Off-B'way's Squeeze Box Extends Through 11/20

Ann Randolph's one-woman show Squeeze Box, which is being produced by Anne Bancroft, has extended its limited engagement at the Acorn Theatre. The show will now run off-Broadway through November 20.

Squeeze Box weaves together Randolph's personal experiences of working in a women's homeless shelter and of her love affair with the accordionist of her dreams. With just a chair, a banjo, a guitar and her elastic face and acrobatic voice, Randolph paints portraits of the shelter's residents.

Squeeze Box, directed by Alan Bailey, opened off-Broadway on July 29. In his Broadway.com Review of the piece, Ron Lasko wrote: "As a performer, Randolph is quite proficient and deftly plays one eccentric character after another, handling all the odd quirks and strange accents with expertise. Of course, there are tons of actors who are just as proficient, but it is her passion for the material that pushes her over the top. Even better than the performance is the writing. Squeeze Box is a very tight 75 minutes that is alternately funny and poignant."