Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset Limited Headed for New York

The Sunset Limited, a play by best-selling novelist Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men will arrive in New York on October 24, according to The New York Times. Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater Company, which produced the play in May to critical acclaim, will brings its production to 59E59 Theaters with its original stars, Austin Pendleton and Freeman Coffey. Sheldon Patinkin directed.

In The Sunset Limited, a startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a rundown tenement, where a life or death decision must be made. The Chicago Tribune's review, quoted on Steppenwolf's Web site, called the play "a brilliantly articulated piece, penned by a wildly acclaimed fiction writer. Nothing short of dazzling. So astonishingly effecting, so powerful, so stimulating!"

Stage veteran Pendleton has worked often at Steppenwolf, appearing as an actor in Uncle Vanya, Valparaiso and Educating Rita, which also ran off-Broadway. His plays include Booth, Uncle Bob and Orson's Shadow, which received its world premiere in the Steppenwolf Garage and had a long commercial run off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theater.

Coffey, who made his Steppenwolf debut with The Sunset Limited has appeared in many Chicago productions at the Goodman, Victory Garden, Northlight and Onyx Theaters, among others. The Sunset Limited is scheduled to run off-Broadway from October 24 to November 19.