Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams Extends Through 10/16

Primary Stages is extending its production of Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams for a second time. The show will now run an extra two weeks through October 16.

Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams concerns a life-changing encounter between Lou Don Amendolia and Jessie Nuncle Alison Fraser, the producers of a struggling children's theater, and Annabelle Willard Marian Seldes, the owner of an abandoned grand theater the Nuncles covet.

Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams, directed by Michael Morris, opened at 59E59's Theater A on August 18 with Nathan Lane in the role now played by Amendolia. In his Broadway.com Review of the show, Eric Grode wrote: "Any play that uses the transporting power of the theater as its central metaphor sets the bar pretty high for itself. OK, we say, how about a little of this magic we keep hearing so much about? Instead, Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams reminds us that theater can also be as forced and boring as any other art form… Michael Morris's slack, prosaic direction does McNally no favors. He uses the theater's many stage props to surprisingly fruitless effect and shows a tin ear during the more emotional exchanges. His direction of several characters consists of one basic tic or posture."

In addition to Amendolia, Fraser and Seldes, Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams stars Michael Countryman, Darren Pettie, R.E. Rodgers and Miriam Shor. For the extension period, October 4 through October 16, Matthew Mabe Cobb, McNally's Corpus Christi will replace R.E. Rodgers.