The Red Fern Theatre Company announces that David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys will run March 19 - April 5, 2009 at the Shell Theater in the Times Square Arts Building. The Red Fern's third show of the 2008-2009 "Season of Secrets" will be directed by Artistic Director Melanie Moyer Williams.
The Red Fern Theatre Company's presentation of Miss Evers' Boys explores the depths of medical ethics while telling a heartrending account of a group of men's search for strength through unity and music amidst harrowingly deteriorating health and institutional betrayal. Set during the 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Study, one of the most notorious medical secrets in American history, a nurse wrestles with her loyalty to the institute's doctors while her band of patients finds the will to live through the power of music. Miss Evers' Boys was a runner up for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
The Red Fern Theatre will partner with The Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation as part of its ongoing mission to produce socially conscious plays while teaming with philanthropies whose missions assist those affected by the issues addressed in the play. The foundation is the sole supporter of the Nordoff-Robbins Center for Music Therapy at New York University, which provides music therapy services for children and adults on the autistic spectrum and a wide variety of other disabilities. The Center treats its clients in one-on-one or group sessions, depending on the individual needs of the client. http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/nordoff/
Miss Evers' Boys will run from March 19th through April 5th. Show times are Thursday - Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm at the Shell Theater in the Times Square Arts Building at 300 West 43rd Street at Eighth Avenue. Tickets are $18.
To order, please visit https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/72922 or call 212-352-3101.
Tickets are available at the box office 20 minutes prior to the show on a cash-only-basis.
The production features Jason Donnell Bush*, Evander Duck*, Alex C. Ferrill*, Garrett Lee Hendricks, Marty Austin Lamar, Nedra McClyde*, and David Pendleton*. The production team includes direction by Red Fern Artistic Director Melanie Moyer Williams, choreography by Michael Blevins, musical direction by Stephen Anthony Elkins, scenic design by Adrienne Kapalko, costume design by Ryan J. Moller, lighting design by Ryan Metzler musical composition by Kristen Lee Rosenfeld, piano performance by Laura Anderson, assistant direction by Caroline von Kuhn, and stage management by Laura Luciano.
* Actors appear courtesy of Actors' Equity Association. Equity Approved Showcase.
