Hang A Tale Announces SPRING READING SERIES

New York City-based theater company, Hang A Tale, announces its Spring Reading Series, featuring Michael Shannonand Marsha Stephanie Blake.

Hang A Tale (www.hangatale.org) was nominated for an Off-Broadway Alliance Award for its production of Antoine De Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince at the Pearl Theater. Past productions include William Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale; Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter; and Insignificance, in collaboration with London's Defibrillator Theatre Company.

Two-time Academy Award nominee, Tony nominee, and Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominee Michael Shannon (Long Day's Journey Into Night, Loving,Boardwalk Empire) will star in Sam Shepard's Curse of the Starving Class. Joining him will be Tasha Lawrence (Pipeline, If I Forget, The Whale). Further casting to be announced. The play first ran in NYC at The Public Theater's New York Shakespeare Festival in 1978 and is considered the first in a series on family sagas, which includes Buried Child and True West. Date and Time, TBD. Visit www.hangatale.org for the latest information.

Marsha Stephanie Blake (Othello, Orange Is The New Black, Happyish) will play the title role in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. Joining her in the cast are Peter Francis James (Present Laughter, The Merchant of Venice, Stuff Happens, Bull), Tyrone Mitchell Henderson (Rancho Viejo, Quick Silver Theater Company), Nikiya Mathis (Skeleton Crew, Milk Like Sugar, The Good Wife), and Benton Greene (Sweat, Father Comes Home From The War). The reading will be directed by Lisa Rothe (Hold These Truths, Ropes, Confederates) and will be held on Monday, May 22, 2017, at 4:00 PM at the Alliance of Resident Theatre's LuEsther T. Mertz's South Oxford Space, located at 138 South Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217.