A new play by Richard Hellesen, Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground, will play a seven-week limited engagement, Tuesday, June 13 through Sunday, July 30, Off-Broadway at Theatre at St. Clements. The play is directed by Peter Ellenstein.
Tony Award winner John Rubinstein (Pippin, Children of a Lesser God) will star as President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Adapted from an array of General Eisenhower’s memoirs, speeches, and letters, the play is a candid, fictional eavesdropping on Eisenhower at his Gettysburg, Pennsylvania farm. It is 1962 and The New York Times Magazine has published its first list ranking the American Presidents in order of greatness. Pondering his placement on the list, Eisenhower looks back on his life—his Kansas upbringing, his decorated Army career, his victories in World War II and his two terms as President, contemplating the qualities and adversities that make an American President great.
Preview performances are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Monday at 7 PM; Saturday at 8 PM; with matinees Sunday at 3 PM and Monday at 2 PM. Beginning June 23, performances are Thursday, Friday and Monday at 7 PM, Saturday at 8 PM, with matinees Thursday and Saturday at 2 PM and Sunday at 3 PM. Tickets range from $55 – $99 and are on sale at OvationTix.com. Additionally, premium and VIP ticketing is available. For more information, visit EisenhowerThePlay.com.
The Theatre at St. Clements is located at 423 W. 46th Street, NYC
