The Acting Company and Guthrie Theater Join For ROMEO AND JULIET 4/20-24

The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts' season of Shakespeare concludes with two of America's most renowned touring/regional theater companies - The Acting Company and The Guthrie Theater - in six performances of Romeo and Juliet, April 20 - 24, 2010. The Annenberg Center is the final stop on a 26-city tour for The Acting Company and Guthrie Theater that has taken them to college campuses and other performing arts venues across the country since early January. Tickets for the performance are $20-$55. For tickets or for more information, please visit AnnenbergCenter.org or call 215.898.3900. Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Annenberg Center Box Office.

Young love has never been so delightful or dangerous as in this stirring new production co-produced by The Acting Company and The Guthrie Theater. While the story remains the same, turn of the century Verona has been chosen as the backdrop, allowing the production to have a more contemporary sensibility. Elizabethan dress is traded in for tuxedos and fashionable Edwardian-era gowns. Romeo and Juliet is directed by Penny Metropulos, former associate artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. The star-crossed lovers are played by Sonny Valicenti (Romeo), who has performed as part of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and recently appeared on TNT's Raising the Bar and Laura Esposito (Juliet), a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. This is The Acting Company and The Guthrie Theater's second co-production and national tour.

Romeo and Juliet exquisitely embodies the brief joy of youthful passion and ecstasy. Timeless and deeply moving, they love each other passionately as only teenagers can while their families' mutual disdain and prejudice lead to revenge and an irreversible fate.

The Acting Company

The Acting Company promotes theater and literacy by bringing a touring repertory of classical productions, talented young actors and teaching artists into communities across America, particularly those where live performance and theater arts education is limited or non-existent. Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Jesse L. Martin, Frances Conroy, David Ogden Stiers, Keith David, Jeffrey Wright and Rainn Wilson are but a handful of actors whose careers have been developed by The Acting Company.

Honored by the Tony® Awards for Excellence in Theater, the company has won the Obie, Audelco, Citibank's Excellence in Education and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. Since its founding in 1972 by the legendary John Houseman and Margot Harley, The Acting Company has performed 133 productions touring to 48 states and ten foreign countries.

The Guthrie Theater

Founded by Sir Tyrone Guthrie in 1963, the Guthrie Theater is one of America's leading regional theaters and is widely recognized as an American center for theater performance, production and professional training. In addition to plays presented on the Guthrie's mainstage, the theater provides an additional season of new works by contemporary playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Edward Albee and Warren Leight at the Guthrie Lab.

Under the directorship of Joe Dowling, the Guthrie has built one of the finest multistage theater centers of our time including a classic thrust for grand scale classics, a proscenium for more intimate productions and a studio for developing new works.

 

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