292 Theatre presents IN THE BAR OF A TOKYO HOTEL

In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, one of Tennessee Williams lesser known works plays for a limited run at 292 Theatre on The Lower East Side. The production was recently produced at the 2016 Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts where it played to sold-out houses. Legendary New York actor/writer/director, Everett Quinton who is best known for his work with Ridiculous Theatrical Company, directs.

Charles Schick and Regina Bartkoff first presented In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel on the little stage of 292 Theatre in 2012, joining Brandon Lim and Wayne Henry to earn rave reviews. Backstage magazine gave the production a particularly stellar review, a distinct honor for a house of twenty seats. In 2016 they took the play to the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, with its original New York City cast, this time directed by Everett Quinton.

Williams takes his action to Japan, where Mark, a successful American alcoholic painter, has holed up in his Tokyo hotel room, dashing out increasingly incomprehensible work. Meanwhile, Mark's promiscuous wife, Miriam, fearful he will ruin his reputation - and her standard of living - has summoned Leonard, Mark's New York agent.

The Provincetown cast returns for the New York production which includes Regina Bartkoff, Wayne Henry, Brandon Lim, and Charles Schick. The creative team includes sound and light design by Michael Aguirre, and costume design by Ramona Ponce.

Performances take place at 292 Theatre/Gallery, 292 East Third Street (between Ave C & D), New York, NY 10009. Subway: F to 2nd Avenue. Tickets are $20.00 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2873497 - Due to limited seating, advanced tickets are recommended. Running time: 90 minutes.

Show Dates:

Wednesday, March 15th at 8:30 pm

Thursday, March 16th at 8:30 pm

Friday, March 17th at 8:30 pm

Saturday, March 18th at 8:30 pm

Wednesday, March 22nd at 8:30 pm

Thursday, March 23rd at 8:30 pm

Friday, March 24th at 8:30 pm

Saturday, March 25th at 8:30 pm

More information is available at www.292theatre.com

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Tennessee Williams (Playwright), born Thomas Lanier Williams in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi won Pulitzer Prizes for his dramas, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Other plays include The Glass Menagerie, Summer and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo, Camino Real, Suddenly Last Summer, Sweet Bird of Youth and Night of the Iguana. He also wrote a number of one-act plays, short stories, poems and two novels, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Moishe and the Age of Reason. He died in 1983 at the age of 72.

Everett Quinton (Director) has worked for over 40 years as an actor, writer, and designer. Born in Brooklyn and educated at Hunter College, Everett Quinton moved to New York City in 1976 to join the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, which had been founded nine years earlier by the iconic actor, director, and writer Charles Ludlum. The shows performed by Quinton and his peers laid much of the groundwork for Theatre of the Ridiculous, a genre which frequently explored queer themes, surrealistic design, cross-gender casting, stylized acting, pop culture critiques, and an avant-garde ethic.

Quinton and Ludlum became life partners, co-starring in many RTC productions. Quinton appeared in Ludlam's Medea, The Secret Lives of the Sexists, Salammbo, Galas, The Artificial Jungle and the original production of The Mystery of Irma Vep (Obie and Drama Desk Award). He was also seen in Georg Osterman's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Brother Truckers (Bessie Award); Richard and Michael Simon's Murder at Minsing Manor (Drama League Award); as well as in his own plays: Carmen, Linda, Movieland, A Tale of Two Cities (Obie Award), and Call Me Sarah Bernhardt. In 1987, Ludlum died from complications from AIDS. Quinton took over as artistic director and kept the company going until 1997.

Quinton has recently appeared in The Witch of Edmonton at Red Bull Theater, in Devil Boys from Beyond at New World Stages, in The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., and in The McCarter Theatre's A Christmas Carol. He is also a member of Cleveland State University's Summer Stages. Film and TV credits include Natural Born Killers, Big Business, Deadly Illusion, Forever Lulu, Miami Vice and Law & Order.

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