Due to an emergency situation, the premiere of ‘White Hot’ by Tommy Smith at West of Lenin will be postponed by one week – to officially open Friday, January 27th. The show will run Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays for three weeks (plus one industry night performance on Monday, February 6th,) ending on February 11th.
Those holding tickets to the cancelled performances for this weekend can exchange them for tickets to another scheduled performance, or obtain a full refund, by contacting Brown Paper Tickets, on-line or at 1-800/838-3006.
Produced by Marxiano Productions, ‘White Hot’ follows the 2010 smash hit success of playwright Tommy Smith’s ‘Sextet’. Directed by Braden Abraham of the Seattle Repertory Theatre (Betrayal, My Name is Rachel Corrie,) White Hot features award winning actors Ray Tagavilla and Hannah Franklin, as well as Kimberley Sustad (also debuting this month in J.J. Abrams television series Alcatraz.) This production also features the top notch design team of Jen Zeyl, Jessica Trundy, and Andrea Bush.
“[Tommy Smith] is writing in the shadow of our most daring and politically incendiary of martyred playwright saints, Sarah Kane and Edward Bond … WHITE HOT is bleak terrain, a buried cesspool of self-loathing and unseemly, sadistic yearnings in love. The play can be read as a critique of the deadening fallout of our reactionary, materialistic, exploitative and soulless era. It can be read as a bad dream or a soap opera about the banality of evil. However you read it, it doesn’t go down easy.” – Craig Lucas, New York Theatre Review
Order tickets today to guarantee a seat for this ‘pitch-black psychodrama,’ as the shortened run should sell out fast – and is not recommended for audiences under 18 years of age. For more information, check the West of Lenin website.