Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Madigan directs the West Coast premiere of a new play by former publicist/talent manager/producer-turned-playwright Neil Koenigsberg. Off the King's Road opens June 27 as a guest production at the Odyssey Theatre. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Tom Bower (Out of the Furnace, Crazy Heart, Pollock, Die Hard 2) stars as retired American businessman
Matt Browne. After the death of his wife, Matt escapes to his favorite city, London, for a week's respite at a small hotel. The five person cast also includes
Casey Kramer, Thaddeus Shafer,
Michael Uribes and Maria Zyrianova.
Off the King's Road premiered in New York at Theater for the New City in 2013. Previously, Koenigsberg had two one-acts produced off-Broadway as part of the Summer Shorts Festival at 59 E. 59 St. Theaters: On A Bench and Fit. These two plays went on to a 2011 production as a double bill (under the collective title "Attachments") at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco as part of an international fringe festival.
Set design for the West Coast premiere of Off the King's Road is by Joel Daavid; lighting design is by Christina Schwinn; sound design is by Joseph "Sloe" Slawinski; costume design is by Sharell Martin; properties design is Katherine S. Hunt; graphic design is by Kiff Scholl; and casting is by
Michael Donovan, CSA. The stage manager is RitaCofield, and Racquel Lehrman, Theatre Planners produces.
Off the King's Road opens for press on June 27 and continues through Aug. 2. Performances take place Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. There will be four preview performances, June 19-26, on the same schedule. Tickets are $25 on Fridays and Sundays and $30 on Saturdays; previews are $15. The Odyssey Theatre is located at 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd., West Los Angeles, 90025. For reservations and information, call (323) 960-7712 or go to
www.plays411.com/kingsroad.
Photo Credit: Ed Krieger
Michael Uribes and Tom Bower
Casey Kramer and Tom Bower
Tom Bower and Thaddeus Shafer
Tom Bower and Maria Zyrianova
Tom Bower, Michael Uribes, Casey Kramer
Casey Kramer, Tom Bower, Michael Uribes
Thaddeus Shafer and Tom Bower
Casey Kramer and Tom Bower
Tom Bower and Maria Zyrianova
Tom Bower and Casey Kramer
Casey Kramer and Michael Uribes
