Dorothy Hale Brings in New Director, Postpones Opening

The off-Broadway production of Myra Bairstow's The Rise Of Dorothy Hale has a new director and a new opening night. Pamela Hall has replaced Penny Templeton as director of the play, currently in previews at St. Luke's Theater. Opening night, originally set for September 30, will now be October 4.

History has recorded that Dorothy Hale, the 36-year-old widow of American muralist Gardner Hale, died in New York City on October 21, 1938, after plunging 16 stories from her apartment window at the Hampshire House on Central Park South. Dorothy's death was ruled a suicide. Was Hale's death a suicide—or a murder made to look like a suicide?

The Rise of Dorothy Hale stars Michael Badalucco, Patrick Boll, Sarita Choudhury, Laura Koffman, Mark LaMura and Sarah Wynter and is produced by Judson Moore, Paolo Montalban, Asset Management Partners LLC, Edmund Gaynes and Aridyne Productions LLC.