Roundabout's Suddenly Last Summer Extends Through Jan. 20

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is thrilled to announce a one-week extension of the Off-Broadway revival of Suddenly Last Summer now through Saturday, January 20th, 2007 at 7:30PM!

The limited engagement was previously scheduled through January 14th, 2007.

Tennessee Williams' drama Suddenly Last Summer, directed by Mark Brokaw, features Becky Ann Baker (Mrs. Holly), Blythe Danner (Mrs. Venable) Carla Gugino (Catharine Holly), Gale Harold (Doctor Cukrowicz), Sandra Shipley (Sister Felicity), Karen Walsh (Miss Foxhill) and Wayne Wilcox (George Holly).

Suddenly Last Summer began previews on Friday, October 20th, 2006 and opened officially on Wednesday, November 15th, Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). The limited engagement which was previously scheduled through January 14th, 2007 has been extended through January 20th, 2007.

Mark Brokaw (The Constant Wife) directs this new production of the psychological drama by Tennessee Williams. Tony® and Emmy award winner Blythe Danner (Follies, TV's "Huff") stars as the formidable Mrs. Venable, an aging widow distraught over the mysterious death of her son. When the young cousin traveling with him, played by Carla Gugino (After the Fall), begins raising scandalous allegations Mrs. Venable enlists the help of a young doctor, played by Gale Harold (TV's "Queer as Folk", "Vanished"), to preserve her son's reputation.

TICKET INFORMATION:

Tickets are now available 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). Ticket prices range from $63.75 - $73.75. PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:

Suddenly Last Summer 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 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 2006-2007 season sponsor of the Roundabout Theatre Company. American Airlines is the official airline of Roundabout Theatre Company.

The 2006-2007 Roundabout Theatre Company season also includes Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's The Apple Tree starring Kristin Chenoweth, directed by Gary Griffin; George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House starring Philip Bosco & Swoosie Kurtz, directed by Robin Lefevre; Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones and N. Richard Nash's 110 In the Shade starring Audra McDonald, directed by Lonny Price; Patrick Marber's Howard Katz starring Alfred Molina, directed by Doug Hughes (American premiere); and Brian Friel's The Home Place directed by Joe Dowling (American premiere).

On September 19th, 2006, Roundabout Theatre Company premiered the first national tour of their critically acclaimed production of Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men, directed by Scott Ellis, starring George Wendt and Richard Thomas. The 30-week tour began at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. This production marked the first time the show was ever seen on a Broadway stage. Its record-breaking run earned three Tony Award nominations and unanimous praise from the critics.

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