Website for Stoppard Bway-Bound 'Rock 'n' Roll' Launches

The website for Rock 'n' Roll, the new play by four time Tony Award-winner Tom Stoppard, has been launched at www.RocknRollThePlay.com.  The site features production photography, bios and program notes from Tom Stoppard and director Trevor Nunn. 

Following a record-breaking run in London's West End, Rock 'n' Roll will open on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45th Street) on November 4, 2007.   Previews will begin on October 19, 2007.  The premiere marks the 40th anniversary since Stoppard was first introduced to Broadway audiences with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.

Members of the original London company, including Brian Cox, Sinéad Cusack and Rufus Sewell (winner of the Olivier,  London Evening Standard and London Critics' Circle Awards for his performance), along with Nicole Ansari and Alice Eve, will appear in the Broadway production of Rock 'n' Roll.

Tickets are now on sale to American Express cardholders.   Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, August 29.  Box office at the Jacobs Theatre will open on Monday, October 1. 

Rock 'n' Roll received its world premiere at the Royal Court as part of the theatre's 50th Anniversary celebration and subsequently transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre for a sold-out run. 

Winner of the London Evening Standard and London Critics' Circle Theatre Awards for Best New Play, Rock 'n' Roll will be produced on Broadway by Sonia Friedman Productions, Bob Boyett, Ostar Enterprises, Roger Berlind and Tulbart Productions, in association with Lincoln Center Theater.

Nicole Ansari, Sinéad Cusack and Rufus Sewell are appearing with the permission of Actors' Equity Association. The producers gratefully acknowledge Actors' Equity Association for its assistance to this production.

"It's August 1968, and Russian tanks are rolling in to Prague.  Jan, the Czech student, lives for rock music, Max, the English professor, lives for Communism and Esme, the flower child, is high. By 1990, the tanks are rolling out, the Stones are rolling in and idealism has hit the wall. A deeply felt look at the connection between rock music and revolution, Stoppard's sweeping and witty play spans two countries, three generations and twenty-two turbulent years, at the end of which love remains - and so does rock 'n' roll," as press notes describe the play.

Set design is by Robert Jones, costume design is by Emma Ryott, lighting design is by Howard Harrison and sound design by Ian Dickinson. 

Stoppard was most recently represented on Broadway with the acclaimed Lincoln Center Theater production of The Coast of Utopia, which last season won a record-breaking seven Tony Awards, including Best Play. 

Further casting and ticket information will be announced in coming weeks.

Visit www.RocknRollThePlay.com for more information.