Spy Drama Blood and Gifts Extends at Lincoln Center Theater

Lincoln Center Theater has extended the limited engagement run of J.T. Rogers’ Blood and Gifts for an additional week, through January 8, 2012, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. The off-Broadway production opened on November 21, directed by Bartlett Sher.

The ensemble cast of Blood and Gifts features Michael Aronov, Jeremy Davidson, Robert Hogan, Jefferson Mays, Andrés Munar, Rudy Mungaray, J Paul Nicholas, Paul Niebanck, John Procaccino, Liv Rooth, Gabriel Ruiz, Pej Vahdat, Andrew Weems and Bernard White.

Blood and Gifts tells the story of the secret spy war behind the Soviet-Afghan War of the 1980s. Spanning a decade and playing out in Washington DC, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the play follows CIA operative Jim Warnock (Davidson) as he struggles to stop the Soviet Army’s destruction of Afghanistan. The ground constantly shifts for Jim and his counterparts in the KGB (Aronov) and British and Pakistani secret service (Mays and Ruiz) as the political and personal alliances between the men keeps changing. And as the outcome of the entire Cold War comes into play, Jim and a larger-than-life Afghan warlord (White) find the only person they can trust is each other.