Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), in association with Sonia Friedman Productions and Ostar Productions presents Sienna Miller as "Miss Julie" and Jonny Lee Miller as "John" in the American premiere of playwright Patrick Marber's drama After Miss Julie, a version of Strindberg's Miss Julie, directed by Mark Brokaw.
After Miss Julie will begin preview performances on September 18th, 2009 and open officially on October 22nd, 2009 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). This is a limited engagement through December 6th, 2009.
The design team includes
Allen Moyer (Sets),
Michael Krass (Costumes),
Mark McCullough (Lights) and
David Van Tieghem (Original Music & Sound).
After Miss Julie transposes
August Strindberg's 1888 play about sex and class to an English country house on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in 1945.
TICKET INFORMATION:
Beginning July 10th, 2009, tickets will be available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212)719-1300, online at
www.roundabouttheatre.org or at the American Airlines Box Office (227 West 42nd Street). Ticket prices range from $66.50 to $111.50. Through ACCESS Roundabout, 100 tickets at $10 will be available for each of the first four preview performances beginning September 18.
Mark Brokaw's production of
Lisa Loomer's play Distracted, starring
Cynthia Nixon, recently concluded its extended limited engagement at Roundabout's
Laura Pels Theatre. His other past Roundabout productions include the 2006 production of
Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer with
Blythe Danner and
Carla Gugino and The Constant Wife at the American Airlines Theatre in 2004.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
After Miss Julie will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 p.m.
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 homes each of which is designed specifically to enhance the needs of the Roundabout's mission. Off-Broadway, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the
Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, with its simple sophisticated design is perfectly suited to showcasing new plays. The grandeur of its Broadway home on 42nd Street, 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.
American Airlines is the official airline of
Roundabout Theatre Company. 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.
Roundabout Theatre Company's 2009-2010 season includes
Mark Saltzman,
Irving Berlin &
Scott Joplin's The Tin Pan Alley Rag, directed by
Stafford Arima;
Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie, starring
Sienna Miller & Jonny
Lee Miller, directed by
Mark Brokaw;
Michael Stewart,
Lee Adams and
Charles Strouse's Bye Bye Birdie, starring
John Stamos,
Gina Gershon,
Bill Irwin & Nolan Funk, directed and choreographed by
Robert Longbottom;
Carrie Fisher's
Wishful Drinking, directed by
Tony Taccone;
Theresa Rebeck's The Understudy, with
Julie White, directed by
Scott Ellis; Noël Coward's Present Laughter starring
Victor Garber, directed by
Nicholas Martin;
Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, directed by
Gordon Edelstein. Roundabout's sold out production of The 39 Steps made its second Broadway transfer to the
Helen Hayes Theatre on January 21, 2009.
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