World Premiere of Lee Blessing's A User's Guide to Hell, Featuring Bernard Madoff Begins Performances Sept. 5 | Playbill

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News World Premiere of Lee Blessing's A User's Guide to Hell, Featuring Bernard Madoff Begins Performances Sept. 5 A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoff, by Tony and Pulitzer Prize nominee Lee Blessing, begins performances Sept. 5 at Atlantic Stage II.

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Edward James Hyland

The show officially opens Off-Broadway Sept. 7 and runs through Sept. 28.

Directed by Michole Biancosino, the cast features features Edward James Hyland ("Boardwalk Empire," Arcadia) as Bernard Madoff and David Deblinger ("Damages," "The Sopranos") as Verge. Eric Sutton and Polly Lee (Graceland) play residents of hell.

Here's how the show is billed: "A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoff has the greatest Ponzi schemer in history taken on a cynical tour of hell by his blue collar guide Verge. This hell is not quite the hell imagined by Virgil or Dante, but in Mr. Blessing's hell, a hell resembling New York City, Mr. Madoff encounters many of hell's inhabitants with scorecards just like his and the unimaginable special punishments he has earned."

A User's Guide to Hell, featuring Bernard Madoff is produced by Project Y Theatre Company.

Blesssing's other plays include When We Go Upon the Sea, A Body of Water, Going to St. Ives, Thief River, Cobb, Chesapeake, Eleemosynary and Down the Road.

Tickets and more information are available by calling (212) 352-3101 or visiting projectytheatre.org.

 
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