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'Facing East' gets dates in N.Y., S.F.

Published: Friday, Dec. 8, 2006 3:24 p.m. MST
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Carol Lynn Pearson's "Facing East" is heading east ... and west.

Jerry Rapier, who directed Plan-B Theatre Company's recent world premiere of the drama in the Rose Wagner Center, has lined up an off Broadway venue and a San Francisco theater for engagements next summer.

Rapier said that details on ticketing and play dates have yet to be worked out, but "Facing East" is scheduled to play in the 99-seat Atlantic Stage 2 in New York City for a month-long run during May and June, followed by an engagement during August in Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco.

He emphasized that these will not be co-productions with other theater companies. Plan-B Theatre Company is renting the space for its own productions.

Rapier, who is artistic director for Plan-B, is hopeful that the play's original cast — Charles Lynn Frost, Jayne Luke and Jay Perry — will be available for the newly scheduled runs, but casting is not firm at this point. He added that ticket information should be on Plan-B's web site early in January (planbtheatrecompany.org).

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Atlantic Stage 2, located in the Chelsie area of Manhattan, was inaugurated in June of this year by four-time Tony Award-winning Atlantic Theater Company, which has a slightly larger Mainstage space about five blocks north.

Theatre Rhinoceros is located at 2926 16th St., just off South Van Ness, in San Francisco.

Rapier said the production, which deals with one LDS couple's grief over the suicide of their gay son, will be rehearsed in Salt Lake City for a couple of weeks prior to the New York City engagement.

The local premiere, which ran from Nov. 16-26, was nearly sold out by the time the show closed in the Rose Wagner Center's Black Box Theatre.


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