Photo Flash: Sneak Peek - In Rehearsal with Atlantic Theater's WOMEN OR NOTHING!

Atlantic Theater Company welcomes Robert Beitzel, Halley Feiffer, Susan Pourfar and Tony Award nominee Deborah Rush to star in the world premiere production of Academy Award winner Ethan Coen's first full length play WOMEN OR NOTHING, staged by acclaimed director David Cromer. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast in rehearsal below!

WOMEN OR NOTHING will begin previews Wednesday, August 28; officially open Monday, September 16; and play a limited engagement through Sunday, October 6 Off Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street).

WOMEN OR NOTHING is a play about two women so desperate to have a child that one of them will even sleep with a man. Who the man is, what he thinks is going on, what the women think about what he thinks, and what the mother of one of the women reveals about her own colorful past-it all defies belief. Why then does it all make sense?

Academy Award winning filmmaker Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) returns to Atlantic to open the season with his fourth world premiere, and first full length play, following his acclaimed productions of Almost an Evening, Offices and Happy Hour. He has made fifteen movies with his brother Joel, including the Academy Award winning films No Country for Old Men and Fargo; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Raising Arizona; Barton Fink; The Hudsucker Proxy;The Big Lebowski; Burn After Reading and True Grit.

Director David Cromer recently staged the Off Broadway productions of Nikolai and the Others, Really Really and Tribes. He was honored with both the Lucille Lortel and Obie Award for his staging of the unanimously acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Our Town, in which he also starred as the Stage Manager. Broadway credits include the revivals of Brighton Beach Memoirsand The House of the Blue Leaves. His hit production of Adding Machine: A Chamber Musical, transferred Off Broadway from his native Chicago, garnering him an Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction.

Robert Beitzel most recently appeared Off Broadway in In Masks Outrageous and Austere and David Cromer's production of Our Town. Halley Feiffer received a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut performance in The House of the Blue Leaves. Susan Pourfar starred Off Broadway in Tribes, for which she received Obie and Theatre World Awards, and can currently be seen on the hit ABC series "Scandal." Tony Award nominee Deborah Rush most recently appeared in theEncores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, on Broadway in Blithe Spirit and on television in the new hit series "Orange is the New Black."

WOMEN OR NOTHING will feature scenic design by Michele Spadaro, costume design by Sarah Laux, lighting design byBradley King and original music and sound design by Daniel Kluger.

Atlantic Theater Company AT THE LINDA GROSS THEATER is located at 336 West 20th Street (between 8th & 9th Avenues). All tickets are $65.00 and available by calling OvationTix (866.811.4111), visiting the Atlantic Stage 2 box office at 330 West 16th Street, or going online to atlantictheater.org.

Photo Credit: Kevin Thomas Garcia