John Lithgow: Stories by Heart Returns to Lincoln Center for 14 Performances Starting April 12

Lincoln Center Theater (under the direction of Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) will present a return engagement of award winning actor John Lithgow in his critically acclaimed one man show John Lithgow: STORIES BY HEART on Sunday and Monday nights at 7pm beginning Sunday, April 12 in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 W. 65 Street). John Lithgow: STORIES BY HEART, which will once again be directed by Jack O'Brien, will be presented during the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater run of the new Susan Stroman-John Weidman-Scott Frankel-Michael Korie musical Happiness for 14 performances only through Monday, May 25.

John Lithgow: STORIES BY HEART, which was originally presented by Lincoln Center Theater last spring, is a touching and funny meditation on the art and essence of storytelling. Invoking memories of his grandmother and father before him, Lithgow traces his own history as an actor and storyteller, a history spanning three generations.

For this return engagement, Mr. Lithgow will perform two different evenings in repertory. The first will be the return of his lauded performance of the P. G. Wodehouse story Uncle Fred Flits By, in which the actor performs a bravura, forty-minute comic monologue, spouting Wodehouse's dazzling language - portraying nine distinct, outrageous characters with zany abandon.

The second will be a performance of the Ring Lardner story Haircut, the writer's 1925 tale in which a barber, while giving a haircut to a stranger in town, catches the newcomer up on recent events in the community, and in doing so tells a comical but ultimately dark and suspenseful tale.

Multiple Tony and Emmy Award winner John Lithgow returns to Lincoln Center Theater where he starred on the Vivian Beaumont stage in The Front Page. His most recent NY stage credits include this season's All My Sons, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mrs. Farnsworth, The Retreat From Moscow and Sweet Smell Of Success. He won three Emmy Awards for his performance as Dick Solomon on the hit NBC comedy series 3rd Rock From The Sun. His many film credits include two back-to-back Oscar nominations for the films The World According To Garp and Terms of Endearment. He is also the author of eight New York Times best selling children's pictures books.

Jack O'Brien's most recent Lincoln Center Theater credits are the Tony Award winning productions of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia and Shakespeare's Henry IV, for which he won Tony Awards for his direction of both plays. His other LCT credits include Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love and Hapgood, Tina Howe's Pride's Crossing. Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes and Richard Nelson's Two Shakespearean Actors.

Following is the performance schedule for John Lithgow: STORIES BY HEART:

Sunday, April 12 at 7pm - Haircut Sunday, May 3 at 7pm -- Haircut
Monday, April 13 at 7pm - Haircut Monday, May 4 at 7pm - Uncle Fred

Sunday, April 19 at 7pm - Haircut Sunday, May 10 at 7pm -- Haircut
Monday, April 20 at 7pm - Haircut Monday, May 11 at 7pm - Uncle Fred

Sunday, April 26 at 7pm - Haircut Sunday, May 17 at 7pm -- Haircut
Monday, April 27 at 7pm - Uncle Fred Monday, May 18 at 7pm - Uncle Fred

Sunday, May 24 at 7pm - Haircut
Special Performance of both works: Monday, May 25 at 7pm - Uncle Fred and Haircut

This spring, in addition to John Lithgow: STORIES BY HEART and Happiness, LCT is also presenting the ongoing run of its Tony Award winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, directed by Bartlett Sher at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and a new production of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, directed by Mr. Sher, beginning performances Thursday, March 19 at the Belasco Theatre (111 W. 44 Street). In June, LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's new programming initiative devoted to the work of emerging playwrights, directors and designers, will present its second production, Stunning, a new play by David Adjmi, directed by Anne Kauffman, June 1 - 27 at The Duke on 42nd Street (229 West 42nd Street)..

Tickets to John Lithgow: STORIES BY HEART, priced at $35 (and $55 for the Monday, May 25 performance of both installments), will be available beginning Sunday, April 5 at the Lincoln Center Theater box office (150 W. 65 Street), at telecharge.com or by visiting www.lct.org.

 

 

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