Our Town at the Barrow Street Theatre

Jean Doumanian Productions and Barrow Street Theatre will produce director David Cromer�s acclaimed staging of Thornton Wilder�s Our Town, opening at Off Broadway�s Barrow Street Theatre on 26 Feb 2009, following previews from 17 Feb and running through to 12 Apr 2009.

The production played at chicago' Chopin Theatre from 20 Sep - 26 Oct 2008.

This production marks the official debut collaboration between Jean Doumanian Productions and Barrow Street Theatre who recently announced a creative partnership to bring innovative works and artists to Off Broadway, and will take place during the 70th anniversary year of Our Town Broadway premiere (Pulitzer Prize, 1938).

Cromer, who directed last season�s hit musical, 'Adding Machine,' and who next season will make his Broadway directing debut with Neil Simon�s 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Broadway Bound,' will himself perform the central role of �Stage Manager� in this staging of Wilder�s play in which the action takes place in, among and around the audience, creating an intimacy between actors and audience and a powerful encounter with the play�s searching questions about family, community and mortality.

In a statement, film and theatre producer Doumanian said, �This production of Our Town is an intimate, original staging of what is arguably America�s most popular play and we are thrilled to bring it to New York. David Cromer has given us a timely rendering of a classic work that will continue to speak to new audiences.� She added, �I am particularly delighted to launch my company�s collaboration with Barrow Street Theatre � one that Scott (Morfee), Tom (Wirtshafter) and I know will help make possible a whole new wave of exciting work for Off Broadway.�

David Cromer�s production of the Joshua Schmidt/Jason Loewith musical Adding Machine (Minetta Lane Theatre), also produced by Barrow Street Theatre�s Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter, earned him unanimous critical acclaim and OBIE and Lucille Lortel awards as Best Director. Adding Machine received four OBIE Awards and Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel awards as Best Musical.

One of Chicago�s most respected and prolific theater artists, Mr. Cromer most recently staged praised productions of William Inge�s Picnic at Writers� Theatre, and the premiere of Celebrity Row by Itmar Moses at American Theater Company, in addition to Our Town, which he directed for Hypocrites Theater Company.

Our Town will feature set design and props by Michele Spadaro, and lighting design by Heather Gilbert.

Jean Doumanian Productions is currently a lead producer on the Broadway production of Tracy Letts� Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning 'August: Osage County,' for which the company is also producing the feature film adaptation.

The company�s previous Broadway credits include Tom Stoppard�s 'Jumpers,' Michael Frayn�s 'Democracy,' 'Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune,' and 'Amour'; and Off-Broadway credits include 'The Great America Trailer Park Musical,' 'Fuddy Meers,' 'Bat Boy the Musical,' 'Things You Shouldn't Say Past Midnight,' 'Dinah Was,' and 'Death Defying Acts.'

Scott Morfee and Tom Wirtshafter have been producing together since 2001, and operating Barrow Street Theater since 2003. Their collaborations have included award-winning productions of 'Bug' by Tracy Letts, 'Orson�s Shadow' by Austin Pendleton, Nilaja Sun�s 'No Child,' The Civilians� 'Gone Missing,' and the musical 'Adding Machine' by Joshua Schmidt/Jason Loewith.