RUINED Featured In The Associated Press

The Manhattan Theatre Club and Goodman Theatre co-production of Ruined is currently in featured in the Associated Press. Click here to read the story.

Ruined was recently nominated for three 2009 Lucille Lortel Award nominations: Outstanding Play, Outstanding Director (Kate Whoriskey), and Outstanding Lead Actress (Saidah Arrika Ekulona). The production is currently playing an extended engagement at New York City Center – Stage I (131 West 55th Street). Tickets for Ruined are currently on sale through May 10.

From Lynn Nottage, the Obie Award-winning author of such plays as Fabulation and Intimate Apparel and director Kate Whoriskey (The Piano Teacher, Fabulation), comes this haunting, probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war. Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, this powerful play follows Mama Nadi (Ekulona), a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?

Tickets for Ruined are available via New York City Center Box Office (131 West 55th Street), CityTix® (212-581-1212) and www.nycitycenter.org. Tickets cost $75.

For more information, visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.