THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT Extends Its Run Through April 3rd

LAByrinth Theater Company and The Public Theater announce that, due to audience demand, the world premiere of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, will extend its run through Sunday, April 3rd. Previews began in The Public Theater's Martinson Hall on Tuesday, February 8th. The press opening is Wednesday, March 2nd. The production was originally scheduled to close Sunday, March 20th.

A co-production between LAByrinth and The Public, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT is a time-bending serio-comic drama in an imagined world between Heaven and Hell that re-examines the plight and fate of The New Testament's most infamous and unexplained ultimate sinner. Throughout the play, figures ranging from Pontius Pilate to Sigmund Freud are called to testify in a trial of "God and the Kingdom of Heaven and Earth versus Judas Iscariot."

One of the most distinctive acting ensembles in the country, LAByrinth Theater Company, co-directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz, is in residence at The Public for a second season. Following GUINEA PIG SOLO (2004), THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT marks the second collaboration between the two theaters to develop new work. For more information on LAByrinth Theater Company, visit www.labtheater.org.

Performances of THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT play Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00pm, Saturday and Sunday at 2:00pm and Sunday at 7:00pm.

Tickets, which are $50 for performances through Sunday March 20th, are on sale at The Public Theater box office, 425 Lafayette Street; on-line at www.publictheater.org; and via Tele-charge.com, 212-239-6200. Tickets to performances beginning Tuesday, March 22nd through Sunday, April 3rd are $60. Box office hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 1:00pm to 7:30pm, and Sunday and Monday from 1:00pm to 6:00pm. Quik Tix, discounted rush tickets, are sold to the general public when available one half-hour before curtain time to any non sold-out performance. For group sales of 20 or more, please call 212-539-8621.

Stephen Adly Guirgis and LAByrinth Theater Company are participants in the Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, a project of the National Endowment for the Arts and Theatre Communications Group.

LAByrinth Theater Company receives public support from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and The New York State Council on the Arts, a state arts agency. Additional generous funding is provided by The Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund, established in The New York Community Trust by the founders of The Reader's Digest Association; The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation; The Lucille Lortel Foundation; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; The Shubert Foundation and Time Warner Inc.

The New York Community Trust - LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund provides leadership support for The Public Theater's year-round activities. Additional generous support is provided by Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman, JPMorgan Chase, The Laura Pels Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Ken Lerer and Katherine Sailer, Carole Shorenstein Hays, The George Delacorte Fund at The New York Community Trust - Fund for Performances at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Newhouse, Warren Spector and Margaret Whitton, The Starr Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Haywood, and the Booth Ferris Foundation. Public support is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. We are also deeply grateful to The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for its leadership commitment to The Public Theater's Endowment Fund in support of new work. Continental Airlines is the official airline of The Public Theater.