by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
directed by BEN STEINFELD
February 8, 2024- March 24, 2024
Run time: 2 hours, including one 10-minute intermission
Costume design by ASHLEY ROSE HORTON
Lighting design by MEXTLY COUZIN
Production Stage Manager: CHANDALAE NYSWONGER
Assistant Stage Manager: MADISON LANE
Production manager: LUNER ECLIPSE PRODUCTIONS
“FIASCO’S PERICLES IS A REVELATION, a revivification of New York theater’s most essential ensemble and a redemption for a play seldom produced.”
– Dan Rubins, Slant Magazine
“The chief delight here, as in any Fiasco show, is watching the actors work with such fluency and in such communion, supporting and enjoying one another’s work. IT’S REASON ENOUGH TO SET SAIL.” – Alexis Soloski, The New York Times
“HILARIOUS! An altogether joyous production at Classic Stage Company that comes in at a fast-paced two hours that delight from beginning to end.” – Pete Hempstead, Theatermania
“Fiasco Theater, ever daring, sails straight into the storm of Shakespeare’s nautical adventure Pericles. The troupe’s enchanting blend of low-tech story-theater and music MAKE THIS ROCKY EPIC OF THE HIGH SEAS SING.” – Raven Snook, Time Out New York
★★★★ – David Finkel, New York Stage Review
“FIASCO’S HEARTY, EARNEST, THEATER-OUT-OF-A-TRUNK APPROACH to the words and worlds of [Shakespeare] seemingly hasn’t aged a day.” – Sara Holdren, Vulture
Pericles takes the Prince of Tyre on a Mediterranean adventure full of riddles, betrayals…and pirates! From confident leader to yearning lover to seeker of meaning, our hero in this Shakespearean tragicomedy is brought to life on the CSC stage by the inventive Fiasco Theater, who have previously delighted New York audiences with inspired interpretations of Cymbeline and Into the Woods. The Fiasco Theater ensemble brings music, poetry, and a completely new way of seeing one of the Bard’s most complex characters.
Starring
JESSIE AUSTRIAN (Fiasco’s Cymbeline & Into the Woods), NOAH BRODY (Fiasco’s Merrily We Roll Along, CSC’s As You Like It), PAUL L. COFFEY (“Blue Bloods,” Fiasco’s Cymbeline), Tony Award nominee ANDY GROTELUESCHEN (Tootsie, CSC’s Assassins), DEVIN E. HAQQ (Fiasco’s Measure for Measure & Knight of the Burning Pestle), BEN STEINFELD (Fiasco’s Into the Woods, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), PACO TOLSON (Vietgone, Fiasco and CSC’s Twelfth Night), TATIANA WECHSLER (Mr. Saturday Night, Penelope), and EMILY YOUNG (Fiasco’s Cymbeline, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson).
ACCESS INITIATIVES
Classic Stage Company and Fiasco Theater are working to make Pericles accessible to all. The following performances of Pericles feature various access initiatives to help make theater accessible and welcome to all.
OPEN & CLOSED CAPTIONING
Open Captioning Performances
- Monday, March 18 at 7 pm
- Tuesday, March 19 at 7 pm
Closed Captioning is available at all performances.
All performances of Fiasco Theater’s Pericles will have closed captioning available on any personal smart device, made possible by GlobeTitles. Patrons will be given a URL and access to free WiFi in order to follow along on their own devices.
Additionally, the production will have two open captioned performances. Closed captions can be turned on or off by the viewer, at their discretion. Open captions are always visible and cannot be turned on or off. The two performances with open captions will have video screens near the stage that will display the text alongside the performance.
Classic Stage Company is a mask-optional space, and proof of vaccination is no longer required. All patrons attending performances and events are encourages but not required to wear masks. There will designated mask-required performances during each show run this season.
We ask all audience members to please stay home if they have a sore throat, are feeling sick in any other way, or have been recently exposed to COVID-19. Please contact our box office for refunds or exchanges by calling 212.677.4210 x 10 or emailing [email protected].
CSC reserves the right to revise protocols as the rate of transmission changes and in light of new scientific data that may present itself.
Photos by Austin Ruffer