NEWS FROM SCARCITY

ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY

“SCARCITY” STAR

KRISTEN JOHNSTON

ON “CW 11 MORNING NEWS”

TOMORROW, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th

Emmy Award® winner Kristen Johnston, now starring in Atlantic Theater Company’s world premiere production of Lucy Thurber’s play Scarcity, will sit down live with CW 11 Morning News anchor Jill Nicolini tomorrow morning Friday, September 14th in the 8:30 a.m. half hour.

“CW 11 Morning News” airs daily from 7:00 – 9:00 a.m. on WPIX Television, Channel 11 in the New York Metropolitan area and New Jersey.

Two time Emmy Award® winner and Atlantic Company Member Kristen Johnston is best known to television audiences as ‘Sally Soloman’ on the hit NBC series “3rd Rock from the Sun” for all six seasons. She returns to Atlantic, where she has also appeared in The Lights (Drama Desk Award® nomination), Rosemary for Remembrance and Five Very Live. She has appeared on the Broadway stage in The Women (Roundabout) and also in Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing and The Skin of Our Teeth for the Public Theater’s New York Shakespeare Festival.

Atlantic Theater Company’s world premiere production of Lucy Thurber’s play SCARCITY, directed by Jackson Gay (The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow) began previews August 29th and officially opens Thursday, September 20th. The limited engagement plays through Sunday, October 14th Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company at the Linda Gross Theater (336 West 20th Street).

SCARCITY also stars Atlantic Company members Maggie Kiley (Atlantic’s The Lesson, Frame 312) and Todd Weeks (Atlantic’s The Voysey Inheritance, Broadway’s Full Monty) and guest artists Meredith Brandt, Jesse Eisenberg (The Hunting Party, The Squid and the Whale), Miriam Shor (stage and film's Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Michael T. Weiss (NBC’s “The Pretender,” the feature film Jeffrey).

Set in rural western Massachusetts, SCARCITY tells the tale of two siblings whose aspirations to escape the confines of poverty and small town life come into direct conflict with their sense of family responsibility. When sixteen-year-old Billy is afforded an opportunity to change schools and move out of town by an unusually attentive young teacher, his family starts to unravel around him. In this raw, emotionally rich world premiere new drama from playwright Lucy Thurber explores the stark reality of how class in America shapes our very image of ourselves.

SCARCITY plays Tuesday through Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm and Sundays at 3:00 p.m.

ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY MAIN STAGE AT THE LINDA GROSS THEATER is located at 336 West 20th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues). Tickets for main stage productions are $55.00 and available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 (ticketcentral.com).

www.atlantictheater.org

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