Edie Falco and Alison Pill to Headline This Wide Night for Naked Angels

In a last-minute addition to the spring season, Edie Falco and Alison Pill will co-star in Naked Angels’ forthcoming off-Broadway production of This Wide Night, an award-winning play by Chloe Moss. Directed by Anne Kauffman, the play will begin previews on May 8 and open on May 16 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, the Playwrights Horizons upstairs venue where Naked Angels’ production of Next Fall debuted last summer before transferring to Broadway.

Winner of the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for female playwrights, This Wide Night centers on a female ex-con (Pill) who is unexpectedly visited by her former cellmate (Falco). The two outcasts, once so close on the inside, struggle to navigate a friendship beyond the prison walls—which may threaten their prospects to start over. The play was first produced in 2008 by Clean Break, a London organization that works with women affected by the criminal justice system.

Falco, known to TV audiences for the title role in Nurse Jackie and as Carmela in The Sopranos, has appeared on Broadway in ’Night Mother, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune and Side Man.

Pill starred on Broadway in The Miracle Worker (which closed on April 4) and Mauritius and received a Tony nomination for The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Off-Broadway, she gave an acclaimed performance in Blackbird.

The creative team for This Wide Night includes Rachel Hauck (Scenic Design, Emily Rebholz (Costume Design), Matt Frey (Lighting Design) and Robert Kaplowitz (Sound Design).