Fabulation Extends at Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons' is extending its world premiere production of Lynn Nottage's Fabulation or, The Re-Education of Undine. The show, originally scheduled to end its limited engagement on June 27, will now close on July 11.

Fabulation, concerns Undine Charlayne Woodard, a successful publicist who, upon finding herself pregnant and broke, is plunged into a topsy-turvy world of welfare mothers and drug addicts, and forced to confront the family she left behind. The play is a modern day companion piece to Nottage's Intimate Apparel, which recently completed an acclaimed run at the Laura Pels Theatre.

Fabulation, directed by Kate Whorisky, officially opened at Playwrights Horizons' Peter Jay Sharp Theater on June 13. In his Broadway.com Review of the play, William Stevenson wrote: "Compared to Intimate Apparel--one of the most moving and beautifully acted plays of the past season--Fabulation is marred by an inconsistent tone and uneven direction. But in addition to the strong performances, the satire contains enough of Nottage's well-observed insights into the African-American experience to make it worth seeing."

Fabulation was sold-out before it opened at Playwrights. Because of the actors' schedules this is the last extension possible for the show.