Jerusalem Broadway Run Extended by Four Weeks

The Royal Court Theatre’s production of Jerusalem, which is currently running at the Music Box Theatre on New York’s Broadway has extended its run by four weeks and will now play through to 21 Aug 2011.

Since opening on Broadway, Jerusalem has been nominated for six Tony Awards and received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Foreign Play.

Mark Rylance who plays Johnny ‘Rooster’ Byron and has been lauded as delivering one of the great stage performances of our time was also given a special citation for his performance by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and won the award for Most Distinguished Performance in the 2011 Drama league Awards and Best Actor in the Outer Critics Circle Award

Jerusalem, directed by former Royal Court Artistic Director Ian Rickson, opened at the Royal Court Theatre in July, 2009 with critics praising playwright Jez Butterworth’s beautiful and comic elegy for a disappearing way of life in rural England. The production played an extended sold out run at the Royal Court, before moving to the Apollo Theatre in the West End in January, 2010, where it received an unprecedented set of five-star reviews from 12 London newspapers and won awards across the board.