Louis Jenkins & Mark Rylance's NICE FISH Begins Off-Broadway Run This Month

St. Ann's Warehouse continues its highly successful Inaugural Season in its "stunning" (New York Magazine) new theater on the waterfront in Brooklyn Bridge Park with the New York City Premiere of the American Repertory Theater's Nice Fish, conceived, written and adapted by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, directed by Claire van Kampen, and starring Rylance. The production will run for six weeks, February 14 - March 27, in the Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Theater.

Performances will take place February 14 at 5pm; February 16-20 and 23-27 and March 1-5, 8-12, 15-19 and 22-26 at 8pm; February 21 & 28 and March 6, 13, 20 & 27 at 7pm; February 20, 27 and March 5, 12, 19 & 27 at 3pm; and February 21 and March 6 & 13, 20 & 27 at 2pm. Critics are welcome Friday, February 19, at 8pm; Saturday, February 20, at 3pm and 8pm; and Sunday, February 21, at 2pm; for an official opening Sunday, February 21, at 7pm.

Tickets are $55-80 and can be purchased at www.stannswarehouse.org, 718.254.8779 and 866.811.4111. The new St. Ann's Warehouse is located in Brooklyn Bridge Park at 45 Water Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Mark Rylance, winner of Tony and Olivier Awards and currently an Oscar nominee for his role in Bridge of Spies, conceived and wrote Nice Fish with one of his heroes, the celebrated poet Louis Jenkins; they have adapted the play from Jenkins' book about ice fishingin Minnesota. Nice Fish takes place on a lake in frozen Minnesota where the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It's the end of the fishing season, and two men are out on the ice one last time, angling for answers to life's larger questions. A play woven together from the acclaimed prose poems of Louis Jenkins, Nice Fish reflects nature with a wry surreality. As Jenkins writes, they "are after something big, something down there that is pure need, something that, had it the wherewithal, would swallow them whole."

In addition toMark Rylance as Ron and Jim Lichtscheidl as Eric, the cast includes Louis Jenkins as Wayne, Bob Davis as the DNR Officer and Kayli Carter as Flo. The production features scenic design by Todd Rosenthal, costume design by Ilona Somogyi, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, and sound design by Scott Edwards.

The New York City Premiere of Nice Fish marks Rylance's first return to St. Ann's Warehouse since he performed, as Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, in the Globe's production of Measure for Measure in 2005.

The Guthrie Theater (Joe Dowling, Artistic Director) originally commissioned and produced Nice Fish in 2013. The revised new production comes to St. Ann's directly from the A.R.T., where its run concludes February 7.

Minnesota Monthly described the original production of Nice Fish as "inexplicable and utterly beautiful." WBUR Boston calls the new version "unassumingly charming."

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