Mint Theater Company is producing the American premiere of Noël Coward’s The Rat Trap, directed by Alexander Lass, playing from Tuesday, November 1 through Saturday, December 10 at New York City Center Stage II.
Featured in the cast will be James Evans (The Woman in Black – Off-Broadway), Elisabeth Gray (Yours Unfaithfully – Mint Theater, Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Broadway), Ramzi Khalaf (Pippin – Paper Mill Playhouse, A Christmas Carol: A New Musical – Madison Square Garden), Heloise Lowenthal (Bristol Old Vic), Cynthia Mace (The Mountains Look Different, The Suitcase Under the Bed – Mint), Claire Saunders (Chains – Mint), and Sarin Monae West (The Skin of Our Teeth – Lincoln Center Theater).
Written when Coward was only 18 years old, this mature drama tells the story of a newlywed couple looking towards a bright future together, two promising writers vowing to support and love each other through the challenges of creative and professional endeavor. Things go even worse than imagined—the result being a drama of caustic realism, mixed with flashes of Coward’s biting wit. The play was not produced until 1926, riding on the coattails of Coward’s recent successes with The Vortex, Hay Fever and Fallen Angels — not to mention his ascending fame as an actor.
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New York City Center Stage II is located at 131 West 55th Street, between 6th & 7th Avenues, NYC
