Tickets Now On Sale for Moira Buffini's Dying For It, Starring Joey Slotnick, Off-Broadway

Tickets are now available to see Joey Slotnick lead the American premiere of Dying For It. The Moira Buffini play, adapted from Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide, will begin off-Broadway performances on December 11 at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, where it will run through January 18, 2015. The production's opening night is set for January 8.

Directed by Neil Pepe, Dying For It follows Semyon (Slotnick), a man down on his luck, married to a nag and out of options. When he decides to throw in the towel and kill himself, a deluge of sympathetic visitors descends upon him, determined to make him a martyr for their many causes. The play satirizes the hypocrisy and illogic of Soviet life and was banned by Stalin before ever hitting the stage.

The cast will also include will also feature an ensemble cast including Mia Barron, Ben Beckley, Nathan Dame, Patch Darragh, Clea Lewis, Peter Maloney Andrew Mayer, Mary Beth Peil, Jeanine Serralles, Robert Stanton and C.J. Wilson.