Fifty Words, Starring Butz and Marvel, Extends at MCC

MCC Theater's world premiere production of Michael Weller's Fifty Words will extend for two weeks at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, through November 8. Starring Norbert Leo Butz and Elizabeth Marvel, the play began performances on September 10 and had been schduled to close on October 25. Austin Pendleton is the director.

In Fifty Words, something's gone awry behind the idyllic façade of Jan and Adam's Brooklyn brownstone. At 9:10 p.m., they're reveling in the freedom of having waved off their young son, Greg, to his first sleepover. By 9:30 p.m., things have gone, well…way past awry. Alternately funny and frightening, Fifty Words is an expansive look at modern marriage, as seen through the looking glass of one couple's long night's journey into day.