| STILL starring MELISSA GILBERT & MARK MOSES, returns Off-Broadway starting January 28 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:30 pm EST 01/08/25 | |
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| Melissa Gilbert Mark Moses by Lia Romeo Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt 8-week engagment beings January 28 Off-Broadway at The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture Jane Dubin and Blair Russell present the Colt Coeur (Adrienne Campbell-Holt, Founding Artistic Director; Heather Cohn, Executive Producer) production of Still by Lia Romeo and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award-winner). Starring Melissa Gilbert ("Little House On The Prairie," "Secrets & Lies") and Mark Moses ("Desperate Housewives," "Mad Men"), the 8-week return engagement begins performances January 28, 2025 at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture's Loreto Theater (18 Bleecker Street, NYC). The official opening night is Thursday, February 6 at 6:30PM. Tickets are available online at SheenCenter.org, by phone at 212-219-3132, or in-person at The Sheen Center box office Monday to Friday noon to 5PM and one hour before performances. Thirty years ago, Helen and Mark broke up, but they never completely forgot one another. Now, they are getting a second chance at first love. Single, and frustrated with dating apps, they are ready to try again. But Mark has an agenda and Helen has a secret that could derail his plans. Still is a funny yet heart-wrenching story for anyone who has ever wondered "what if?". "I'm so excited to be a part of this production of Still," says Melissa Gilbert. "This play has such meaning for me. The core questions are absolutely vital to who we are and who we want to be as Americans. Can we put our differences aside for love? Is love enough?" "This play is very personal for me," says playwright Lia Romeo. "I was married to someone I cared deeply about, but we disagreed on some important issues. I found myself wondering what to do when you love someone, but you hate some of the things that person believes. I wrote the play to try to figure it out… and I didn't, but I did realize that it's a question that resonates with a lot of people. The world looks different – and scarier – now than when I first wrote Still, and I think the questions the play asks are even more important. Instead of responding with contempt when we disagree, how can we engage? Conversation is the only way to change minds, and I hope this play can be a piece of that conversation." Still features scenic design by Alexander Woodward, costume design by Barbara Bell, lighting design by Reza Behat, and sound design by Hidenori Nakajo. Stuart Metcalf is the production manager and Hillel Friedman and Rashad Chambers of Evan Bernardin Productions are General Managers. Marketing and Advertising is by Table 7 Strategy, and casting is by Karie Koppel Casting. This return engagement of Still follows a successful run at Vermont's Dorset Theatre Festival in 2023, and its subsequent Off-Broadway premiere at the DR2 Theatre in Spring 2024. LISTINGS INFORMATION: Still plays January 28 – March 23 at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture's Loreto Theater (18 Bleecker Street, NYC). The official opening night is Thursday, February 6 at 6:30PM. The regular performance schedule is Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday at 7:30PM; Friday at 6PM; with matinees Thursday at 2:30PM, and Saturday and Sunday at 3PM. Tickets, ranging from $39 - $99, are now available online at SheenCenter.org, by phone at 212-219-3132, or in-person at The Sheen Center box office Monday to Friday noon to 5PM and one hour before performances. MELISSA GILBERT (Helen) is an Emmy-winning, Golden Globe nominated actor, director, producer, NY Times Best Selling author and co-founder of the lifestyle brand Modern Prairie. Gilbert made her stage debut in 1979 as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker. A member of the legendary Actor's Studio, Gilbert's other professional theater credits include Laura in Glass Menagerie, Elma Duckworth in Bus Stop, Melissa Gardner in Love Letters, and Rose White, a role she created, in A Shayna Maidel (Outer Critic's Circle Award and Theater World Award). In 2008, Gilbert also created the role of Ma in the Guthrie Theater's presentation of Little House on the Prairie: The Musical and toured North America the following year. In 2014, Gilbert played M'Lynn in a production of Steel Magnolias at the Totem Pole Playhouse. Gilbert's off-Broadway credits include If Only: A Love Story at the Cherry Lane, The Dead 1904 with the Irish Repertory Company and My Brilliant Divorce at the New Ohio Theater. Most recently, Gilbert starred in the premiere of the critically acclaimed play When Harry Met Rehab at the Greenhouse theater center in Chicago. MARK MOSES (Mark) acted in 25 theater productions, 40 films, over 300 television episodes. Broadway: Slab Boys. Off B'way: Love's Labor's Lost at The Public, Burleigh Grimes at the New World Theatre, the American premiere of Our Country's Good at the Mark Taper Forum, and four seasons at The Old Globe Theater. Films: Academy Award winners Platoon, Born of the Fourth of July, and Letters from Iwo Jima. Other films, Bombshell, Mapplethorpe, Cesar Chavez, Swing Vote, The Doors, Deep Impact, Someone to Watch Over Me. Mark won three SAG ensemble awards, Emmy award winning television shows: Duck Philips in "Mad Men", Paul Young in "Desperate Housewives" , and Dennis Boyd in Homeland. Other shows include So Help Me Todd, Alaska Daily, Deputy, Berlin Station, The Killing, The Last Ship, Manhattan, Salvation, Key and Peele. TV films - HBO's The Tracker, Rough Riders, and Gettysburg. Mark supports St. Jude's Hospital for Children, and is married to actress/writer, Annie LaRussa. LIA ROMEO (Playwright) is a recent graduate of the Juilliard playwriting program. Her plays have been developed at the O'Neill, La Jolla Playhouse, the Lark, and elsewhere, and have been produced at companies such as Colt Coeur, Dorset Theatre Festival, Laguna Playhouse, Unicorn Theatre, Project Y Theatre, and New Jersey Repertory Theatre. Four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her plays are published by TRW, Broadway Licensing, and Broadway Play Publishing. She is the associate artistic director of Project Y Theatre, a company member with Colt Coeur, and the co-founder of the Parent-Caregiver Playwrights Group. She teaches in the M.A. program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT (Director) is an award-winning NYC-based director and choreographer and the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur. Recent world premieres: Finn by Chris Dimond, Michael Kooman and Chris Nee (Kennedy Center), Still (Colt Coeur at DR2, NYC & Dorset Theatre Festival, VT), Dodi & Diana by Kareem Fahmy (Colt Coeur at HERE), Afterwords, by Emily Kaczmarek, music & lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, choreographed by Ebony Williams (5th Avenue Theater, Heileman & Haver Award for Best New Musical), NY premiere of Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector (Colt Coeur), Other World, by Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen & Ann McNamee, choreography by Karla Puno Garcia (Delaware Theatre Company, BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Musical), We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber (City Theater, Pittsburgh), Hatef**k, by Rehana Lew Mirza (WP/Colt Coeur), Joan by Stephen Belber (Colt Coeur), Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck starring Tyne and Tim Daly (Primary Stages). Currently developing work with Carmel Dean & Mindi Dickstein (Maiden Voyage), and Jaclyn Backhaus & Jonatha Brooke (Tempus). Associate Director of Dear Evan Hansen (OBC). Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award, "25 Women to Watch on Broadway". AdrienneCampbellHolt.com. JANE DUBIN (Producer) is a Tony, Drama Desk and Drama League Award-winning producer and the President of Double Play Connections, a theatrical production company committed to supporting the development of new work. Jane is a graduate of the CTI 14-week (NYC) and O'Neill(CT) Producing Workshops and Director of TRU's Producer Development Master Class. Ms. Dubin is Chair of the Board of Houses on the Moon Theater Company; a past Board member of the League of Professional Theatre Women and was a Tony voter for seven years. She is a member of the Broadway Women's Alliance, Off-Broadway Alliance, LPTW and Off-Broadway League. She serves as an evaluator for Bethany Arts Community's residency program. She is a frequent panelist and guest lecturer on theater-related matters. Jane serves on the advisory boards of Elizabeth Mascia Child Care Center, Axial Theatre and Dirty Laundry Theatre. Upcoming productions: The Village of Vale – an original musical. Broadway: Is This A Room, Dana H., The Prom (Drama Desk Best Musical), Farinelli and the King (Mark Rylance), An American in Paris (4 TONY Awards, London, National Tour), Ann, (Holland Taylor) (Lincoln Center); Bandstand, Peter and the Starcatcher (5 TONY Awards); Norman Conquests (TONY). Other: Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Beebo Brinker Chronicles (2008 GLAAD Media Award); Groundswell, The 39 Steps; The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (London). Film: Radium Girls. BLAIR RUSSELL (Producer) is a producer who specializes in developing new works for the theatre. Recent projects include the new musical Lizard Boy, which has been performed in 4 countries including Off-Broadway, For Tonight, which premiered in concert on the West End at the Adelphi Theatre, DIVA: Live From Hell! (Edinburgh, Off West End), and Pop Off, Michelangelo! (Edinburgh, Off West End). He was a producer on Slave Play which held the record for most Tony-nominated play in history, is developing the new musical Salem which has over 50k followers on social media, and executive produced the first two concept albums in the EPIC series which have over 150 million streams globally. Other projects as co-producer / investor include The Wiz (National Tour/Broadway 2024), Sweeney Todd (Immersive Off-Broadway 2017), and Gyspy with Imelda Staunton (West End 2014). Blair is Co-Chair of the Board of The New Harmony Project and a member of the Board of Trustees of Goodspeed Musicals and SPACE on Ryder Farm. He is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in Technical Theatre/Stage Management. COLT COEUR THEATER is a Brooklyn-based theatre company founded in 2010. Our original, story-driven, visceral theatre embraces the power of intimate live performance—it pulls you close and doesn't let go. Our community of artists nurtures and invests in diverse perspectives to produce work that challenges the boundaries between tradition and experimentation. We embrace the ambivalence, terror and exhilaration of our time with theatre that is an antidote to the pervasive cultural illness of loneliness. We explore themes of coming-of-age, individual and collective identity, nostalgia and history, public versus private, love, lust, and loss. Through our unique collective process, every theatre artist—actor, playwright, designer—takes part in shared invention and collaborative creation; creating heart- and mind-opening audience experiences unlike any other. We nurture the next generation of theatre artists by providing access, education and a professional pipeline, while amplifying voices and perspectives that have historically been sidelined. |
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