Fiasco's Reimagined INTO THE WOODS Receives Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Touring Production

Last night at the 13th Annual Craig Noel Awards in San Diego, CA, Fiasco Theater's critically acclaimed production of Into the Woods won the Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Touring Production. The ceremony was held at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in La Jolla, CA.

Into the Woods was presented in July/August 2014 at The Old Globe in San Diego, following the world premiere at the McCarter Theatre Center in May 2013. Into the Woods is on stage now at Roundabout Theatre Company, presented in association with McCarter Theatre Center.

Into the Woods officially opened on January 22, 2015 at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This limited engagement has extended thru April 12, 2015.

Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Into the Woods features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine, and is directed by Noah Brody and Ben Steinfeld. The cast includes: Jessie Austrian as "Baker's Wife," Noah Brody as "Lucinda, Wolf & Cinderella's Prince," Matt Castle as "Pianist," Paul L. Coffey as "Mysterious Man," Andy Grotelueschen as "Milky White, Florinda & Rapunzel's Prince," Liz Hayes as "Cinderella's Stepmother & Jack's Mother," Claire Karpen as "Cinderella & Granny," Jennifer Mudge as Witch," Patrick Mulryan as "Jack & Steward," Ben Steinfeld as "Baker" and Emily Young as "Little Red Ridinghood & Rapunzel."

With only 10 actors, one piano and boundless imagination, this witty and wildly theatrical re-invention is Into the Woods like you've never seen it before! This stripped-down, unplugged, thrillingly clever new version includes all the dazzling classic songs like "Children Will Listen" and "Giants in the Sky." Mind the wolf, heed the witch and honor the giant at this extraordinary musical about the power of wishes and what happens when they really do come true.

Roundabout has a long relationship with Stephen Sondheim having produced five Tony Award nominated Sondheim revivals including Company (1995), Follies (2001), Tony Award winning Assassins (2004), Pacific Overtures (2004) and Sunday in the Park with George (2008). In 2005, Roundabout honored Sondheim with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre for the indelible impact his life's work has made on the theatre. In 2009 Roundabout presented a one-night only gala concert reading of A Little Night Music. In 2010, Roundabout presented a special Broadway musical tribute to Sondheim entitled Sondheim on Sondheim conceived and directed by Into the Woods' librettist James Lapine and in the same year, renamed Broadway's Henry Millers' Theatre in honor of Mr. Sondheim.

The creative team includes: Derek McLane (Sets), Whitney Locher (Costumes), Christopher Akerlind (Lighting), Darron L West (Sound), Michael Perlman (Associate Director), Lisa Shriver (Choreographer) Matt Castle (Music Director) and Frank Galgano (Orchestrations).

Tickets for Into the Woods are available by calling 212.719.1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org, and in person at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre Box office (111 West 46th Street). Single tickets for Into the Woods are $109.

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus