Manhattan Theatre Club has extended its production of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole by another week. The show will now run at the Biltmore Theatre through April 9, pushing back the run of the venue's next tenant, Conor McPherson's Shining City, by one week. Shining City is now set to begin performances on April 20 in preparation for a May 9 opening.
In Rabbit Hole, Becca Cynthia Nixon and Howie Corbett John Slattery have everything they could want, until a life-shattering accident turns their world upside down, and leaves the couple drifting perilously apart. Becca, who must also cope with the distractions of her reckless sister Izzy Mary Catherine Garrison, and their opinionated mother, Nat Tyne Daly, takes solace in her unlikely friendship with a neighborhood teenager, Jason John Gallagher Jr., who might provide the key to lead her back from the darkest of places. Rabbit Hole, directed by Daniel Sullivan, opened to mixed reviews on February 3.
Shining City focuses on John Oliver Platt, a guilt-ridden man who visits a therapist, Ian Brían F. O'Byrne, after seeing the ghost of his recently deceased wife. What starts out as an everyday exchange becomes a gripping struggle to survive--a struggle that will change both men for the rest of their lives. Peter Scanavino will join previously announced cast members O'Byrne, Platt and Martha Plimpton in the drama. Robert Falls directs.
