The 39 Steps ends its 3 year run

Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps concludes its three year run in New York when the award winning comedy concludes its Off-Broadway run on 16 Jan 2011, playing its final performance at New World Stage.

The production will have played 23 previews and 318 performances Off-Broadway and over 1,100 total performances in New York City.

The 39 Steps received its American premiere in Sep 2007 at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. The Broadway premiere began previews 4 Jan 2008, officially opening on 15 Jan at Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre. The show moved to the Cort Theatre on 29 Apr 2008 and then to the Helen Hayes Theatre on 21 Jan 2009. In total on Broadway, the show played for over two years and 771 performances, the longest run of any Broadway play in seven years.

On 10 Jan 2010 The 39 Steps ended its Broadway engagement and moved to Off-Broadway's New World Stages where it has been playing since 25 Mar 2010.

The 39 Steps is currently playing in London and a successful year-long US national tour concluded in June 2010.

Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, adapted by Patrick Barlow and directed by Maria Aitken, is based on an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon and on the book by John Buchan.

The 39 Steps: Seeking a frivolous night out at the theatre, Richard Hannay is lured into a world of intrigue by a mysterious woman claiming to be a spy. When she winds up dead in his flat, he flees London with the police hot on his trail. The 'unstageable' thriller is staged, with four cast members playing a minimum of 150 roles.

The show features a cast of four actors who, against all odds, reenact all of the characters, locations and famous scenes in Hitchcock's 1935 film thriller with just a few props and a lot of theatrical ingenuity and split second quick changes.

The Broadway premiere opened to mostly excellent reviews: "Entertaining comedy" (New York Theatre Guide); "Throwaway theater at its finest. And that's no backhanded compliment."; (NY Times); "Pushed Hitchcock's brilliance into some riotous realm of satire, without losing its essentially Hitchcockian flavor" (NY Post); "A jaunty homage to Hitchcock, "The 39 Steps" is whirlwind funny business." (Star-Ledger); "An utterly pointless but physically and conceptually ingenious spoof " (NewsDay); "See the movie. And forget the show." (Journal News); "An entertaining diversion"; (Variety).

Read Tulis McCall's review of the Off-Broadway transfer of the comedy.

The cast features John Behlmann as 'Richard Hannay,' Cameron Folmar as 'Man #2,' Jamie Jackson as 'Man #1' and Kate MacCluggage as 'Annabella Schmidt/Pamela/Margaret.' The production also features Greg Jackson and Elizabeth Davis.

Set and costume design is by Peter McKintosh, lighting design is by Kevin Adams and sound design is by Mic Pool. Original movement was created by Toby Sedgwick. Additional movement is created by Christopher Bayes. Production stage manager is Matthew Shriner.