Peter and the Starcatcher closing 12 Jan 2014

The Off-Broadway return engagement of Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher will play it final performance at New World Stages / Stage 1 on 12 Jan 2014. When the show closes it will have played a combined 645 performances on and off-Broadway.

Originally developed by Disney Theatrical Productions in 2003, Peter and the Starcatcher received its first lab at Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2007, under the direction of Roger Rees and Alex Timbers. A full length version of the play was then written by Elice, further developed by Disney Theatricals in a Page to Stage production at La Jolla Playhouse in the winter of 2009.

Following revisions, the play received its first fully staged production in March 2011 at Off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop where it played from 9 Mar 2011 - 24 Apr 2011. Following it's Off-Broadway run, the show premiered on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre where it played from 28 Mar 2012 - 20 Jan 2013. The production won five Tony Awards (the most of any play of the 2011-2012 season).

The Broadway premiere opened to mostly excellent reviews: Inventive, touching and mostly hilarious (newyorktheatreguide); Ecstatic production (NY Times); Beaming with dizzy humor and delightful stage magic (NY Daily News); Clever and joyous entertainment (Back Stage); Flies high (NY1).

In Peter and the Starcatcher, witten by Tony Award nominee Rick Elice, and directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees and Tony Award-nominee Alex Timbers, a company of twelve actors plays some 50 characters - all on a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?

The cast stars Rick Holmes (Black Stache), Nicole Lowrance (Molly), Jason Ralph (Boy), Kevin Del Aguila (Smee), Edward Baker-Duly (Lord Aster), Matt D'Amico (Slank), Evan Harrington (Alf), Josh Grisetti (Fighting Prawn), Alex Hernandez (Captain Scott), Nate Miller (Ted), Andrew Mueller (Prentiss), Jon Patrick Walker (Mrs. Bumbrake), Jordan Geiger, Joanna Howard, José Restrepo and Graham Stevens.

The design team includes Wayne Barker (Music), Steven Hoggett (Movement), Marco Paguia (Music Supervision), Donyale Werle (Scenic Design), Paloma Young (Costume Design), Jeff Croiter (Lighting Design) and Darron L West (Sound Design). Peter and the Starcatcher is produced by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes and Disney Theatrical Productions.