Ruined: Lynn Nottage�s Pulitzer Prize winning play, announces 6 week extension

Manhattan Theatre Club have announced a six week extension of Ruined, Lynn Nottage�s Pulitzer Prize winning play featuring direction by Kate Whoriskey. The production will now run through to 28 Jun 2009. This marks the sixth extension of the Manhattan Theatre Club and Goodman Theatre co-production.

Ruined, directed by Kate Whoriskey, opened at NY City Center Stage I on 10 Feb 2009, following previews from 21 Jan, and was originally scheduled to close on 29 Mar 2009.

Ruined opened to excellent reviews: "stirring and sometimes startling new work" (NY Daily News); "Beautiful, hideous and unpretentiously important" (NewsDay); "powerful new drama" (AP); "emotionally scorching new play" (Variety) and "a crackling thriller with humor, plot twists and lots of humanity.� (NY1)

Ruined: Set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo, the play follows Mama Nadi (Lenox), a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?

Ruined is a co-production with Chicago�s Goodman Theatre where it opened to rave reviews for Nottage�s play, the ensemble cast, and director Kate Whoriskey.

Saidah Arrika Ekulona plays the leading role of 'Mama Nadi.' She made her Broadeay debut in Lisa Kron's 'Well' (Kay: 2006). Her off-Broadway credits include 'Unconditional,' 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Well' for the Public Theater, as well as 'Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine' (playwright Horizons) and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (New York Theatre Workshop).

Ruined also features Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Cherise Boothe, Chris Chalk, William Jackson Harper, Chik� Johnson, Russell Gebert Jones, Simon Shabantu Kashama, Kevin Mambo, Tom Mardirosian, Ron McBee and Condola Rashad.

The creative team for Ruined includes: Derek McLane (sets), Paul Tazewell (costumes) and Peter Kaczorowski (lighting).