Peter Scolari to Play 'Pete Rose' in Reading of BANNED FROM BASEBALL

Patricia O' Hara's play Banned from Baseball, directed by Margarett Perry, will get an invite-only, industry presentation on July 17 at 3pm & 7pm a Theatre Row's Studio Theatre (410 West 42nd Street).

For more information, email lisadozier@gmail.com. Running time is 80 minutes without intermission.

Major League Baseball and former president of Yale University, Bart Giamatti (Jason Kravits), and baseball's reigning Hit King, Pete Rose (Peter Scolari), engage in a personal and legal combat for the soul of America's Pastime: a titanic battle that will leave Rose banned from baseball for life and Giamatti dead of a heart attack eight days after banishing Rose. Giamatti wants Rose's confession at all costs, and Rose wants Giamatti to accept his denials. Neither will concede, and in the course of the tragic events, "each man kills the thing he loves" (Oscar Wilde). Banned from Baseball was a finalist in the 2016 New American Playwright Competition.

Cast includes Peter Scolari (Broadway: Bronx Bombers, Lucky Girl, Magic/Bird) as Pete Rose, Jason Kravits (Broadway: Relatively Speaking, The Drowsy Chaperone) as Bart Giamatti, Bradford Cover (NYC: Love goes to Press, The Philanderer), Patrick Frederic, Curtis Longfellow (Regional: Noises Off), Jon Shaver (Regional: Clever Little Lies, All the Way), and Steve Vinovich (Broadway: All the Way). The presentation is being General Managed by Lisa Dozier King.

PATRICIA O'HARA (Playwright) is a writer and Professor of English Literature at Franklin & Marshall College where she teaches British and Irish literature and her favorite course, Baseball in American Lit and Culture. She is the former editor of Nineteenth Century Studies and has published scholarly essays on Victorian fiction and history. Her poems and personal essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines. Banned from Baseball is her first play.

Margarett Perry (Director) is an award-winning director of new plays. She has directed and developed new work Off-Broadway and in regional theatres across the country as well as in Scotland and London. This season, she directed the critically acclaimed world premiere of Seared by Theresa Rebeck at San Francisco Playhouse and Shrek The Musical at Connecticut Rep. She is the Resident Director at the Kitchen Theatre where she recently directed Brian Dykstra's award-winning play, Clean Alternatives. Perry is an Artistic Fellow at The Lark where she has worked with a variety of writers developing new plays. Upcoming projects include The House by Brian Parks at the Human Race and Education by Brian Dykstra at 59E59. Go to www.margarettperry.com.

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