39 Steps Sets Off-Broadway Closing Date, Eyes Move to the Great White Way

Hitchcock would be proud. The off-Broadway revival of 39 Steps will shutter on January 3, 2016 at the Union Square Theatre. At time of closing, this incarnation will have played 14 previews and 303 regular performances. Directed by Maria Aitken, the production is aiming to return to the Great White Way at some point in 2016.

Adapted from the 1935 Hitchcock film thriller by Patrick Barlow, 39 Steps features a cast of four actors who reenact all of the characters, locations and famous scenes in the movie using just a few props and a lot of theatrical ingenuity and split second quick changes.

The company currently includes Robert Petkoff as the dashing hero Richard Hannay, Billy Carter as Clown #1, Cameron Pow as Clown #2 and Brittany Vicars as Pamela/Annabella/Margaret.

After beginning life in London, 39 Steps received its American premiere in September 2007 at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. The show moved to the Roundabout Theatre Company’s American Airlines Theatre on January 4, 2008, transferred to the Cort Theatre on April 29, 2008, and then to the Helen Hayes Theatre on January 21, 2009. After closing on Broadway on January 10, 2010, 39 Steps moved to New World Stages on March 25, 2010, where it played through January 16, 2011.