Pulitzer Winner Ruined Extends Again, Through June 28

Manhattan Theatre Club has announced another extension of Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, which will now run through June 28 at New York City Center Stage I. This is the sixth extension of the play, which opened off-Broadway on February 10, directed by Kate Whoriskey.

A co-production of MTC and Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Ruined is set in a small mining town in Democratic Republic of Congo. The play follows Mama Nadi, a shrewd businesswoman in a land torn apart by civil war. But is she protecting or profiting by the women she shelters? How far will she go to survive? Can a price be placed on a human life?

In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, Ruined has received five Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding New Play, five Outer Critics Circle Award nominations including Outstanding Off-Broadway Play, two Drama League nominations and three Lucille Lortel Award nominations.

The cast features features Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Cherise Boothe, Chris Chalk, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, William Jackson Harper, Chiké Johnson, Russell G. Jones, Simon Shabantu Kashama, Kevin Mambo, Tom Mardirosian, Ron McBee and Condola Rashad.