Colin Quinn Long Story Short, Directed by Jerry Seinfeld, Headed for Fall Broadway Run

Former Saturday Night Live and Comedy Central star Colin Quinn will move his one-man show Colin Quinn Long Story Short to Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theatre for an 11-week limited engagement. Previews begin on October 22, with opening night set for November 9. The production will run through January 8, 2011, directed by Jerry Seinfeld.

Colin Quinn Long Story Short debuted on June 19 at off-Broadway’s Bleecker Street Theatre and extended its run through September 4. Quinn previously appeared at the Helen Hayes Theatre in the 1998 solo show Colin Quinn - An Irish Wake.

Comically channeling the demise of great world empires, Quinn takes audiences through his version of history of the world in 75 minutes. From his personification of Caesar as the original Italian mobster to his complaints about Ancient Greece and Antigone giving way to Costco and Snooki, Quinn uses satire to take on the attitudes, appetites and bad habits that toppled the world’s most powerful nations.

Colin Quinn Long Story Short will be produced on Broadway by Eva Price and Richard Martini. Additional creative team members will be announced at a later date.