Signature Theatre Adds 16 Performances for the US Premiere of TITLE AND DEED

Signature Theatre today announced that they have added 16 performances to the run of the US premiere of TITLE AND DEED, a new play by Will Eno and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. The production, starring Conor Lovett, will run May 8 – June 17, 2012 with a May 20 opening night in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Company's new home The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42^nd Street between 9^th and 10^th Avenues). The production is presented in association with Gare St Lazare Players Ireland. Tickets for these additional performances will be $25, as part of the groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access. 

A nameless traveler from a far off place searches for connection and solace in an unknown country in this funny and sad meditation on mortality, loneliness, innocence, home, family, love, funerals, words, and the world. TITLE AND DEED is a provocative new work by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Horton Foote Prize winner Will Eno.

The critically acclaimed Gare St Lazare Players Ireland has toured to over seventy cities in twenty-five countries worldwide.   Gare St Lazare Players was originally founded in Chicago by Artistic Director Bob Meyer in 1983, and moved to France in 1988.  In 1996, Conor Lovett (Actor) and Judy Hegarty Lovett (Director) formed the Gare St Lazare Players Ireland, internationally renowned for creating elegant text-and-performance based productions of Samuel Beckett's prose.  Conor Lovett, who trained in Paris at the École Jacques Lecoq, has become known as one of the world's best living Beckett performers.  Judy Hegarty Lovett has directed him in eleven solo shows for the company.  Gare St Lazare Players Ireland's most celebrated performances include Molloy (1996), Malone Dies (2000), The Beckett Trilogy (2001),  First Love (2008), The End (2008) and The Calmative (2010).  In 2009 Lovett and Hegarty Lovett adapted Herman Melville's Moby Dick as a two hour piece for solo actor and live musician.  For his performance Lovett was a Best Actor nominee at the 2010 Irish Times Theatre Awards.  In 2009 Gare St Lazare Players Ireland performed First Love at The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival and the performance was described as "such a pleasing triumph" by The New York Times. 

Residency Five playwright Will Eno wrote Title and Deed specifically for Conor Lovett, who is a fan of Eno's work in return: "Will has a truly unique poetic voice which, for all its apparent lack of ornamentation, succeeds in creating a sublimely mesmeric world all his own." 

The design team includes Christine Jones (Scenic Designer), Andrea Lauer (Costume Designer) and Ben Stanton (Lighting Designer). Donald Fried is Production Stage Manager.

Single tickets are now on sale for TITLE AND DEED at the Signature Theatre Box Office (212-244-7529) and at signaturetheatre.org. Tickets are also on sale for Athol Fugard's MY CHILDREN! MY AFRICA!and Kenneth Lonergan's MEDIEVAL PLAY, as well as for the twice-extended Edward Albee'S THE LADY FROM DUBUQUE, which must close on April 15. 

Title and Deed is the recipient of an award from Culture Ireland.

Tickets to the initial runs of all productions of Signature's Inaugural Season at The Pershing Square Signature Center are $25, part of the groundbreaking Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access, a program that guarantees affordable and accessible tickets to every Signature production for the next 20 years.  Serving as a model for theatres and performing arts organizations across the country, the Initiative was founded in 2005 and is made possible by lead partner The Pershing Square Foundation and founding sponsor Time Warner, Inc., with additional seed support provided by the Ford Foundation, Margot Adams, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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