Kate Walsh Accidentally Stops DUSK Performance for Beeping Hearing Aid

Contactmusic.com reports that Kate Walsh recently stopped a performance of the Off-Broadway two-hander DUSK RINGS A BELL when someone's beeping hearing aid interrupted a monologue. According to the article, Walsh thought the noise was created by a cell phone, and reported seeing a Blackberry out in the audience.

Explains Walsh of the incident: "The theatre is really intimate and small. I have six minutes of me talking alone and there's this 'Beep! Beep! Beep!' and I see a Blackberry (flashing) right in the blackout. And I'm like, 'Alright, what's going on, is this a cell phone?' And I'm looking out there. I had to stop the play."

Walsh has since apologized, and had never heard a beeping hearing device before.

Television star Kate Walsh Walsh ('Private Practice,' 'Grey's Anatomy') is now making her Off- Broadway debut in Stephen Belber's world premiere play DUSK RINGS A BELL at Atlantic Theater Company. Directed by Sam Gold (CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION) and co-starring Paul Sparks (Broadway's HEDDA GABLER, HBO's 'Boardwalk Empire'), DUSK RINGS A BELL began previews May 19, officially opened May 27 and has been extended through Saturday evening, June 26 Off-Broadway at Atlantic Stage 2 (330 West 16 Street).

Molly and Ray unexpectedly meet 25 years after a one-afternoon adolescent fling. She has a successful media career; he owns a small landscaping business. Both begin to romanticize their chance reunion, but a renewed connection is disrupted when Ray discloses the details of a crime that left him incarcerated for ten years. Their encounter reveals two vastly different paths taken and two lonely souls attempting to reclaim a moment of possibility, when they were young and perhaps at their very best.

Kate Walsh studiEd English Literature at the University of Arizona, trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop and The Oxford School of Drama, and appeared in The Tooth of Crime and Beauty and the Beast. She then starred in multiple theatre productions in Chicago, including Happy Birthday, Wanda June, The Danube, Moon Under Miami and Troilus and Cressida, A Pinter Landscape, Flesh and Blood and the critically-acclaimed Born Guilty. In New York, Walsh was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe Burn Manhattan and The New York City Players Theatre ensemble. Other theatre credits include The Four Twins at the Ontological Theatre, and the world premiere of Rich Maxwell's Flight Courier Service. In Los Angeles, Walsh was in Orlando at The Actors Gang, and still performs at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre and Improv Olympic. She currently stars as 'Dr. Addison Montgomery' on the ABC drama 'Private Practice,' following three seasons on the award-winning hit series 'Grey's Anatomy.' On the big screen, Walsh was most recently seen in the supernatural thriller 'Legion' opposite Paul Bettany and Dennis Quaid, and has completed production on the independent film 'Waska.'

DUSK RINGS A BELL plays Tuesday - Saturday at 7:30p and Saturday and Sunday at 2:30pm.There will be Wednesday matinees at 2:30pm on June 16 and 23.

All non-member tickets are $50 and available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (ticketcentral.com) or in person at ATLANTIC STAGE 2's box office located at 330 West 16th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). For general inquiries and group sales for both the main stage Linda Gross Theater

and Atlantic Stage 2, call 212-645-1242. For more information, please visit www.atlantictheater.org.

Photo credit: Monica Simoes

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