BRONTË Receives Open-Ended Run at Actors Temple Theatre

Alloy Theater Company, a not-for-profit, performing arts organization, is set to re-launch an open-end run of award winning playwright William Luce's, BRONTË, at the Actors Temple starring Maxine Linehan. The company recently staged a successful limited engagement production of the play - a biographical treatment based on correspondence between Charlotte and her life long friend Ellen Nussey, in May at Theater 511.

BRONTË is a tour de force role that was written specifically for legendary American actress Julie Harris. First introduced as a Masterpiece Radio Theatre presentation, it was later filmed for Irish television and this current version was brought to the stage by Miss Harris almost 25 years ago.

The new production of BRONTË features the Irish-born actress Maxine Linehan who was recently seen in the first national tour of Bartlett Sher's Tony award-winning revival of South Pacific. Directing is veteran theater leader Timothy Douglas, whose credits include the world premier of August Wilson's Radio Golf.

"This story of Charlotte Brontë speaks to me in a very personal way," Linehan says. "I read the play one night and by the time I'd reached the final page I knew I had to bring this woman to life on stage."

BRONTË A Portrait Of Charlotte is the first official Off-Broadway production of Alloy Theater Company. In its brief history the company has been responsible for the American premiere of Jacqueline McCarrick's The Mushroom Pickers and the first New York revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's cult hit, Tell Me On a Sunday.

BRONTË A Portrait of Charlotte opens Off-Broadway at the Actors Temple Theater (339 West 47th Street) in New York City. Previews begin July 12th. Opening night performance on August 1.