Wit extends run by one week through to 17 Mar 2012

Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway premiere of Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, directed by Lynne Meadow and starring Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon, has extended its run by one week and will now play through to 17 Mar 2012.

Wit opened at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on 26 Jan 2012, following previews from 5 Jan, and was originally scheduled to close on 11 Mar 2012.

The play opened on Broadway to excellent reviews: Confluence of excellence (newyorktheatreguide); Inescapably moving (NY Times); Brilliant, funny, shattering (Record); An uncommonly stirring piece of theater (Hollywood Reporter).

Starring alongside Cynthia Nixon as 'Vivian Bearing' are Pun Bandhu (Technician), Olivier Award winner Suzanne Bertish (E.M. Ashford), Michael Countryman (Harvey Kelekian/Mr. Bearing), Jessica Dickey (Technician), Chiké Johnson (Technician), Greg Keller (Jason Posner), Carra Patterson (Susie Monahan) and Zachary Spicer (Technician).

Wit follows a brilliant and exacting poetry professor (Nixon) as she undergoes experimental treatment for cancer. A scholar who devoted her life to academia, she must now face the irony and injustice of becoming the subject of research.

The creative team for Wit includes: Santo Loquasto (scenic design), Jennifer von Mayrhauser (costume design), Peter Kaczorowski (lighting design), and Jill BC Du Boff (sound design).

Wit had its New York premiere in 1998 playing Off-Broadway for over 500 performances from 6 Oct 1998 - 9 Apr 2000. The show garnered the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was named Best Play by the New York Drama Critic Circle, the Drama Desk Awards, the Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Drama League, and the Lucille Lortel Awards.