Alan Cumming Sets a Date for White Rabbit Red Rabbit Off-Broadway

We now have a date for Tony winner Alan Cumming's star turn in the New York premiere of White Rabbit Red Rabbit off-Broadway. Nassim Soleimanpour’s show is playing Monday nights at off-Broadway's Westside Theatre; Cumming will perform on April 25.

No rehearsal. No director. No set. No spoilers. A different performer each night is handed the script for the first time as they step onto the stage. The rotating cast will each perform the play once.

Nathan Lane appeared on March 7, followed by Whoopi Goldberg on March 14. Other stars with dates set in the calendar include: Patrick Wilson on March 21, Brian Dennehy on March 28, Wayne Brady on April 4, Cynthia Nixon on April 18, Mike Birbiglia on April 11 and Martin Short on May 2.

Forbidden to leave his country, young Iranian playwright Soleimanpour found a way for his voice to get out when he physically could not—distilling the experience of his isolation in a non-traditional new play. The show had its world premiere in 2011 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and has since been translated into fifteen different languages and performed over 200 times worldwide. A portion of the play’s profits will go to PEN International, the world’s leading association of writers working to promote literature and defend freedom of expression around the world.