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Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Simon Gray's comedy-drama The Common Pursuit, about literary-minded college friends who are changed over the years, opened May 24 following previews from May 4 at RTC's Off-Broadway home at the Laura Pels Theatre.
Tony Award nominee Moisés Kaufman directs Kristen Bush as Marigold, Kieran Campion as Peter, Josh Cooke as Stuart, Jacob Fishel as Martin, Tim McGeever as Humphry and Lucas Near-Verbrugghe as Nick.
Kaufman directed Broadway's I Am My Own Wife (for which he received a Tony nomination) and 33 Variations and Off-Broadway's The Laramie Project. This is a limited engagement through July 29.
According to Roundabout, "The Common Pursuit chronicles 20 years in the lives of six friends, from their ambitious collegiate days to their surprising discoveries in the real world. Idealistic Cambridge student Stuart Thorne enlists some of his classmates to help him launch a new literary magazine. With the pursuit of great literature as their common thread, they become lifelong friends. But when damaging secrets crop up and business demands creep in, Stuart is faced with some unexpected decisions. Delightfully witty and remarkably poignant, The Common Pursuit is a captivating journey from who we think we are...to who we turn out to be."
The design team includes Derek McLane (sets), Clint Ramos (costumes) and David Lander (lights).
The Common Pursuit had its American premiere at Long Wharf Theater in 1985. The first Off-Broadway production in 1986 ran 352 performances and received the 1987 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play and the 1987 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play.
Kaufman most recently directed the Broadway production of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. He is one of the playwrights whose work is featured in Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays.
The Common Pursuit plays Tuesday through Saturday evening at 7:30 PM with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 PM.
The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre is at 111 W. 46th Street.
Ticket prices range $71-$81. Tickets are available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212) 719-1300, online at roundabouttheatre.org or at the Laura Pels box office.
