Red Light Winter Opens Tonight Off-Broadway

RED LIGHT WINTER, a new play written and directed by Adam Rapp, opens tonight, Thursday February 9th at the Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow Street at 7th Avenue). Previews began on Friday, January 20th.

The production, which played a sold-out extended run at Chicago's acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre Company last summer features the original Steppenwolf actors that Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune proclaimed "superb and wonderfully cast": Christopher Denham, Lisa Joyce and Gary Wilmes.

The world premiere of RED LIGHT WINTER opened at Steppenwolf's Garage Theatre in Chicago on May 29, 2005, and was extended by popular demand. Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun Times described RED LIGHT WINTER as "Spellbinding and haunting, physically and emotionally graphic. RED LIGHT WINTER keeps you watching and listening. Rapp is the real thing – a poet in the grand tradition of 'la vie boheme'." Chris Jones, Variety, pronounced RED LIGHT WINTER as "A riveting, crackling achievement. RED LIGHT WINTER is full of 180-degree turns and sexually charged surprises."

RED LIGHT WINTER follows two men and a woman in very foreign territory. College friends Davis (Gary Wilmes) and Matt (Christopher Denham) spend a wild, unforgettable evening in Amsterdam's Red Light District with a beautiful young prostitute, Christina (Lisa Joyce). They find that their lives have changed forever when their bizarre love triangle plays out in unexpected ways a year later in the East Village.

Adam Rapp is a Chicago native, and the author of Animals and Plants, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Finer Noble Gases, Gompers and Faster, as well as the novels, Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, The Buffalo Tree, 33 Snowfish and Little Chicago. He recently joined the writing team of Showtime's "The L Word" and is the writer/director of the feature film, Winter Passing, starring Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel and Ed Harris, which will be released February 17 in New York and Los Angeles by Yari Film Group.

Now in its 30th Anniversary Season, Steppenwolf is a Chicago-based professional theater company committed to ensemble collaboration and artistic risk through its work with its ensemble, guest artists, partner institutions and the community. Founded in 1976 by Terry Kinney, Jeff Perry and Gary Sinise, with an ensemble of nine actors, Steppenwolf has now grown into an internationally renowned company of 35 artists whose talents include acting, directing, playwriting, filmmaking and textual adaptation.

The production features set design by Todd Rosenthal, costume design by Michelle Tesdall, lighting design by Keith Parham and sound design by Eric Shim.

RED LIGHT WINTER is produced by Scott Rudin/Paramount Pictures, Robyn Goodman, Roger Berlind, and Stuart Thompson.

The Barrow Street Theatre is located at 27 Barrow Street, at the corner of Seventh Avenue South. Closest subway stop is the Christopher Street station on the 1 line, or the A/B/C/D/E/F/V lines to West 4th Street. Long running hits at the theatre include Bug, by Tracy Letts, and Orson's Shadow, by Austin Pendleton. Tickets ($65) are available through Telecharge at 212-239-6200, or www.telecharge.com

NOTE: the play contains nudity and explicit sexual situations.

www.redlightwinter.com