the play Breathing Irregular.
Director David Leveaux received Tony Award® nominations for the Tony Award® winning revival of The Real Thing, the Tony Award® nominated revival of Jumpers and the Broadway productions of Nine, Anna Christie and A Moon for the Misbegotten. He will stage the Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia this Spring.
The stage adaptation of THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY made its world premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London on June 16, 2010.
Atlantic Theater Company's world premiere production of Tony Award® winning playwright David Auburn's adaptation of Langdon Mitchell's 1906 comedy THE NEW YORK IDEA, directed by Mark Brokaw, is now playing Off-Broadway at The Lucille Lortel Theatre, where it will open January 26, 2011.
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CAREY MULLIGAN (Karin) returns to the New York stage following making her Broadway debut in the 2008 revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination. She received Academy Award® and Golden Globe Award® nominations and a BAFTA Award for her critically acclaimed breakthrough role in the film The Education. For the Royal Court in London: The Seagull and Forty Winks. Other theatre includes The Hypochondriac (Almeida) and Tower Block Dreams (Riverside Studios). Television includes "My Boy Jack," "Dr. Who," "Northanger Abbey," "The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard" and "Bleak House." Film includes Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, Never Let Me Go, When Did You Last See Your Father?, Pride and Prejudice, Brothers, Public Enemies and The Greatest. Upcoming film projects include Drive opposite Ryan Gosling and Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby. She is currently filming the independent feature Shame opposite Michael Fassbender, directed by Steve McQueen.
DAVID LEVEAUX (Director) Previous Broadway productions include Cyrano with Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner, Tom Stoppard's Jumpers (Tony Award® nominations Outstanding Direction and Best Revival), Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (Tony Award® nomination Outstanding Direction and Tony Award® Best Revival), Fiddler on the Roof with Alfred Molina and subsequently Harvey Fierstein (Tony Award nomination® Best Revival), Nine with Antonio Banderas (Tony Award® nomination Outstanding Direction and Tony Award® Best Revival), The Glass Menagerie with Jessica Lange, Harold Pinter's Betrayal with Juliette Binoche (Tony Award nomination® Best Revival), Electra with Zoë Wanamaker (Tony Award nomination® Best Revival), Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie with Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson (Tony Award® nomination Outstanding Direction and Tony Award® Best Revival) and A Moon for the Misbegotten with Kate Nelligan (Tony Award® nominations Outstanding Direction and Best Revival). Other theatre includes The Late Middle Classes, Nine, The Real Thing and Electra (Donmar, London); Jumpers and Strindberg's The Father (National); Sinatra Live at the London Palladium; Harold Pinter's No Man's Land with Harold Pinter as Hirst, Moonlight with Ian Holm, and Betrayal, and Neil LaBute's The Distance From Here (Almeida); 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Romeo and Juliet (RSC); A Moon for the Misbegotten (Riverside Studios - Society of West End Theatre Award); Rudolph (Vienna); A Doll's House (Tokyo); Sebastian Barry's Tales of Ballycumber and The Three Sisters (Abbey, Dublin). Opera includes: The Turn of the Screw (Scottish Opera, Tramway); The Marriage of Figaro and Strauss' Salome (English National Opera).
INGMAR BERGMAN (1918-2007). Swedish film and theatre director, playwright and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's films include Smiles of a Summer Night, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute, Autumn Sonata and the Academy Award® winning Fanny and Alexander, The Virgin Spring and Through A Glass Darkly. He directed extensively for the stage and was Executive Director of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and at the Residenz Theater in Munich. Through a Glass Darkly was Sweden's contribution to the Venice Biennale in 1962 and won the Academy Award® for Best Foreign Language Film.
JENNY WORTON (Stage Adaptation) is the Artistic Associate of the Almeida Theatre in London. She works alongside Michael Attenborough developing the artistic program, as well as producing the theatre's bi-annual Summer Festival. She was previously Literary Manager at the Tricycle Theatre, and worked in the Literary Departments at the Bush Theatre, the National Theatre and Out Of Joint. She adapted for the stage Dolls (National Theatre of Scotland and Hush Productions) and acted as dramaturg for the Gate Theatre, London on Breathing Irregular. She wrote the text for the South Bank Show nominated I Am Falling (Gate Theatre, London and Sadler's Wells). Her original work for Radio Four includes Demonstrating Grace and A Hallowed Space.
ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is the award winning Off-Broadway theater company dedicated to producing great plays simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble. Atlantic believes that the story of the play and the intent of the playwright are at the core of the creative process. Atlantic maintains an ensemble of acclaimed actors, writers and directors including Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and director David Mamet and Academy Award® nominated actor William H. Macy who founded Atlantic twenty five years ago in 1985.
Atlantic and Neil Pepe were awarded a 2009 Drama Desk Award last season for "exceptional craftsmanship, dedication to excellence and productions that engage, inspire and enlighten." In 2006, Atlantic was awarded the Lucille Lortel Prize for Outstanding Body of Work as its critically acclaimed production of Martin McDonagh's The Lieutenant Of Inishmore transferred to Broadway, where it was nominated for five 2006 Tony Awards® including Best Play.
Atlantic's acclaimed world premiere production of its first musical Spring Awakening, with music by Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Steven Sater and direction by Michael Mayer, won 8 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical.
During the 2008-2009 season, Atlantic and Druid's critically acclaimed production of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan, directed by Tony Award® winner Garry Hynes, was extended three times and received four 2009 Lucille Lortel Award nominations including Outstanding Revival, three Outer Critics Circle Award nominations including Outstanding Revival, a Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Revival, and was awarded a 2009 Lortel for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.
Since its inception, Atlantic has produced over 125 productions including the Tony Award® winning play The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the world premieres of Academy Award® winner Ethan Coen's comedies Almost an Evening and Offices, Woody Allen's A Second Hand Memory and Writer's Block, David Mamet's Romance and his adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance, the musicals Spring Awakening and 10 Million Miles, Conor McPherson's Port Authority, Peter Parnell's Trumpery, Lucy Thurber's Scarcity, Annie Baker's Body Awareness, Beau Willimon's Farragut North, Bekah Brunstetter's Oohrah!, David Pittu's What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling, Leslie Ayvazian's Make Me, Tom Donaghy's Minutes From The Blue Route, Edwin Sanchez's Trafficking in Broken Hearts, the American premieres of Joe Penhall's Blue/Orange, Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol, Jez Butterworth's The Night Heron, the New York premieres of David Mamet's Keep Your Pantheon and School, Jez Butterworth's Parlour Song and Mojo, Rolin Jones' The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow and Peter Parnell's The Cider House Rules as well as revivals of David Mamet's American Buffalo and Edmond, Harold Pinter's The Hothouse and the double bill of Celebration and The Room and Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice.
The remaining three productions in Atlantic Theater Company's 2010 - 2011 season (The New York Idea, Through a Glass Darkly and 10x25) are available in a special Spring Membership. All three productions are available for $150.
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