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Rehearsals for the classic Eugene Ionesco comedy EXIT THE KING starring Academy? Award-winners Geoffrey Rush (Shine) and Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Lauren Ambrose (Awake and Sing!, 'Six Feet Under'),Tony? Award- winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year, Young Frankenstein) and William Sadler ('Roswell,' Julius Caesar) will begin on Monday, February 2.

Rehearsals for the classic Eugene Ionesco comedy EXIT THE KING starring Academy? Award-winners Geoffrey Rush (Shine) and Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking), Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Lauren Ambrose (Awake and Sing!, 'Six Feet Under'),Tony? Award- winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year, Young Frankenstein) and William Sadler ('Roswell,' Julius Caesar) will begin on Monday, February 2.

Tickets go on sale this Sunday, January 25 for the upcoming Broadway production of Eugene Ionesco's classic comedy EXIT THE KING starring Academy Award-winners Geoffrey Rush (Shine) and Susan Sarandon (Dead Men Walking), and Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Lauren Ambrose (Awake and Sing!, 'Six Feet Under') and Tony? Award- winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year, Young Frankenstein). With a new translation by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush and directed by Neil Armfield, EXIT THE KING will begin performances Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) and open on Thursday, March 26, 2009. This limited engagement will run for 14 weeks only, through Sunday, June 14, 2009. EXIT THE KING is a hilarious and poignant comedy about a megalomaniacal ruler, King Berenger (Rush) whose incompetence has left his country in near ruin. Despite the efforts of Queen Marguerite (Sarandon) and the other members of the court to convince the King he has only 90 minutes left to live, he refuses to relinquish any control.

Tickets go on sale this Sunday, January 25 for the upcoming Broadway production of Eugene Ionesco's classic comedy EXIT THE KING starring Academy Award-winners Geoffrey Rush (Shine) and Susan Sarandon (Dead Men Walking), and Screen Actors Guild Award-winner Lauren Ambrose (Awake and Sing!, 'Six Feet Under') and Tony? Award- winner Andrea Martin (My Favorite Year, Young Frankenstein). With a new translation by Neil Armfield and Geoffrey Rush and directed by Neil Armfield, EXIT THE KING will begin performances Saturday, March 7, 2009 at the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) and open on Thursday, March 26, 2009. This limited engagement will run for 14 weeks only, through Sunday, June 14, 2009. EXIT THE KING is a hilarious and poignant comedy about a megalomaniacal ruler, King Berenger (Rush) whose incompetence has left his country in near ruin. Despite the efforts of Queen Marguerite (Sarandon) and the other members of the court to convince the King he has only 90 minutes left to live, he refuses to relinquish any control.