1st Stage Extends OLD WICKED SONGS Through 5/17

1st Stage, Tysons Corner's award winning professional theater, announces the extension of Old Wicked Songs by playwright Jon Marans. Michael Chamberlin directs the production at 1st Stage.

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1996 and winner of the L.A. Drama Logue Award, Old Wicked Songs has played to massive acclaim for audiences in Europe and across the United States. 1st Stage brings this highly celebrated production to Tysons Corner for the first time. Set in Austria in the mid-1980s, Old Wicked Songs explores passion, music, forgiveness, and renewal through the eyes of generationally divided Professor Mashkan and his new American student, Stephen Hoffman. One rigidly uptight and handicapped by anxiety, the other, eccentric, volatile, and mysterious, these characters catalyze within each other exceptional highs and devastating lows that will leave them both changed forever. Music, humor, and history weave intricately though this story, revealing truths that lead the characters and their audience on a tightly winding path until the very end. Live piano music fills the space contributing an additional element of talent and tension to the atmosphere.

The 1st Stage production of Old Wicked Songs features Philip Hosford as Professor Josef Mashkan and Aaron Bliden as American piano prodigy, Stephen Hoffman under the direction of Michael Chamberlin.

The design team includes: scenic and costume design by Kathryn Kawecki, lighting design by Brian Allard, sound design by Kenny Neal, prop design by Deb Crerie and Kay Rzasa, and musical direction by Walter "Bobby" McCoy. The production is stage managed by Hannah Martin.

1st Stage productions received 2 Helen Hayes Awards this year. Doug Wilder took home The Robert Prosky Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play for his role in One Man, Two Guvnors, and Steven Royal received the Outstanding Director of a Musical Award for his direction of Bat Boy: The Musical.

Old Wicked Songs will run at 1st Stage through May 17 with show times as follows: Fridays at 8 pm, Saturdays at 2 pm and 8 pm, and Sundays at 2pm and 7pm. General admission tickets are $28. Senior (65+) tickets are $23. Student and military tickets are $15. Group discounts are available. Tickets can be purchased online at www.1ststagetysons.org or by calling the 1st Stage box office at 703-854-1856.

The run time is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes including one 15- minute intermission.

Old Wicked Songs is the fourth of five productions in 1st Stage's seventh season. Following Old Wicked Songs by Jon Marans, directed by Michael Chamberlin will be The Good Counselor by Kathryn Grant and directed by 1st Stage Artistic Director, Alex Levy (June 6 - June 29).

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