DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY

PREVIEWS BEGIN THURSDAY, APRIL 1 ST

OPENING NIGHT IS TUESDAY, APRIL 20 TH

 Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive 

Producer) is proud to announce the world premiere of BETWEEN US, a new play by Joe

Hortua, to be directed by Christopher Ashley. BETWEEN US will begin previews on

Thursday, April 1st at MTC at City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). Opening

night is Tuesday, April 20 th.  

BETWEEN US features Kate Jennings Grant, David Harbour, Daphne Rubin-Vega

and Bradley White. The design team includes Neil Patel (sets), Jess Goldstein

(costumes), Christopher Akerlind (lighting) and Darron L. West (sound).

In BETWEEN US, Carlo and Joel have been close friends since graduate school days. Now

years have passed, and together with their wives, Grace and Sharyl, they're buying

homes, having kids and growing up. But two nights in each other's homes reveal how far

they've also grown apart. This world premiere production explores the ways we change,

the compromises we make, and the price we pay for our life choices.

The performance schedule for BETWEEN US is: Tuesday through Saturday at 8:00 PM,

with matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 PM, and Sunday evening performances

at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $60 and can be reserved by calling CityTix at (212) 581-1212.

Group and student rates are available. For group ticket information, call (212) 399-3000 x

134. Student tickets are $25 and are on sale for all performances based on availability on

the day of the performance, up to one hour before showtime. Call (212) 581-1212 for

further information. MTC at City Center is accessible to people with disabilities and is

equipped with a hearing augmentation system.

BIOGRAPHIES

  JOE HORTUA (Playwright). Joe's work has been read and staged in New York City at

  Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theatre, the Actor's Studio, Second Stage Theatre Company,

  Rattlestick Theatre Productions, Rising Phoenix Repertory and the LABrynth Company; in

  London and abroad at the Royal Court Theatre and the American Theatre Company of

  Brussels; and regionally at the Geva Theatre in Rochester, the Chicago Dramatists

  Workshop, South Coast Repertory and the Sundance Institute. His short screenplay Sick

  was produced by Film Forge Productions and directed in the Summer of 2000 by the

  theatre director Ron Daniels. He was Playwright-in-Residence at the 2001 Chautauqua

  Summer Festival. Making It was developed during the 2001 Sundance Theatre    

  Laboratory and produced at South Coast Repertory. His next play has been

  commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum.

  CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY (Director). MTC: Wonder of the World, newyorkers. Broadway:

  The Rocky Horror Show. NY Stage: Valhalla (NYTW), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told

  (NYTW, Minetta Lane), Mr. Charles; Currently of Palm Beach (EST), Jeffrey, The Naked

  Truth (WPA), Blown Sideways Through Life (NYTW), Fires in the Mirror (Public), Bunny

  Bunny (Lortel), Das Barbecu (Minetta Lane) Mondo Drama, As Thousands Cheer; The

  Country Club (by Douglas Carter Beane) and Rude Entertainment all at the Drama Dept.

  National Tour: Seussical The Musical. Regional: American Repertory Theatre, Center

  Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, George Street, Goodspeed Opera, Intiman, Los Angeles

  Theater Center, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Co. Film: Jeffrey (Orion

  Classics). TV: "Blown Sideways Through Life" (American Playhouse, PBS).

  KATE JENNINGS GRANT (Sharyl) Broadway: Proof (dir. Daniel Sullivan), An American

  Daughter (dir. Daniel Sullivan). Encores! at City Center : Evelina in Bloomer Girl with

  Kathleen Chalfant and Philip Bosco (dir. Brad Rouse). National tour: Sharon in Finian's

  Rainbow (dir. Lonny Price), Eve Harrington in Applause (dir. Gene Saks). Off-

  Broadway:The Beard of Avon (dir. Doug Hughes), Radiant Baby, Summer of '42. Hard

  Feelings, Wonderland. Regional credits include Kim's Sister at New York Stage and Film

  and A Little Night Music at Williamstown. Film: The Object of My Affection. Television:

 "Sex  and the City," "Law & Order," "Trinity," "JAG," "As the World Turns" and "Guiding    

  Light." Kate holds a B.A. in English and Music Composition from the University of

  Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School 's Drama Division.

  DAVID HARBOUR (Joel). Broadway: The Invention of Love, The Rainmaker. Off-

  Broadway: Two Noble Kinsmen (Public Theater), Fifth of July (Signature Theater); A Bad

  Friend (Lincoln Center); Stranger (Vineyard); TheTime of the Cuckoo (Lincoln

  Center).Film: Kinsey. TV: "Hack," "Law & Order: S.V.U," and "Law & Order."

  DAPHNE RUBIN-VEGA (Grace) first lit up Broadway with her debut as Mimi in the original

  cast of Rent, for which she won the Theatre World Award, and recieved Tony and Drama

  Desk nominations for Best Actress in a Musical. In 2001, she returned to Broadway as

  Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show and most recently as Conchita in Anna in the  

  Tropics. Other credits: Karen Hartman's Gum (Women's Project), Sofia in Nilo Cruz's  

  Two Sisters and a Piano (Public). Last spring she was back at the Public in Suzan-Lori    

  Parks' Fucking A as Canary Mary, for which she received a Lucille Lortel nomination as  

  Best Featured Actress. Film credits include Wild Things (Blockbuster Entertainment 

  Award) and Flawless. Rubin-Vega won Best Actress in a Feature Film from the NY

  Independent Film and Video Festival for her performance in Skeleton Woman. Daphne is

  a member of LAByrinth Theater as well as the Drama Dept. She is also a recording artist. 

  Her latest, Rocket Man, is available on Emerge Records. Her band, DRV, plays around 

  NYC. www.daphnerubin-vega.com

  BRADLEY WHITE (Carlo). Theater: One Day on Wall Street by Julia Dahl (Greenwich 

  Street Theater); The Substance of Fire by Jon Robin Baitz (original cast, Long Wharf);

  Gus and Al by Albert Innuarto (Playwright’s Horizons); The Stand-In by Keith Curran,    

  The Suffering Colonel by Kenneth Lonergan and many more new works at Naked Angels

  written by fellow company members Warren Leight, Jon Robin Baitz and others. Film: 30

  Days, Pay It Forward, Object of My Affection, The Night We Never Met. Television: Over

  two dozen TV shows and pilots, including "House Rules," "Spin City," "West Wing," "Ally

  McBeal," "It's All Relative," "Leap of Faith," "NYPD Blue," "Family Law," "That's Life," "Only

  Living Boy in New York," three episodes of "Law & Order," and an unpopular recurring  

  role on "Mad About You" and two TV movies, "Jenifer" and "Bad Apple."