LCT's The Clean House Extends through January 28

Lincoln Center Theater will extend the run of its current production of The Clean House, a new play by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Bill Rauch, through Sunday, January 28 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street). 

The production which features Vanessa Aspillaga, Blair Brown, Jill Clayburgh, John Dossett and Concetta Tomei, opened on Monday, October 30 and was originally scheduled to run through Sunday, December 17.

In The Clean House, "Lane, a high-powered doctor (Brown), seems to have it all – except for a clean house.  Her housekeeper, a young Brazilian woman (Aspillaga) who hates to clean is only interested in coming up with the world's funniest joke.   When a crisis strikes without warning, Lane's life spins out of control.  />Dossett plays Lane's husband; Clayburgh her sister, and Tomei, a free spirit named Ana. "

Sets are by Christopher Acebo, costumes by Shigeru Yaji, lighting by James F. Ingalls, original music and sound by André Pluess and choreography by Sabrina Peck.  

Sarah Ruhl was recently awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.  She also  won the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Clean House, which premiered at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theatre before being produced at theaters across the country.  Her other plays include Melancholy Play, Eurydice, Late: A Cowboy Song and Passion Play.  This Lincoln Center Theater's production marks the playwright's New York debut.

Bill Rauch directed the Yale Rep production of The Clean House.  Co-founder and Artistic Director of Los Angeles' Cornerstone Theater Company, he has also directed at many of the country's regional theatres including the Mark Taper Forum, the Guthrie Theater, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the South Coast Repertory, the Arena Stage and the Long Wharf  Theatre.

This fall, Lincoln Center Theater is also presenting the American premiere of Tom Stoppard's three-part play, The Coast of Utopia? directed by Jack O'Brien, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, which began performances on October 17. 

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