'Almost an Evening' Welcomes Blumberg and Maloney 5/14

 ALMOST AN EVENING, Academy Award® winning film maker Ethan Coen's trio of comic plays directed by Neil Pepe, will welcome Kate Blumberg and Peter Maloney to the cast of the hit Off-Broadway production on Tuesday, May 13, 2008.
 
Atlantic Theater Company member Kate Blumberg returns to the Off-Broadway stage when she assumes the roles played by fellow company member Mary McCann - who played her final performance on May 11 in advance of appearing in Atlantic's upcoming production of Annie Baker's Body Awareness. Blumberg most recently appeared at Atlantic in Jez Butterworth's Parlour Song, Tina Howe's Birth and After Birth and Harold Pinter's Celebration and The Room. She was also featured in both of Woody Allen's world premiere plays at Atlantic, Writer's Block and A Second Hand Memory.
 
Stage veteran Peter Maloney will assume the roles played by F. Murray Abraham, who also played his final performance on May 11. Maloney won critical acclaim in Peter Parnell's Trumpery  earlier this season at Atlantic, where he has appeared in eleven productions, including David Mamet's adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance, Harold Pinter's Celebration and The Room and Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.
 
Following a sold out run at Atlantic Stage 2 this season, ALMOST AN EVENING transferred to a limited run at The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street when  previews began March 20 for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 1, 2008.
 
In Ethan Coen's ALMOST AN EVENING, three short plays unsuccessfully tackle important questions. In Waiting, someone waits somewhere for quite some time. In Four Benches, a voyage to self-discovery takes a British intelligence agent to steam baths in New York and Texas, and to park benches in the U.S. and U.K. In Debate, cosmic questions are taken up. Not much is learned.
 
ALMOST AN EVENING also features Mark Linn-Baker (Broadway's Losing Louie, ABC's "Perfect Strangers"), Tony Award®  nominee Johanna Day (Proof, Edward Albee's Peter and Jerry),  Steppenwolf Theater Company member Tim Hopper (Broadway's Present Laughter),  J.R. Horne (Broadway's The Crucible, Inherit the Wind), Atlantic founding member Jordan Lage (Broadway's Inherit the Wind), Del Pentecost (FX series "Starved," The Coen Brothers' O Brother Where art Thou?), and Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company member Joey Slotick (the series "Boston Public" and "The Single Guy").
 
ALMOST AN EVENING, sold out before previews began at Atlantic Stage 2 on January 9, opened January 22, and played a limited engagement through February 10, 2008.
 
ALMOST AN EVENING is produced by Atlantic Theater Company, Art Meets Commerce and Carole Shorenstein Hays.
 
BIOGRAPHIES
 
Kate Blumberg (Receptionist, Young Woman) is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company.   Off-Broadway: The Syringa Tree directed by Larry Moss.  At Atlantic: Parlour Song,  Birth and After Birth,  Harold Pinter's  Celebration and The Room, A Second Hand Memory and Writer's Block by Woody Allen; The Hiding Place; Sexual Perversity in Chicago; The Hothouse; Wolf Lullaby; Once in a Lifetime; Dangerous Corner; Blithe Spirit; The Women.   The Annex Theater Company: Two Gentlemen of Verona, Family Life, Mad Forest, Reckless.  Playwrights Horizons: Other People.  IncoacT/Creative Space:  Marie and Bruce.  Film: The Deal dir. Steven Schachter, Choke dir. Clark Gregg, Raving (independent short directed by Julia Stiles), We Pedal Uphill, The Cry, Seaside Trilogy; Serendipity; Picture This; Heartbreak Hospital.  Television: "Medium" (CBS), "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC), "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" (NBC), "Whoopi" (NBC); "All My Children" (ABC), "One Life to Live" (ABC); "Loving" (ABC); "The Jetsons" (industrial as Judy Jetson).  Various voice-overs including books on tape for the Andrew Heiskell Library for the Blind.   Graduate of NYU, Tisch School of the Arts.
 
Peter Maloney (Control, God who Judges) most recently appeared at Atlantic in the acclaimed world premiere production of Peter Parnell's Trumpery and David Mamet's adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. At Atlantic, he has also been seen in 10 x 20 (Leavings), The Room, The Cherry Orchard, Hobson's Choice, The Water Engine, Mr. Happiness, The Duck Variations, Down the Shore and The Dadshuttle. Broadway: Dinner at Eight, Arcadia, Carousel, Six Degrees of Separation, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Our Town (Lincoln Center), Judgment at Nuremberg, Stanley, Poor Murderer, Hughie. For four years he was a member of Joseph Chaikin's Open Theater, appearing here and in Europe in The Serpent, Terminal and Endgame in which he played Clov to Mr. Chaikin's Hamm. Film: 47 films, including K-Pax, Boiler Room, Requiem for a Dream, The Crucible, Washington Square. Television: Fans of "Rescue Me" will recognize him as "Uncle Red." Writer: his latest play Leash, (part of his Abu Ghraib Triptych), was just published by Applause Books in the collection Best American Short Plays of 2003-2004. He has also been published by Samuel French, Inc., Broadway Play Publishing, Faber and Faber, The Kenyon Review. Member: The Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre. Mr. Maloney is a Fox Foundation Fellow.
 
THE CRITICS HAVE SAID:
 
"Tasty, bite-sized comedies. Nimbly directed by Neil Pepe. Theatergoers nostalgic for the urbane, mind-teasing divertissements that once flourished Off-Broadway should leave happily hungry. A dream team!" - Ben Brantley, The New York Times
 
"Boisterous and fun! Coen couldn't ask for a better production than this Atlantic Theater Company treatment!" - Melissa Rose Bernardo, Entertainment Weekly
 
"Gleeful, thoughtful and darkly loopy! These new, lean pieces mark the serious stage debut of a shrewd and weirdly endearing comic voice." - Linda Winer, Newsday
 
"Razor-sharp performances. Very funny!" - Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News
 
ALMOST AN EVENING plays Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00pm, with Saturday matinees at 2:00pm and Sunday performances at 3:00 and 7:00pm.
 
Tickets are $50.00 and available by calling Telecharge at 212-239-6200 / 800-545-2559, online at almostanevening.com and telecharge.com or in person at The Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street (45 Bleecker Street between Lafayette and Mott Street; Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 – 8:00 p.m.). $20 Student Tickets may be purchased at the box office on the day of the performance only with a valid student ID.
 
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