Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announced a new Off-Broadway production of David Rabe's award winning drama Streamers, directed by Scott Ellis. Streamers will begin performances on Friday, October 17th and open officially on Thursday, November 11th, 2008, Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street).
The cast will feature Hale Appleman (Richie), Larry Clarke (Sgt. Cokes), Ato Essandoh (Carlyle), Brad Fleischer (Billy), Charlie Hewson (Martin), John Sharian (Sgt. Rooney), J.D. Williams (Roger).
The design team includes
Neil Patel (Sets), Tom Broecker (Costumes),
Jeff Croiter (Lights) and John Gromada (Sound).
In this powerful American masterpiece, four young soldiers fresh from boot camp wait anxiously in 1965 Virginia, watching the Vietnam conflict escalate. As they struggle to make sense of their new life in the army, tensions rise over race, sexuality, and class, culminating in an explosive act that changes them forever. Streamers is an unflinching exploration of the turmoil and confusion facing young men threatened by forces beyond their control.
TICKET INFORMATION:
Tickets will be available in Summer 2008 by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212)719-1300, online at www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre box office (111 West 46 Street). Streamers will play a limited engagement.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
Streamers will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
Roundabout Theatre Company's Associate Artistic Director
Scott Ellis recently staged Roundabout's hit Tony nominated Broadway production, and subsequent two-year national tour, of Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men. Ellis returns to the Laura Pels stage following the recent production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane starring
Alec Baldwin.
Streamers premiered Off-Broadway in April 1976 and won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. Streamers was eligible for the Tony Awards in 1977 and was nominated for Best Play. This production of Streamers is based on the 2007 Huntington Theatre Company production directed by
Scott Ellis.
BIOGRAPHIES
David Rabe (Playwright). Plays include The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (first produced in 1971 by Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival), Sticks and Bones, The Orphan, In the Boom Boom Room, Streamers, Goose and Tom Tom, Hurlyburly, Those the River Keeps, Cosmologies, A Question of Mercy, Gilgamesh the Prince, and The Dog Problem. His work has been honored with numerous Tony Award nominations, OBIE Awards, and by the Drama Desk, Variety, the New York Drama Critics Society, and Outer Critics Circle. He won a 1972 Tony Award, and received the Hull Warriner Award for playwriting three times. He recently received the Helen Merrill Award for Distinguished Playwriting. Mr. Rabe's screenplays include I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, Streamers, Casualties of War, The Firm, Hurlyburly, and the upcoming The Untouchables: Capone Rising. Mr. Rabe also wrote the novel Recital of the Dog and a collection of short stories entitled A Primitive Heart. His newest novel Dinosaurs on the Roof is scheduled for publication by Simon & Schuster in the summer of 2008.
Scott Ellis (Director). Broadway credits include
Curtains (Tony Award nomination),
Douglas Carter Beane's The Little Dog Laughed (Drama League nomination), Twelve Angry Men (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations; Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for Best Revival; also the national tour),
Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck with Chris O'Donnell, The Boys From Syracuse, The Rainmaker with
Woody Harrelson, 1776 (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations), She Loves Me (Tony Award nomination; Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Musical Revival), Picnic (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Company, A Month in the Country with
Helen Mirren, and Steel Pier (Tony nomination; Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards). Other credits include the London production of She Loves Me (Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival and Best Director) and the Off Broadway productions of Entertaining Mr. Sloane with
Alec Baldwin, The Waverly Gallery with
Eileen Heckart,
David Rabe's Streamers & The Dog Problem, That Championship Season, Dark Rapture, And the World Goes 'Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), and Flora, the Red Menace (Drama Desk nomination). His New York City Opera credits include 110 in the Shade and A Little Night Music with
Jeremy Irons and Juliet Stevenson, as well as with
Victor Garber,
Judith Ivey, and
Zoe Caldwell for Los Angeles Opera. Mr. Ellis' television credits include "30 Rock" (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series), "The Closer," "Frasier," and "Hope and Faith." He was the director and co-conceiver of Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and "My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies" on PBS' "Great Performances." Mr. Ellis is the associate artistic director of the Roundabout Theatre Company.
HALE APPLEMAN (Richie). Huntington Theatre: Streamers, directed by
Scott Ellis. Appleman has also worked regionally at the Chatauqua Theatre Company with directors
Dylan Baker and Ethan McSweeny, appearing in The Art of Coarse Acting, 100 Saints You Should Know, and Twelfth Night. His film credits include Chad Lowe's upcoming debut feature, Beautiful Ohio starring
William Hurt, and the Sundance hit, Teeth, a feminist horror flick directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, opening November 30. Mr. Appleman is a graduate of New York City's LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, and has trained at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, The Actors Center, SITI Company, and the New York Shakespeare Festival Lab at The Public Theater.
LARRY CLARKE (Cokes). Huntington Theatre: Streamers, directed by
Scott Ellis. Appeared Off Broadway in
David Rabe's The Dog Problem directed by
Scott Ellis (Atlantic Theater Company, and Long Wharf Theatre), The Glory of Living directed by
Philip Seymour Hoffman (MCC Theater), and Thy Kingdom's Coming by
Jeff Daniels and Good directed by Seth Barrish (The Barrow Group). His L.A. theatre credits include Miss Julie (Lillian Theatre), and Mike O'Malley's Searching for Certainty directed by Peter Askin. Regional credits include Aunt Dan and Lemon, Paradise Lost, Hamlet, and Map of the World (Baltimore's Centerstage). Mr. Clarke appeared in the films In & Out, Company Man, and In My Sleep, and his television credits include "The Shield," "Medium," "Grey's Anatomy," "My Name is Earl," "ER," "Cold Case," "Boston Legal," "Close to Home," "CSI," "CSI: NY," "House," "Lost," and 21 episodes of "Law & Order."
ATO ESSANDOH (Carlyle). Huntington Theatre: Streamers, directed by
Scott Ellis. Before that, Ato was seen as Angelo in Measure for Measure at Manhattan Theatre Source. Last summer he performed alongside
Meryl Streep in
George C. Wolfe's production of Mother Courage and Her Children at The Public Theater/NYSF. Last winter he performed the title role in the Intiman Theatre's production of Native Son directed by Kent Gash. Other stage appearances include The Three Sisters and the title role in
Macbeth (both for Manhattan Theatre Source), Ronan Noone's The Blowin of Baile Gall (Irish Arts Center), Luminescence Dating (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Joshua James' Tallboy Walkin' (Trilogy Theatre). Mr. Essandoh's film and television credits include roles in Blood Diamond, Prime, Garden State, Hitch, Saving Face, Falling for Grace, Brother's Shadow, Nights in Rodanthe, "Law & Order," "Conviction," "Line of Fire," "Commander in Chief," and "Third Watch."
BRAD FLEISCHER (Billy). Huntington Theatre: Streamers, directed by
Scott Ellis. Fleischer's theatre credits include the Broadway production of Coram Boy (Drama League nomination, Ensemble), Pig Farm (Roundabout Theatre Company, and South Coast Repertory), Paris Commune (La Jolla Playhouse), f-ing A, Weight of Paper, The Dream Play, I Ain't Yo Uncle, and This is Our Youth. His film and television credits include The Good Shepherd (dir.
Robert DeNiro), "Jericho," "The Unit," "Law & Order," "Prison Break," and "Over There." Mr. Fleischer holds an M.F.A. from the University of California San Diego's graduate acting program.
CHARLIE HEWSON (Martin). Huntington Theatre: Streamers, directed by
Scott Ellis. Television and film credits include "Law & Order," The Nanny Diaries, and Awake. Mr. Hewson is a graduate of Princeton University and The Actors Center Summer Conservatory.
JOHN SHARIAN (Rooney). Huntington Theatre: Streamers, directed by
Scott Ellis. Other theatre credits include Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Sound Theatre), Fresh Kills, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Faith, and The One You Love (Royal Court Theatre), Action (Young Vic Theatre), All My Sons, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Hairy Ape, Lone Star, Private Wars, and Life and Death of a Buffalo Soldier (The Old Vic), Hamlet (Shaw Theatre), A View from the Bridge and
Macbeth (Theatre Royal), A Lie of the Mind (Battersea Arts Centre), Laundry Room at the Hotel Madrid (Gate Theatre), and Small Craft Warnings (Manchester Library Theatre Company). His film and television credits include Staten Island, Waz, The Machinist, Romasanta, Jason and the Argonauts, Saving Private Ryan, Lost in Space, 24 Hours in London, Fortress 2, New World Disorder, Dracula II: Ascension, The Snatching of Bookie Bob, The Fifth Element, Do Not Disturb, "CSI: Miami," "New Amsterdam," "Sex Traffic," "MI-5," "Red Dwarf," and "Crocodile Shoes." Mr. Sharian trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
J.D. WILLIAMS (Roger). Huntington Theatre: Streamers, directed by
Scott Ellis. Williams appeared as a series regular on HBO's "Oz" and "The Wire," and Spike TV's "The Kill Point." His other television credits include guest starring roles on "100 Centre Street," "Sex and the City," "Third Watch," "Homicide," "The Sopranos," "Law & Order," and "New York Undercover." Mr. Williams' film credits include 4 Life, Nite Tales: The Movie, Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler, Popcorn Shrimp, Pootie Tang, and 24 Hour Woman.
Roundabout Theatre Company is one of the country's leading not-for-profit theatres. The company contributes invaluably to New York's cultural life by staging the highest quality revivals of classic plays and musicals as well as new plays by established writers. Roundabout consistently partners great artists with great works to bring a fresh and exciting interpretation that makes each production relevant and important to today's audiences.
Roundabout Theatre Company currently produces at three permanent theatres each of which is designed specifically to enhance the needs of the Roundabout's mission. The off Broadway home, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre's Laura Pels Theatre with its simple sophisticated design is perfectly suited to showcasing new plays while the grandeur of its Broadway home, American Airlines Theatre, sets the ideal stage for the classics. Roundabout's Studio 54 provides an exciting and intimate Broadway venue for its musical and special event productions. Together these three distinctive venues serve to enhance the work on each of its stages.
Roundabout productions are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts; and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. American Express is the 2008-2009 season sponsor of the Roundabout Theatre Company. American Airlines is the official airline of Roundabout Theatre Company. The Westin New York is the official hotel of Roundabout Theatre Company.
Productions playing during Roundabout's 2008 spring season include
Stephen Sondheim &
James Lapine's
Sunday in the Park with George starring
Daniel Evans &
Jenna Russell, directed by Sam Buntrock;
Christopher Hampton's
Les Liaisons Dangereuses starring
Laura Linney & Ben Daniels, directed by
Rufus Norris;
Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo, directed by
Walter Bobbie. Roundabout's sold out production of
The 39 Steps transfers to the Cort Theatre beginning April 29th, 2008.
Roundabout Theatre Company's upcoming 2008-2009 season also includes Rogers & Hart's Pal Joey, directed by
Joe Mantello;
Lisa Loomer's Distracted, starring
Cynthia Nixon, directed by
Mark Brokaw and
Bob Fosse's Dancin', directed by Graciela Daniele.
Roundabout Theatre Company's critically acclaimed Broadway production of Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men has extended its multi-award winning touring production for a second year. Directed by Tony-nominated director
Scott Ellis (
Curtains) and starring
Richard Thomas as "Juror #8," Twelve Angry Men is appearing in numerous cities across the country in Spring 2008 including Hartford, Charlotte, Nashville and Toronto.
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