Martin Rayner to Guest on State of the ARTS Tomorrow

Martin Rayner, currently starring as Sigmund Freud in FREUD'S LAST SESSION, will be this week's special guest on the new radio talk show "State of the ARTS", hosted by Richard Pheneger on Bridgeport CT's WPKN (89.5 FM), tomorrow (Friday) at 12:40 PM. The interview may also be heard at wpkn.org. 

Mark St. Germain's FREUD'S LAST SESSION is the winner of the 2011 Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play, and the production recently celebrated it's 600^th New York performance at New World Stages (340 West 50^th Street). The Off-Broadway premiere engagement of FREUD'S LAST SESSION opened on July 22, 2010 to unanimous rave reviews and immediately became a sellout sensation, starring Mark H. Dold andMartin Rayner under the direction of Tyler Marchant. Currently in its second smash year, additional productions of FREUD'S LAST SESSION are set to open into 2013 in major markets across the nation and around the world, including London, Madrid, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Chicago, Seattle, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh. 

FREUD'S LAST SESSION centers on legendary psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud, who invites the young, rising academic star C. S. Lewis to his home in London. Lewis, expecting to be called on the carpet for satirizing Freud in a recent book, soon realizes Freud has a much more significant agenda. On the day England enters World War II, Freud and Lewis clash on the existence of God, love, sex, and the meaning of life – only two weeks before Freud chooses to take his own. Not just a powerful debate, this is a profound and deeply touching play about two men who boldly addressed the greatest questions of all time. Mark St. Germain's celebrated new play was suggested by the bestselling book The Question of God by Harvard's Dr. Armand M. Nicholi, Jr.

There have been an unusually high number of celebrity sightings at FREUD'S LAST SESSION, including such luminaries as Woody Allen, Richard Gere, Alec Baldwin, Neil Simon, Barbara Walters, Andy Rooney, Jerry Stiller, Frank Oz, Christiane Amanpour, Scott Adsit, Marcia Gay Harden, Dick Cavett, John Cleese, Patricia Heaton, John Kander, Dr. Ruth, Dan Lauria, Celeste Holm, T.R. Knight, Peter Shaffer, Tina Louise, Warner Wolf, Victoria Jackson, Cornel West, Mari Davi, The Amazing Kreskin, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. 

Martin Rayner's Broadway credits include The Invention of Love and Sixteen Wounded. His Off-Broadway appearances include Travels with My Aunt, Gates of Gold, Henry V, and Kit Marlowe. Martin's favorite regional roles were at Yale Rep: Underground and You Never Can Tell; McCarter: Loot; American Repertory Theater:King Lear and When We Dead Awaken; Wilma: The Invention of Love and The Magic Fire. TV credits include Dr. Chaotica on Star Trek: Voyager, Frasier and Benjamin Franklin.

FREUD'S LAST SESSION is presented Off-Broadway by Carolyn Rossi Copeland, Robert Stillman and Jack Thomas. The performance schedule is Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings at 8pm; with matinees Wednesday at 2:30pm, Saturday at 2pm, and Sunday at 3pm. Running time is 79 minutes with no intermission. Tickets are $65 and are available at Telecharge.com 212-239-6200 or through www.FreudsLastSession.com. A limited number of $21.50 Student Rush tickets (cash only, with valid student ID) are available at the box office beginning three hours prior to each performance.

For more information, visit www.FreudsLastSession.com.