OFF BROADWAY'S ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

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The Red Fern Theatre Company presents
“All Through The Night”
A new play by Shirley Lauro
New York Premiere Opens Monday, October 5th
Off Broadway * The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater
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Andrea Sooch With Theo Allyn and Michelle Lookadoo

Lesley McBurney With Hana Kalinski, Theo Allyn,
Andrea Sooch And Michelle Lookadoo

Having received its world premier production in Chicago where it received a Jefferson Award Nomination for “Best New Play in Chicago,” Shirley Lauro’s “All Through The Night” will open its limited New York engagement Monday, October 5th (8PM) at Off Broadway’s Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater (5 West 64th Street at Central Park West). The production will begin previews on October 2nd and run through October 25th. Directed by Melanie Moyer Williams, the play is produced by The Red Fern Theatre Company---a company which has made its mark not only producing socially conscious work—but partnering with philanthropies whose mission seeks to assist those affected by the issues addressed in each new project. Red Fern is proud to announce Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to generating change through education, will be the philanthropy partner for All Through The Night. Inspired by interviews with German Gentile women, and set during and after the Third Reich, All Through The Night speaks directly with a warning for today. Both stylistic and surrealistic, the play sweeps through the lives of four women---their teen years, young adulthood during the Holocaust and then beyond. Making overwhelmingly hard choices, they survive or succumb to Hitler's Reign and are changed forever.All Through The Night will feature Theo Allyn, Hana Kalinski, Michelle Lookadoo, Lesley McBurney and Andrea Sooch in the five-member company. The production will also feature scenery designed by Adrienne Kapalko, costumes designed by Emily DeAngelis and lighting designed by Jessica Greenberg. Award-winning playwright Shirley Lauro’s most recent credits include her anthology, “Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women,” co-edited with Alexis Greene, (New Press, 2009) and being chosen a “2009 Honoree of The Coalition of Professional Women in Arts and Media”. Her latest play, The Radiant, won a 2008 Sloan Science Commission and enjoyed its first staged reading, June 2009, at The Actors Studio. A Piece of My Heart premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club and was revived in New York by the Red Fern Theater Company in 2008, Melanie Moyer Williams, directing. With over 1000 other productions around the world, the play was recently designated by VW Veterans, Inc.: “The most enduring American play on Vietnam”. Her play Clarence Darrow’s Last Trial received a “2006 Carbonell Nominee as ‘Best New Florida Play’”, and an “NEA Access To Excellence Award.” On Broadway, Ms. Lauro’s Open Admissions received 1 Tony nomination, 2 Drama Desk nominations, and a Theatre World Award and she later adapted it for critically acclaimed CBS special starring Jane Alexander and Estelle Parsons. A Guggenheim Fellow, Ms.Lauro is a three-time NEA and a New York Foundation for the Arts winner. The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. SWC confronts important contemporary issues including racism, antisemitism, terrorism and genocide. The New York Tolerance Center, the educational arm of the SWC’s eastern office, is a professional development and educational center that focuses on the dynamics of racism, prejudice and international human rights while exploring diversity, tolerance and democracy. SWC is accredited as a non-governmental organization at the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, Council of Europe and Latin American Parliament. With a membership of over 400,000 families and 250,000 e-members, SWC is headquartered in Los Angeles and maintains offices in New York, Toronto, Miami, Jerusalem, Paris and Buenos Aires. All Through The Night will play performances through October 25th as per the following schedule: Wednesday through Saturday evenings at 8PM with Sunday Matinees at 3PM. Tickets are $25. For more information and ticket purchase log onto: www.theatermania.com or phone 212-352-3101. To learn more about The Red Fern Theatre Company log onto: www.redferntheatre.org
Photos By: Nathan Johnson