The Play Company Begins 10th Anniversary Season 10/15 With A Benefit, Includes Performance Of A STEADY RAIN

The Play Company, one of New York's leading Off-Broadway theatre companies dedicated to new plays with an international perspective, will kick off its 10th anniversary season with an evening to benefit the company that includes a performance of the new play by Keith Huff, A STEADY RAIN starring Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 W. 45 St.) on Thursday, October 15. The benefit evening will begin at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres at Angus McIndoe Restaurant (258 W. 44 St.), followed by the performance of the play at 8 p.m. Ticket are priced at $350 and $275 and can be reserved by calling Matt Morrow at 212 398 2977.

The Play Company - whose most recent offering was the acclaimed production earlier this year of Lloyd Suh's "American Hwangap" Off-Broadway - will begin its 10th anniversary season with new programs this fall and the production of new plays in 2010.

Under the guidance of Kate Loewald, Founding Producer and Lauren Weigel, Managing Producer, The Play Company is dedicated to advancing an international view of contemporary playwriting, linking New York City artists and audiences to a whole world of plays, and placing American work in a global context. Play Co. produces unusual, ambitious work that reflects and responds to the issues and events that shape our time. Recent productions include the U.S. premieres of Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's MADE IN POLAND (Poland); Robert Farquhar's BAD JAZZ (England); Vijay Tendulkar's SAKHARAM BINDER (India); Yoji Sakate's THE ATTIC (Japan); and The Presnyakov Brothers' TERRORISM (Russia); as well as world premieres of the American plays SMASHING by Brooke Berman and HIGH DIVE by Leslie Ayvazian. Play Co. received a 2007 Obie Award for its "unique contribution to the theatre community."

The benefit committee for A STEADY RAIN includes The Play Company's Board of Directors: Michael Dweck, James V. Hart, Ruth Hendel, Lawrence Kaplen, Kate Loewald, Victoria Reese, George Sheanshang, Jeffrey A. Sine, Christian Yegen.

For more information about The Play Company, visit www.playco.org