Fran Kranz and Katherine Waterston Join Second Stage Uptown's BACHELORETTE 7/12

Fran Kranz and Katherine Waterston have joined the cast of the Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series production of Bachelorette, written by Leslye Headland and directed by Trip Cullman. Mr. Kranz and Ms. Waterston replace the previously announced Tate Ellington and Aya Cash. Preview performances of Bachelorette begin at Second Stage Theatre's uptown home, the McGinn/Cazale Theatre (Broadway at 76th Street) on Monday, July 12 with an opening night set for Monday, July 26 at 7:00pm.

FRAN KRANZ (Joe). Theater: The Legend of Alex (Mark Taper Annex), Angels in America, Bright Room Called Day, Henry IV, Anthony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night (Yale). TV: "Dollhouse," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," "Private Practice," "Welcome to the Captain" and "Frasier." Film: Donnie Darko, Training Day, Orange County, Matchstick Men, Admissions, Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas, The Village, Whirlygirl, Rise: Blood Hunter, Night of the White Pants, The TV Set, Careless, Weiners, Shades of Ray. Upcoming Film: Don't Fade Away, The Cabin in the Woods.

Katherine Waterston (Gena). NY Theater: Reborning (Summer Play Festival), Kindess (Playwrights Horizons), Los Angeles (The Flea Theatre), Smashing (The Play Co.). Workshops include: The Metal Children (Vineyard Theater), Out of the Water dir. Trip Cullman (The Cape Cod Theatre Project and New York Stage & Film), Hallway (The Orchard Project). Film: Taking Woodstock, Orchids, Michael Clayton, The Babysitters, Good Dick. Upcoming Films: The Factory, Almost in Love, Enter Nowhere. B.F.A. NYU Tisch School of the Arts

As previously announced, Bachelorette will also feature Tracee Chimo, Carmen M. Herlihy, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Eddie Kaye Thomas.
On the eve of her wedding, Becky has arranged the perfect bachelorette celebration - but after two party crashers, one manipulative maid of honor, and a bathtub of booze, things don't go according to plan. This New York premiere play is a brutally comic look at friendship and betrayal on the way to the altar.

Created as a program to help develop and provide exposure for the voices of a new generation of theatre artists, the Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series seeks to develop the skills of emerging playwrights, to provide early-career artists with the support of a major artistic institution, and to create new plays for the American Theatre. Each show has a limited rehearsal period, as well as a streamlined budget. The series has helped launch and advance the careers of several up-and-coming playwrights, including Rajiv Joseph (Pulitzer Prize finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Animals Out of Paper), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Good Boys and True, HBO's "Big Love"), Adam Bock (The Receptionist, The Drunken City), and Brooke Berman (Hunting and Gathering).

Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series 2010 kicked off earlier this summer with the New York premiere of Michael Golamco's Year Zero directed by Will Frears.

ABOUT Second Stage Theatre UPTOWN

The series premiered in 2002 with three new American plays: ...in the absence of spring..., written and directed by Joe Calarco; The Notebook, written by Wendy Kesselman and directed by Evan Yionoulis; and Hunt Holman's Spanish Girl, directed by Erica Schmidt. Second Stage Theatre Uptown was on hiatus in 2003 due to theatre repairs. The 2004 season saw the New York premiere of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's The Mystery Plays, as well as Brooke Berman's The Triple Happiness, starring Ally Sheedy. In 2005, the series presented the New York premiere of the critically acclaimed comedy Swimming in the Shallows, written by Adam Bock and starring Logan Marshall-Green, as well as the world premiere of Dan O'Brien's The Dear Boy. The 2006 series featured two world premiere comedies: Getting Home, written by Anton Dudley and directed by David Schweizer, and Rajiv Joseph's All This Intimacy, directed by Giovanna Sardelli. The 2007 series featured Marisa Wegrzyn's The Butcher of Baraboo, directed by Judith Ivey, and Joshua Tobiessen's Election Day, directed by Jeremy Dobrish. The 2008 series featured Carly Mensch's Len, Asleep in Vinyl, directed by Jackson Gay, and Rajiv Joseph's Animals Out of Paper, directed by Giovanna Sardelli.

Last season's Uptown Series featured two world premiere plays: Zakiyyah Alexander's 10 Things To Do Before I Die, directed by Jackson Gay, and Lila Rose Kaplan's Wildflower, directed by Giovanna Sardelli.

SCHEDULE AND TICKET INFORMATION

Bachelorette will be performed at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre (Broadway at 76th Street, 3rd floor) from Monday, July 12 - Saturday, August 7 on the following schedule: Monday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00pm. There will be no matinee performance on July 14 and July 21.

Tickets for performances of Bachelorette can be purchased at the Second Stage Theatre Box Office (305 West 43rd Street), by calling (212) 246-4422 or online at www.2st.com. Advance tickets are not available at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. Single tickets are $50; advance youth tickets (age 30 and under) are $20; and student RUSH tickets are $10 (available 30 minutes prior to curtain).

For more information, please visit www.2ST.com

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