Every day is opening night.

ADDITIONAL ACTORS JOIN THE ROTATING CAST FOR BARROW STREET THEATRICALS’ “NASSIM”

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REED BIRNEY, DAVID CROMER, CATHERINE CURTIN, ALISON FRASER, ALEXANDER GEMIGNANI, MARILU HENNER, CADY HUFFMAN, ISABEL KEATING, MICHAEL RIEDEL, GEOFF SOBELLE, FRANK WOOD AND MORE

 JOIN THE ROTATING CAST FOR
BARROW STREET THEATRICALS’
AMERICAN PREMIERE OF
“NASSIM”
BY NASSIM SOLEIMANPOUR

AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER, STAGE II

New York, NY (February 15, 2019) – Barrow Street Theatricals announced today the rotating cast of guest actors through the beginning of March for the American premiere of the Nassim Soleimanpour and Bush Theatre production of NASSIM by celebrated Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour (White Rabbit Red Rabbit), featuring direction by Omar Elerian. Joining the production will be:

Friday, February 15 at 7:30pm – Beth Malone
Tony Award nominee (Angels in America, Fun Home)

Saturday, February 16 at 2:30pm – Catherine Curtin
Two-time Screen Actors Guild Award winner (“Orange is the New Black, “Stranger Things”)

Saturday, February 16 at 7:30pm – Reed Birney
Tony Award winner (The Humans, Casa Valentina, 1984)

Sunday, February 17 at 2:30pm – David Cromer
Tony Award and four-time Obie Award winner (The Band’s Visit, Our Town, Tribes)

Sunday, February 17 at 7:30pm – Kate Buddeke
(Superior Donuts, Gypsy, Death of a Salesman, Carousel)

Tuesday, February 19 at 7:30pm – Michael Kostroff
(“The Deuce,” “The Wire,” “Luke Cage”)

Wednesday, February 20 at 2:30pm – Alison Fraser
Two-time Tony Award nominee (The Secret Garden, Romance/Romance)

Wednesday, February 20 at 7:30pm – Ronald Guttman
(AMC’s “Preacher”, BBC/Netflix’s  “Black Earth Rising”)

Thursday, February 21 at 7:30pm – Cady Huffman
Tony Award winner (The Producers, The Will Rogers Follies, Chicago)

Friday, February 22 at 7:30pm – Isabel Keating
Tony Award nominee (Wicked, The Boy from Oz, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark)

Saturday, February 23 at 2:30pm – TBA

Saturday, February 23 at 7:30pm – Alexander Gemignani
Tony and Grammy Award nominee (Carousel, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables)

Sunday, February 24 at 2:30pm – Michael Riedel
(New York Post columnist & WOR Radio host)

Tuesday, February 26 at 7:30pm – Frank Wood
Tony Award winner (Network, Clybourne Park, Side Man)

Wednesday, February 27 at 7:30pm – Marilu Henner
Five-time Golden Globe nominee (“Taxi,” Chicago, Gettin’ The Band Back Together)

Thursday, February 28 at 7:30pm – Geoff Sobelle
Obie Award winner (all wear bowlers, The Object Lesson)

Additional rotating guest actors will be announced shortly.

As previously announced, Barrow Street Theatricals, formerly Barrow Street Theatre, moves uptown to New York City Center, Stage II (131 West 55th Street) just for this production, which celebrated its official opening night on Wednesday, December 12, 2018.

No rehearsals. A different guest actor at every performance. A sealed envelope. And some surprises.

NASSIM was originally commissioned and produced by the Bush Theatre and received its world premiere at the Bush Theatre, London, July 25, 2017.

Nassim Soleimanpour’s first play, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, ran for more than nine months in New York, and was performed by Whoopi Goldberg, Bobby Cannavale, Nathan Lane, F. Murray Abraham, and other celebrated actors. It has been performed thousands of times in the United States and has been translated into more than 25 languages. NASSIM is his latest exploration into imaginative storytelling that also challenges traditional theatrical forms.

Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.NYCityCenter.org; on the phone by calling CityTix at 212-581-1212; or in person at New York City Center box office, open Monday-Saturday, noon-8pm, and Sunday, noon-7:30pm.

NASSIM is produced off-Broadway by Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian, and Tom Wirtshafter.

Barrow Street Theatricals was founded by Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter in 2003 at its home in New York’s historic Greenwich House, where they operated the 200-seat Barrow Street Theatre until September 2018. They have produced and presented numerous award-winning shows, including the Tooting Arts Club production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe (with Paines Plough); Tracy Letts’ BUG; Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, Tribes by Nina Raine (both directed by David Cromer); Josh Schmidt’s Adding Machine: a musical, and many more.

Praise for NASSIM

NASSIM is exhilarating fun, but also touching, moving and soulful. It’s very entertaining and funny. The play will be different every time, but it’s a gamble worth taking.”
The Hollywood Reporter

“★★★★ Poignant and sweet like a sugar cube in tea. Playwright Nassim Soleimanpour uses a savvy, theatrically indirect process in NASSIM. It’s a thrill to see.”
Time Out New York

“An unusually vivid celebration of theatre’s liveness, speaking the universal language of humanity. That makes it sound pat and sentimental. It’s not. This is a show that uses presence – technology and physical – and absence to clever effect. It explores the freedom and limitation of language, whether through censorship or the difficulties of speaking in one language and feeling in another. The act of staging this show is a striking demonstration of how words can keep us apart but also bring us together.”
The Guardian

“The story of human connection and hope embodied in the very form of Nassim Soleimanpour’s work, and – perhaps – now also embedded in the heart of everyone who sees this remarkable show.”
The Scotsman

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