TRIANGLE Comes To 59E59 Theaters, Previews 4/14

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) is proud to host the New York City premiere of TRIANGLE, written by Jack Gilhooley and Daniel Czitrom and directed by Stephan Morrow, which is part of Americas Off Broadway. Produced by Big Tim Productions in association with The Great American Play Series, TRIANGLE begins previews on Thursday, April 14 for a limited engagement through Sunday, May 1. Press opening is Wednesday, April 20 at 7:30 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday - Thursday at 7:30 PM; Friday & Saturday at 8:30 PM; and Sunday at 3:30 PM. The regular ticket price is $18 ($12.60 for 59E59 Members). To purchase tickets, call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 or visit www.59e59.org.

Turn-of-the-century New York's political underworld and immigrant energy come to life in this new play focused on the tumultuous love affair between the legendary political boss "Big Tim" Sullivan and the beautiful actress and reformer Margaret Holland. After years of an adulterous affair that produced a daughter, the notorious Tammany Hall power broker and the Seven Sisters' graduate find themselves inextricably bound by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911.

Renowned historian Daniel Czitrom and playwright Jack Gilhooley pieced together the compelling story of this unlikely pair fighting to liberate workers from sweatshop labor, which marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

The cast for TRIANGLE includes Ruba Audeh, Donna Davis, Bryant Mason, Michaela McPherson, Ashley C. Williams and Dennis Wit.

Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College, with special interest in the history of New York City and 20th century America. He is the author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (with Bonnie Yochelson, 2008); Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982); and co-author of Out of Many: A History of the American People (7th ed., 2011). He is currently writing New York Exposed: How A Gilded Age Police Scandal Shocked the Nation and Launched the Progressive Era, to be published by Oxford. He has appeared as a featured on-camera commentator in numerous documentary film projects, including New York: A Documentary Film (PBS, 1999), American Photography: A Century of Images (PBS, 1999), Slumming It: Myth and Culture on the Bowery (Mixed Greens, 2003). He is also co-author, with Jack Gilhooley, of the historical drama Red Bessie, produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2003.

Jack Gilhooley (playwright) NEA Individual Artist and International (Centaur Theatre, Montreal) grants, Fulbright Guest Artist Fellowships to Spain (U de Salamanca) and Ireland (National U. Maynooth), NYFTA grant, Puffin Foundation grants (2003 & 2006), Four FL Arts Council Fellowships, Pilgrim Project Development grant, Carnegie Fund, PEN grant, Shubert Fellowship, Canada Council grant, The first John Ringling Artists Fellowship and five Ford Foundation production subsidies. Plays produced and/or developed at NY Shakespeare Festival (w. Tommy Lee Jones), The Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference (w. Swoozie Kurtz), Circle Rep., The Phoenix, Culture Project, Urban Stages, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Theatre For The New City, Theatre Row, Long Wharf, Mark Taper Forum (w. Ed Asner), Indiana Rep, Northlight Rep (w. John Malkovich, Aiden Quinn & Laura Innes), The Shubert (Phila.), The Folger, Asolo Theatre and NPR's Earplay (w. John Lithgow & Christine Baranski). Produced across North America, Europe and Australia. Graduate, Syracuse U (Drama), Villanova U (Theatre), U of Pennsylvania (American Civilization). A proud alum of New Dramatists and Tampa Bay moderator of Dramatists Guild. The author is a member of Dramatists Guild.

Stephan Morrow (director) recently directed Mario Fratti's (Nine) acclaimed production of Trio at Theater for the New City and the first performance on book of Wall Street Fandango (formerly known as Play Time) at 45 Bleecker Street Theater with a cast that included Peter Riegert and Rosie Perez. In 2007 he acted in and directed a staged reading of The Deer Park or Hollywood Goes to Hell by Norman Mailer, which Mr. Mailer attended. On the basis of that work, Mr. Mailer invited Stephan to co-direct and perform in a film of The Deer Park. Stephen returned to The Deer Park in 2009, as actor and director, at The Nuyorican Poets Café. His long collaboration with Norman Mailer began with his performance as Rod, stuntman, in Strawhead - A memory play of Marilyn at The Actor's Studio and he can be seen in Mailer's cult classic Tough Guys Don't Dance. As Artistic Director and founder of The Great American Play Series he has had the pleasure of resurrecting neglected American classics in performances on book such as After the Fall by Arthur Miller with Rebecca DeMornay and Mark Rydell, Barry Primus, Lyle Kessler and Sally Kirkland; The Price by Arthur Miller with Barry Primus, Lyle Kessler, Paul Mazursky and Judith Light; and his own adaptation of Ten Blocks on The Camino Real (+1) by Tennessee Williams with Betsy von Furstenberg.

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