TACT & Gingold Theatrical Group to Stage WIDOWERS' HOUSES This Spring

TACT (Scott Alan Evans, Artistic Executive Director; Nora Chester, Associate Artistic Director; Greg McFadden, Associate Artistic Director) and GINGOLD THEATRICAL GROUP (David Staller, Founding Artistic Director) are proud to announce that WIDOWERS' HOUSES, the first play ever written by George Bernard Shaw, will be presented in a new production directed by Mr. Staller. WIDOWERS' HOUSES will begin performances on Tuesday, March 1, and open Sunday, March 13 at The Beckett Theatre @ Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036).

In Shaw's debut play - written during his time as an arts journalist in response to a dare by a fellow critic - a young man discovers an unsavory truth about his family-to-be, and is faced with choosing between his love and his ideals. WIDOWERS' HOUSES will play a strictly limited engagement at The Beckett Theatre @ Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) through Saturday, April 2.

Casting and design team for WIDOWERS' HOUSES will be announced at a later date. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased at Telecharge.com or by calling (800) 872-8997. The performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday at 7pm, Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30pm, Friday and Saturday at 8pm, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm. Exceptions: There will be at 2pm matinee on Wednesday, March 30. All tickets are at $63.25.

TACT is a company of theatre artists dedicated to creating intimate theatre experiences by putting a strong focus on new and reimagined texts and the actor's ability to bring it to life.

TACT's company of actors was drawn together in 1992 by a love of the literature of the theatre. Over the past 22 seasons and more than 150 productions, TACT has grown to become a true ensemble: a group that has developed a common vocabulary and a technique based on a shared artistic vision and collective body of work. TACT's company of professional theatre artists are veterans of the stage, film, and television whose cumulative experience includes scores of Broadway shows, hundreds of Off-Broadway plays, over a thousand regional theatre productions, and many films and television shows. These artists are committed to TACT because of the artistic opportunities offered: creative challenges, professional growth, and the chance to work on great plays that deserve to be seen more often in New York City.

From the compelling poetic language of Tennessee Williams's The Eccentricities of a Nightingale to the urban contemporary humor of Neil Simon's Lost in Yonkers, the plays TACT presents are propelled by language and ideas and explore the eternal truths of the human condition. Whether they take us to the darkest corners of the soul or to the highest reaches of the spirit, these plays ultimately enrich, involve and entertain.

TACT is a resident company of NYC's famed Theatre Row and produces their Mainstage, Off-Broadway productions there in the Beckett Theatre.

The 2012/2013 season marked the company's twentieth anniversary and TACT was honored by being named The Wall Street Journal's 2012 "Company Of The Year."

Gingold Theatrical Group, now in its 11th year, is a performance arts organization uniquely dedicated to presenting works that explore the timeless concepts of human rights and free speech using the insights of George Bernard Shaw as inspiration.

Out of concern for increasing threats to human freedoms and growing societal schisms, Artistic Director David Staller joined forces with like-minded friends to create GTG to provide not only outstanding entertainment but also a forum for reflection and discussion of universal rights issues. GTG strives to inspire positive change, mutual understanding and a greater acceptance of diversity.

GTG is the first theatrical group to present all of Shaw's 65 plays in performance. GTG's monthly series PROJECT SHAW plays to sold-out houses at Manhattan's Symphony Space. GTG also presents works by some of Shaw's contemporaries who inspired him including Wilde, Pinero, and new translations of Ibsen and Chekhov.

This production of WIDOWERS' HOUSES is part of GTG's annual SHAW NEW YORK festival, which provides a full production with ancillary events to complement the issues presented in the play, including talkbacks, a Shaw Symposium, a Critic Symposium, a Shaw Concert, and the performance of new plays specially commissioned by GTG.

A lifelong advocate of free speech, human rights, and nonviolence, Shaw wrote witty, provocative plays to empower the individual, to encourage bold personal choices, to challenge societal dictums, and to provide a voice for the disenfranchised.

GTG's goal is to carve a permanent niche for Shaw's precepts within the cultural life of New York by encouraging audiences of all ages and backgrounds to embrace the vital fundamental values of diversity and human rights.

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