59E59

Address: 59 East 59th Street - New York, NY 10022 - Midtown - North side of East 59th Street, between Madison and Park Avenues.

Closest subway: 4, 5, 6 to 59th Street. Walk west to the theatre.

Now Playing:

Southern Comforts

Trousers

The Sunset Limited

The Cleric

Southern Comforts:

Primary Stages presents the New York premiere of Southern Comforts by Kathleen Clark. The play tells the story of a widow and widower who meet late in life and find a way into each other's hearts. Southern Comforts premiered at the Coconut Grove Playhouse earlier this year.

PERFORMANCES:

Tue: 7:00 pm

Wed - Sat: 8:00 pm

Sat: 2:00 pm

CAST:
Penny Fuller, Larry Keith

AUTHOR:
Kathleen Clark

DIRECTOR:
Judith Ivey

SETS:
Thomas Lynch

LIGHTING:
Brian Nason

COSTUMES:
Joseph G. Aulisi

SOUND:
T. Richard Fitzgerald

MUSIC:
Paul Schwartz

STAGE MANAGER:
Misha Siegel-Rivers

PRODUCING COMPANY:
Primary Stages

Trousers:

This is from the press materials: "Trousers takes a funny and quirky look at male friendship as it examines the messy lives of Dermot and Mick, two old college chums who've been out of contact for the last 17 years. Now pushing 40, the duo is forcibly reunited when Mick suddenly appears on Dermot's doorstep and confesses that he's lost his girlfriend, his apartment and his job and needs a place to sort things out. As the two take note of the various changes that have taken place since they last saw each other (Mick's expanding waistline, Dermot's odd interest in yoga and herbal tea) Dermot discovers a relic of their misspent youth: Mick's favorite pair of pants from 1989, purchased in New York City when the duo visited as college students. As the weeks go by, the ambitious Dermot tries to get the bone-idle Mick off the couch and back into the world. But he keeps flashing back to their New York trip in the '80s and the questionable choices, unfulfilled hopes and special pair of trousers that have somehow led both of them to this point in their lives."

PERFORMANCES:

Tue - Sat: 8:30 pm

Sun: 7:30 pm

CAST:
Daniel Freedom Stewart, Gary Gregg

AUTHOR:
David Parnell & Paul Meade

DIRECTOR:
Paul Meade

SETS:
Lex Liang

LIGHTING:
James Bedell

COSTUMES:
Elizbaeth Flauto

SOUND:
Zachary Williamson

PRODUCING COMPANY:
Origin Theatre Company

The Sunset Limited (starts October 24)

The Sunset Limited is a new play by Cormac McCarthy, presented by 59E59 Theaters and Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company. This description is from the press materials: "On a subway platform in New York City, an ex-con from the South saves the life of an intellectual atheist who wasn't looking for salvation. Now, the reformed murderer-turned-savior ventures to offer salvation of another kind, bringing the failed suicide victim back to his Harlem apartment for an articulate and moving debate about truth, fiction, and belief that only Cormac McCarthy (novelist, All the Pretty Horses) could pen.

PERFORMANCES:

Thu - Sat: at 8:15 pm

Sat: 2:15pm

Sun: 3:15 pm

CAST:
Austin Pendleton, Freeman Coffey

AUTHOR:
Cormac McCarthy

DIRECTOR:
Sheldon Patinkin

PRODUCING COMPANY:
59E59 Theaters & Steppenwolf Theatre Company

The Cleric (starts October 25)

This is from the press materials: "When an Irish-American priest believed to have been abducted by Hezbollah in Beirut in the mid '80s is discovered by U.S. Special Forces in post-9/11 Afghanistan, he immediately comes under suspicion for being an Islamic sympathizer at best, and, a terrorist in waiting at worst. Is this a man of principle caught in the middle of a war of political, ethnic and religious wills from which he doesn't have a prayer to escape? Or is he too, through his own mysterious actions, fanning the flames of hatred?"

PERFORMANCES:

Tue - Sat: 7:30 pm

Sat & Sun: 2:30 pm

CAST:
Armand DesHarnais, James Kloiber, Daniel Haughey, Sean Heeney, Richard T. Lester

AUTHOR:
Tim Marks

DIRECTOR:
Paula D'Alessandris

SOUND:
Brian Petway

SETS & LIGHTING:
Maruti Evans

PRODUCING COMPANY:
Mind the Gap Theatre