Playwrights Horizons Extends THE FLICK Through April 7

Due to popular demand, Playwrights Horizons has announced an extension of its critically-acclaimed, sold out World Premiere production of The Flick, a new play by the heralded Obie Award-winning playwright Annie Baker (Circle Mirror Transformation at PH, The Aliens, her recent adaptation of Uncle Vanya). Originally set to play a limited engagement through Sunday, March 31, the production has extended to Sunday, April 7 at Playwrights Horizons' Mainstage Theater (416 West 42nd Street). The Flick began previews Friday, February 15 and had its official opening on Tuesday, March 12.

The cast features Louisa Krause, Obie Award winner Matthew Maher, Aaron Clifton Moten and Alex Hanna.

In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees (Ms. Krause, Mr. Maher and Mr. Moten) mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles, and not-so-tiny heartbreaks, more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen, play out in the empty aisles. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

The production features scenic and costume designs by David Zinn, lighting design by Jane Cox and sound design by Bray Poor. Production Stage Manager is Katrina Herrmann.

The performance schedule for The Flick is Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7PM, Thursdays and Fridays at 8PM, Saturdays at 2:30 PM & 8PM and Sundays at 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM. Single tickets, $70, may be purchased online via www.TicketCentral.com, by phone at (212) 279-4200 (Noon-8pm daily), or in person at the Ticket Central Box Office, 416 West 42nd Street (between Ninth & Tenth Avenues).

Reflecting Playwrights Horizons' ongoing commitment to making its productions more affordable to younger audiences, the theater company will offer HOTtix, $25 rush tickets, subject to availability, day of performance only, starting one hour before showtime to patrons aged 30 and under. Proof of age required. One ticket per person, per purchase.

HOTtix is one of Playwrights Horizons' popular Arts Access initiatives, which allow the institution to reach out to those who may not be able to afford the cost of a full-price theater ticket. This program is supported, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and The McGraw-Hill Companies.

Following The Flick, Playwrights Horizons' 2012/2013 season will continue with THE CALL, the World Premiere of a new play by Tanya Barfield, directed by Obie Award winner Leigh Silverman in a co-production with Primary Stages; and FAR FROM HEAVEN, the World Premiere of a new musical featuring a book by Tony Award winner & two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Richard Greenberg, music by Tony Award nominee Scott Frankel, lyrics by Tony Award nominee Michael Korie and directed by three-time Tony Award nominee Michael Greif, featuring four-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara. The musical is based on the Focus Features / Vulcan Productions motion picture Far From Heaven, written and directed by Todd Haynes.

For ticket information to all Playwrights Horizons productions, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200, Noon to 8 pm daily, or purchase online at www.TicketCentral.com.

Annie Baker's (Playwright) full-length plays include Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Obie Award for Best New American Play), and Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright). Her plays have been produced regionally at South Coast Rep, the Guthrie, Victory Gardens, Artists Rep, Huntington Theater Company, Seattle Rep, Studio Theatre in DC, Hyde Park Theatre and the San Francisco Playhouse, and produced internationally in England, Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Latvia and Russia. Annie is a member of New Dramatists, the MCC Playwrights Coalition and she is a Residency Five Playwright at the new Signature Theatre. Recent honors include a United States Artists Collins Fellowship, New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Lilly Award, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship and a Master Artist Residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. An anthology of her work, The Vermont Plays, has been published by TCG, and her adaptation of Uncle Vanya had its World Premiere at Soho Rep in June 2012.

Sam Gold (Director) has collaborated with playwrights Annie Baker, Will Eno, Bathsheba Doran, Dan LeFranc, Stephen Belber, Nick Jones, Beau Willimon, Noah Haidle, Sam Marks, Betty Shamieh, Zoe Kazan, Theresa Rebeck and others. Recent credits: the current Broadway production of Picnic (Roundabout), Fun Home (The Public), Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep) The Big Meal (Playwrights Horizons, Lortel Award for Outstanding Director), The Realistic Joneses (Yale Rep, CT Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director), Seminar (Broadway, L.A.), Look Back in Anger (Roundabout, Lortel nomination for Outstanding Direction), We Live Here (MTC), A Doll's House (Williamstown), August: Osage County (Old Globe, San Diego Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Direction), Kin (Playwrights Horizons), The Coward (LCT3), Tigers Be Still (Roundabout), Dusk Rings a Bell (Atlantic), The Aliens (Rattlestick), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination; Obie Award for Outstanding Direction of both Circle Mirror Transformation and The Aliens), Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (Ars Nova/Under the Radar Festival). Sam is a Resident Director at Roundabout, NYTW Usual Suspect, Drama League Directing Fellow, recipient of the Princess Grace Award and a graduate of the Juilliard Directing Program.

Alex Hanna (Skyler/The Dreaming Man) is a 2012 graduate of The Juilliard School, where his credits included Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation, Hay Fever, All My Sons, Golden Boy, The Seagull and Once in a Lifetime. He's appeared in the National Tour of Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver and regionally in Going Live!. He also studied at The Guthrie and Tisch School of the Arts.

Louisa Krause (Rose) has appeared Off-Broadway in Iphigenia 2.0 (Signature) and In a Dark Dark House (MCC). Her many films include My Favorite Nightmare, The Speed of Life, The Babysitters, Taking Woodstock, Toe to Toe, Return, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Young Adult, King Kelly, Bluebird and You Can't Win. Regional work includes Rocket to the Moon (Long Wharf), Les Liasions Dangereuses (Huntington) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford Stage).

Matthew Maher (Sam) previously appeared at Playwrights Horizons in The World Over. Other New York: The Race for the Ark Tattoo (Obie Award, The Foundry), Golden Child (Signature), Red Handed Otter (Cherry Lane), Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep), School for Lies (CSC), Tales from My Parents' Divorce (Civilians), Orange, Hat & Grace (Soho Rep); The Small (Clubbed Thumb); Richard III (Public Theater); Coriolanus (TFANA). He is an Associate Artist of The Civilians.

Aaron Clifton Moten (Avery) made his Broadway debut in A Streetcar Named Desire. Other stage credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Two River Theater), Sweeney Todd (Texas Long Center) and King Lear (Exit). He's an alumnus of The Juilliard School, where his credits included Henry V, The Seagull, A Raisin in the Sun, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, A Month in the Country.

Playwrights Horizons is a writer's theater dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American Playwrights, composers and lyricists and to the production of their new work. Under the leadership of artistic director Tim Sanford and managing director Leslie Marcus, the theater company continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. In its 42 years, Playwrights Horizons has presented the work of more than 375 writers and has received numerous awards and honors, including a special 2008 Drama Desk Award for "ongoing support to generations of theater artists and undiminished commitment to producing new work." Notable productions include five Pulitzer Prize winners - Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park (2012 Tony Award, Best Play), Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife (2004 Tony Award, Best Play), Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles (1989 Tony Award, Best Play), Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George - as well as Lisa D'Amour's Detroit, Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale, Kirsten Greenidge's Milk Like Sugar (2012 Obie Award), Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn; Dan LeFranc's The Big Meal; Amy Herzog's After the Revolution and The Great God Pan; Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation (three 2010 Obie Awards including Best New American Play); Bathsheba Doran's Kin; Adam Bock's A Small Fire; Edward Albee's Me, Myself & I; Melissa James Gibson's This (2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist); Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie's Grey Gardens (three 2007 Tony Awards); Craig Lucas's Prayer For My Enemy and Small Tragedy (2004 Obie Award, Best American Play); Adam Rapp's Kindness; Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone; Lynn Nottage's Fabulation (2005 Obie Award for Playwriting); Kenneth Lonergan's Lobby Hero; David Greenspan's She Stoops to Comedy (2003 Obie Award); Kirsten Childs's The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (2000 Obie Award); Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey's James Joyce's The Dead; Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Assassins; William Finn's March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland; Christopher Durang's Betty's Summer Vacation and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You; Richard Nelson's Goodnight Children Everywhere; Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Once on This Island; Jon Robin Baitz's The Substance of Fire; Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room; A.R. Gurney's Later Life; Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's Floyd Collins; and Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley's Violet.

Photo Credit: Joan Marcus