'All Through the Night', New Play by Shirley Lauro Opens Oct. 1 Off-Broadway

Having received its world premier production in Chicago where is received a Jefferson Award Nomination for "Best New Play in Chicago," Shirley's Lauro's "All Through The Night" will begin its New York engagement Thursday, October 1st (8PM) at Off Broadway's Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater (5 West 64th Street at Central Park West). Directed by Melanie Moyer Williams, the play is produced by The Red Fern Theatre Company---a company which has made its mark not only producing socially conscious work-but partnering with philanthropies whose mission seeks to assist those affected by the issues addressed in each new project. Red Fern will soon announce the philanthropy partner for All Through The Night.

Inspired by interviews with German Gentile women, and set during and after the Third Reich, All Through The Night speaks directly with a warning for today. Both stylistic and surrealistic, the play sweeps through the lives of four women---their teen years, young adulthood during the Holocaust and then beyond. Making overwhelmingly hard choices, they survive or succumb to Hitler's Reign and are changed forever.

All Through The Night will feature scenery designed by Adrienne Kapalko, costumes designed by Emily DeAngelis and lighting designed by Jessica Greenberg.

Award-winning playwright Shirley Lauro's most recent credits include her anthology, "Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women", co-edited with Alexis Greene, (New Press, 2009) and being chosen a "2009 Honoree of The Coalition of Professional Women in Arts and Media". Her latest play, The Radiant, won a 2008 Sloan Science Commission and enjoyed its first staged reading, June 2009, at The Actors Studio. A Piece of My Heart premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club and was revived in New York by the Red Fern Theater Company in 2008, Melanie Moyer Williams, directing. With over 1000 other productions around the world, the play was recently designated by VW Veterans, Inc.: "The most enduring American play on Vietnam". Her play Clarence Darrow's Last Trial received a "2006 Carbonell Nominee as ‘Best New Florida Play'", and an "NEA Access To Excellence Award." On Broadway, Ms. Lauro's Open Admissions received 1 Tony nomination, 2 Drama Desk nominations, and a Theatre World Award and she later adapted it for critically acclaimed CBS special starring Jane Alexander and Estelle Parsons. A Guggenheim Fellow, Ms.Lauro is a three-time NEA and a New York Foundation for the Arts winner.

All Through The Night will play Wednesday through Saturday evenings at 8PM with Sunday Matinees at 3PM. Tickets are $25. For more information and ticket purchase log onto: www.theatermania.com or phone 212-352-3101. To learn more about The Red Fern Theatre Company log onto: www.redferntheatre.org