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FINAL ROTATING CAST ANNOUNCED FOR BARROW STREET THEATRICALS’ AMERICAN PREMIERE OF “NASSIM” BY NASSIM SOLEIMANPOUR

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

AT NEW YORK CITY CENTER, STAGE II

FINAL PERFORMANCE SATURDAY, APRIL 20

New York, NY (April 4, 2019) – Barrow Street Theatricals announced today the final rotating cast of guest actors for the American premiere of the Nassim Soleimanpour and Bush Theatre production of NASSIM. Written by celebrated Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour (White Rabbit Red Rabbit) and featuring direction by Omar Elerian, NASSIM will play its final performance on Saturday, April 20, after 7 preview and 148 regular performances. Completing the production will be:

Thursday, April 4 at 7:30pm – Phillipa Soo
Tony Award Nominee & Grammy Award Winner (Hamilton, “The Code,” The Parisian Woman)

Friday, April 5 at 7:30pm – Emma Ishta
Teen Choice Award nominee (“Stitchers,” “Manhattan Love Story)

Saturday, April 6 at 2:30pm – Andrew Roffe
(Prison Logic, Think Like a Man, The Second City Chicago)

Saturday, April 6 at 7:30pm – Peter Jacobson
Two-time Screen Actors Guild Award Nominee (“House M.D.,” Good Night, and Good Luck, “Colony,” “The Americans”)

Sunday, April 7 at 2:30pm – Allyn Burrows
Shakespeare & Company Artistic Director (Bug, Killer Joe, Manchester by the Sea, Company Men)

Sunday, April 7 at 7:30pm – Greg Kotis
Two-time Tony Award & Obie Award Winner (Urinetown, Pig Farm, Yeast Nation)

Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30pm – John Rothman
Emmy Award Winner (“Birdland,” “One Mississippi,” “Separate But Equal,” United 93)

Wednesday, April 10 at 7:30pm – Will Eno
Pulitzer Prize Finalist & Obie Award Winner (Thom Pain (based on nothing), The Realistic Joneses, The Open House)

Thursday, April 11 at 7:30pm – Todd Almond
Lucille Lortel Nominee (Girl From the North Country, Iowa, On the Levee)

Friday, April 12 at 7:30pm – Noah Galvin
Lucille Lortel Nominee (Dear Evan Hansen, Alice By Heart, “The Real O’Neals”)

Saturday, April 13 at 2:30pm – Steven Boyer
Tony Award Nominee & Obie Award Winner (Hand to God, Time and the Conways, “Trial and Error”)

Saturday, April 13 at 7:30pm – Sally Murphy
NY Drama Critics’ Circle Citation Recipient (August: Osage County, The Apple Family Plays, The Threepenny Opera)

Sunday, April 14 at 2:30pm – Michael Patrick Thornton
Joseph Jefferson Award Winner (“Private Practice,” “The Red Line”)

Sunday, April 14 at 7:30pm – Ashley Park
Tony & Grammy Award Nominee & Lortel Award Winner (Mean Girls, Sunday In The Park With George, KPOP)

Tuesday, April 16 at 7:30pm – Jeremy Shamos
Tony Award Nominee and Obie & Lortel Award Winner (Clybourne Park, Meteor Shower, Dinner with Friends)

Wednesday, April 17 at 2:30pm – Bernard White
(“Quarantine,” “Silicon Valley,” “Kidding”)

Wednesday, April 17 at 7:30pm – Lee Pace
Drama Desk & Obie Award Winner (Angels in America, The Normal Heart, The Hobbit, “Pushing Daisies,” “Halt and Catch Fire”)

Thursday, April 18 at 7:30pm – Sarah Goldberg
Screen Actors Guild & Olivier Award Nominee (“Barry,” “Hindsight,” Clybourne Park)

Friday, April 19 at 7:30pm – Michael Stahl-David
(Cloverfield, “The Black Donnellys,” “Narcos,” “The Deuce”)

Saturday, April 20 at 2:30pm – Mark Hattan
(Our Town, “Blue Bloods,” “The Affair”)

Saturday, April 20 at 7:30pm – Carla Gugino
Screen Actors Guild Award Nominee (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “Entourage,” Watchmen, “Wayward Pines,” Desire Under the Elms)

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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