(AGENPARL) – lun 18 settembre 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, September 18, 2023
“A powerfully affecting drama about love and loyalty,
and loss and betrayal, too.”
Charles Isherwood, The Wall Street Journal
“Perhaps the first of the great American plays of this decade.”
Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
“Thrillingly staged.”
Jesse Green, The New York Times
“A thoughtful, undeniably riveting American drama.”
Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
Audible Theater’s New York Premiere
of the Goodman Theatre Production of
Swing State
Opens to Rave Reviews,
Extends for One Week Only
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Performances End
Saturday, October 28
at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre
Production Will Also Be Released Globally As An Audible Original
NEWARK, NJ and NEW YORK, NY – September 18, 2023 – Audible Theater’s New York premiere of the acclaimed Goodman Theatre production of Swing State, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rebecca Gilman (The Glory of Living, Spinning Into Butter, Boy Gets Girl) and directed by Tony Award winner Robert Falls (Death of a Salesman), opened last night to rave reviews. The production has been extended for one week only, through Saturday, October 28, at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane, between MacDougal & 6th Avenue – one block south of W. 3^rd Street), Audible’s creative home for live performances in New York. Swing State will also be recorded and released on Audible at a later date, extending its reach to millions of listeners around the world.
Photos from opening night are now available:
The original Chicago cast of powerhouses – Mary Beth Fisher (Peg), Kirsten Fitzgerald (Sheriff Kris), Anne E. Thompson (Dani) and Bubba Weiler (Ryan) – reprise their roles in Gilman’s contemporary portrait of America’s heartland in a time when it feels like everyone’s way of life is in danger of disappearing.
Swing State opened at the Goodman Theatre in the Fall of 2022 and marked Rebecca Gilman’s sixth play with Robert Falls; their collaboration spans more than 35 years. Swing State was recently nominated for four 2023 Equity Jeff Awards: Best Production – Play; Best New Work (Rebecca Gilman); Best Director – Play – Large (Robert Falls); and Best Performer in a Principal Role – Play (Mary Beth Fisher).
ABOUT SWING STATE
Evenings on the prairie are relatively quiet for Peg, a recently widowed woman in rural Wisconsin who still cooks for two. Which doesn’t go to waste whenever Ryan, a dear friend with a troubled past, pays her a visit. However, after noticing her husband’s toolbox is missing, she places a call to the local authorities—unwittingly setting off a series of events that will forever reverberate through the small community. In a divided country where the lines separating family, friend, and foe have been further blurred in the wake of a global pandemic, Tony Award® winner Robert Falls and Pulitzer Prize finalist Rebecca Gilman masterfully unweave a complex, humanistic yarn the Chicago Sun-Times calls “an engrossing work of intense melancholy, filled with sympathy for its characters, and for the country.”
The creative team of Swing State includes Todd Rosenthal (scenic design), Evelyn M. Danner (costume design), Eric Southern (lighting design), Richard Woodbury (original music and sound design), Nick Sandys (fight and intimacy director), Alice Maguire (properties), Patrick Fries (production stage manager), and Lauren Port CSA & Rachael Jimenez CSA (casting). Technical supervision is by Hudson Theatrical Associates’ Sean Gorski with general management by Baseline Theatrical’s Jonathan Whitton.
Understudies include Jessica Ervin (u/s Dani), Laura T. Fisher (u/s Peg), Jack Lancaster (u/s Ryan), and Erika Rolfsrud (u/s Sheriff Kris).
TICKETING INFORMATION
Audible Theater is proud to collaborate with TodayTix to offer $25 mobile rush tickets for all three shows beginning at 9am each performance day. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis exclusively through the TodayTix app.
Masks are encouraged but not required for patrons at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
ABOUT AUDIBLE THEATER
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
ABOUT THE GOODMAN THEATRE
Chicago’s theater since 1925, Goodman Theatre (Artistic Director Susan V. Booth and Executive Director/CEO Roche Schulfer) is a not-for-profit arts and community organization in the heart of the downtown theater district, distinguished by artistic excellence and civic engagement. The theater’s artistic priorities include new play development, large-scale musical theater works and reimagined classics. Artists and productions have earned two Pulitzer Prizes, 22 Tony Awards and more than 160 Jeff Awards, among other accolades. The Goodman is the first theater in the world to produce all 10 plays in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle. The 2022 world premiere of Swing State, principally supported by The Roy Cockrum Foundation, marked the 10^th production of a play by Pulitzer Prize nominee Rebecca Gilman at Goodman Theatre, where previous works include Twilight Bowl (2019); Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976 (2016); Luna Gale (2014); A True History of the Johnstown Flood (2010); The Crowd You’re in With (2009); Dollhouse (2005); Blue Surge (2001); Boy Gets Girl (2000); and Spinning Into Butter (1999). Jeff Hesse is Chairman of Goodman Theatre’s Board of Trustees, Fran Del Boca is Women’s Board President and Craig McCaw is President of the Scenemakers Board for young professionals.
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