August 9-25: Victor Lirio stars with an all-star cast in psycho-drama Two Rooms in New York

New York City

August 9 - August 25, 2012 The Lion Theatre 410 West 42nd Street, New York

Victor Lirio (Resurrection, The Female Heart) and an all-star cast are on stage in Manhattan this week with the war-based psycho drama Two Rooms. 

Named Best Play of the Year by Time Magazine when it debuted in 1988, Two Rooms is about Michael (Connor), an American professor who is held hostage in a dark room in Beirut. His wife, Lainie (Warner), holds a vigil for him in an empty room in their home outside of DC. As events in the Middle East begin to spin out of control, the possibility of bringing Michael safely back home becomes more tenuous.

Victor Lirio is joined by fellow actors Curran Connor (Julius by Design, 39 Steps), Dawn Evans (The Ladies of the Corridor, The Sopranos), and Bree Michael Warner (Balm in Gilead, Six Feet Under) in the lead role of Lainie, are set for Diverse City Theater Company’s (“DCT”) production of Two Rooms, by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominee Lee Blessing, directed by Jamie Richards. Two Rooms has a preview performance on Wednesday, August 8 at 8pm, and opens for a limited run on Thursday, August 9th at 8PM at Theatre Row’s The Lion Theatre located at 410 West 42nd Street in New York City. Performances run through Saturday, August 25th. Tickets are $19.25 and can be purchased on Telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200.

Lee Blessing is an American playwright best known for his play, A Walk in the Woods, produced on Broadway and the West End, for which he earned a Pulitzer Prize as well as a Tony Award nomination. 

Jamie Richards directed the critically acclaimed production of Linda Faigao-Hall’s The Female Heart for DCT in 2005, and again in 2007 for the 1st National Asian American Theater Festival. She has directed Stonewall Jackson’s House (American Place Theater), Light Years (Playwright’s Horizons), Klonsky and Schwartz, The Secret Order, District of Columbia,Flight, Heaven Knows, and Hell’s Kitchen Sink (EST). 

ABOUT DIVERSE CITY THEATER COMPANY:
Formed in 2003, DIVERSE CITY THEATER COMPANY (“DCT”) develops and produces powerful and thought-provoking works that examine our society’s diversity issues from social, cultural, and global perspectives. DCT advocates the non-traditional casting of actors to reflect the rich spectrum of our national culture and the universality of the human spirit. For its 2009 season, DCT presented the New York Times-acclaimed world premiere of Warren Bodow’s Race Music. DCT is the recipient of Princess Grace Foundation USA award and two nominations for Actors’ Equity Association’s The Rosetta Lenoire Award (2008, 2009) for “outstanding contributions made to the universality of the human spirit in the American theatre.” Now in its eighth season, DCT is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(3) theater organization. For more information about DCT, visit www.diversecitytheater.org.

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