Ensemble Studio Theatre & Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Extend PLEASE CONTINUE

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (EST) (William Carden, Artistic Director, Paul A. Slee, Executive Director) and ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION (Doron Weber, Vice-President, Programs) are proud to announce that due to popular demand, the limited engagement of PLEASE CONTINUE, written by Frank Basloe and directed by William Carden, will extend at EST's Curt Dempster Theatre (549 W. 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019). Presented in association with The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, tickets for this production are now on sale at OvationTix.com for performances through Sunday, March 6, 2016.

Yale, early 1960s. Professor Stanley Milgram's "obedience experiments" test how cruel people can be when they are just following orders. Milgram gets the data he needs, but the lab assistant who conducted the experiment is left to grapple with his own responsibility. Weaving in a historically separate incident, playwright Frank Basloe's PLEASE CONTINUE dramatizes a campus scandal in order to burrow deeper into the ways conformity can push us to act against our conscience.

The cast of PLEASE CONTINUE features Haskell King (The Fly Room; "As The World Turns"), David Jackson (I Loved Sam Stone; The Private Sector), Tommy Schrider (War Horse; Macbeth), Jared McGuire (Between Josie and Maria; Skype War), Jonathan Randell Silver (Daddy Took My Debt Away; Christmas in Queens), Dylan Dawson ("Nurse Jackie"; Five Times in One Night), Alex Herrald (Metro Cards; Just Right Just Now), and Molly Carden (Downtown Race Riot; Emotional Creature).

Tickets range from $20 to $40 and can be purchased in advance at www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org or by calling (866) 811-4111. The performance schedule is as follows: Monday at 7pm, Wednesday - Saturday at 7pm, Saturday at 2pm, Sunday at 5pm.

EST is proud to continue their partnership with the Sloan Foundation through the EST/Sloan Project, which has commissioned and developed hundreds of new science-themed plays. 2015 grantees include Will Aronson (My Scary Girl; Mother, Me and the Monsters), Sarah Hammond (Green Girl; House on Stilts), Susan Bernfield (Tania in the Getaway Van; Big Hungry World), Alexander Borinsky (What I Found in Montana; Lost Tribe), Sam Chanse (Lydia's Funeral Video; Fruiting Bodies), Dustin Chinn (Snowflakes; Sharksucker), Sarah DeLappe (The Wolves; Parabola), Ryan Dowler (STIFF; The Gratifications), Ryan Fogarty (The Obligation; Goldfish Love), Keli Garrett (Funkland; Red Clay Hills), Joe Gilford (Finks; Danny's Brain), Robert Lyons (Red-Haired Thomas; Doorman's Double Duty), Ana Nogueria (Empathitrax), Tommy Smith (Fireman; White Hot), Will Snider (The Big Man; How to Use a Knife), Craig Hatkoff (Stargazer), and Eleanor Burgess (Start Down). The EST/Sloan Project is also funding four productions and workshops through NP2 Regional Seed Grants including productions of Spill by Leigh Fondakowski at TimeLine Theatre in Chicago and Some Brighter Distance by Keith Reddin at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and developmental workshops of Paradise by Laura Maria Censabella at Underground Railway Theatre in Cambridge, MA and Project Dolly by Eric Conger at the Barrow Theatre Group in New York.

EST's 2015/2016 season will continue with the world premiere of KENTUCKY, a co-production by EST/The Radio Drama Network and Page 73 Productions. Written by Leah Nanako Winkler and directed by Morgan Gould, KENTUCKY begins performances on April 20, 2016. BOY, a co-production between the EST/Sloan Project and Keen Company, begins previews on Tuesday, February 23 and opens on Thursday, March 10 at The Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row (410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036) for a limited run through Saturday, April 9.

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