The Twenty-Seventh Man extends by one week

The Public Theater's production of The Twenty-Seventh Man, written by Nathan Englander and directed by Barry Edelstein, extends its run by one week and will now play through to 16 Dec 2012.

The Twenty-Seventh Man opened at the Public Theater's Martinson Hall on 18 Nov 2012, following previews from 07 Nov 2012, and was orignally scheduled to close on 09 Dec 2012.

The play opened to mixed reiews: "The story will stay with you" (newyorktheatreguide); "A dreary stasis slowly envelops" (NY Times); "Piercing and memorable" (Back Stage); "Compelling" (Record); "seems to belong on the page rather than the stage" (Variety).

A Soviet prison, 1952. Stalin's secret police have rounded up 26 writers, the giants of Yiddish literature in Russia. As judgment looms, a twenty-seventh suddenly appears: Pinchas Pelovits, unpublished and unknown. Baffled by his arrest, he and his cellmates wrestle with the mysteries of party loyalty and politics, culture and identity, and with what it means to write in troubled times. When they discover why The Twenty-Seventh Man is among them, the writers come to realize that even in the face of tyranny, stories still have the power to transcend. .

The cast features Chip Zien (Vasily Kornisky), Noah Robbins (Pinchas Pelvotis), Byron Jennings (The Agent in Charge), Happy Anderson (Guard), Daniel Oreskes (Moishe Bretzky) and Ron Rifkin (Yevgeny Zunser).

The creative team features sets by Michael McGarty, costumes by Katherine Roth, lighting by Russell H. Champa and sound by Darron L West.