The Illusion extends by one week

The Signature Theatre Company's production of Tony Kushner's The Illusion, directed by Michael Mayer, extends its run by one week and will now play through to 17 Jul 2011.

The Illusion opened at The Peter Norton Space on 5 Jun 2011, following previews from 17 May 2011, and was originally scheduled to close on10 Jul 2011.

The Illusion: A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave. There he engages the services of a wizard, who conjures up visions of the romantic, adventurous, perilous life the lawyer's son has been living since his father expelled him from home.

The cast features Peter Bartlett ('The Drowsy Chaperone,' "One Life to Live"), Sean Dugan ('Next Fall,' "Oz"), David Margulies ('Conversations With My Father,' 'Wonderful Town'), Amanda Quaid ('Equus,' 'Banished Children of Eve'), Lois Smith ('The Trip to Bountiful,' "True Blood"), Henry Stram ('Inherit the Wind,' 'See What I Wanna See'), Merritt Wever ("Nurse Jackie", 'Tiny Furniture') and Finn Wittrock ("All My Children", 'The Age of Iron.')

The creative team for The Illusion features scenic design by Christine Jones, costume design by Susan Hilferty, lighting design by Kevin Adams and sound design by Bray Poor.

Signature Theatre Company's 20th Anniversary season also featured the first New York revival of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning epic work, Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia On National Themes, directed by Michael Greif, which extended four times and won the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival, and the New York premiere of The Intelligent Homosexual'S Guide To Capitalism And Socialism With A Key To The Scriptures, also directed by Michael Greif and co-produced with The Public Theater in association with The Guthrie Theater, which opened on 5 May 2011 and is currently in performance at The Public Theater.