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Vineyard Theatre Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern announce that New York Times Critic's Pick, Dana H., by Lucas Hnath, adapted from interviews with Dana Higginbotham conducted by Steve Cosson, and directed by Les Waters, has extended for the second time and will now play at the Vineyard Theatre (108 East 15th St.) through Saturday, April 11. The production, which stars Deirdre O'Connell in the title role, made its New York premiere on Tuesday, February 25.
Dana H. is "one of the richest, most complete works of theater to come along in many seasons," says Ben Brantley of The New York Times. "Waters, Hnath, and O'Connell have made something intensely theatrical that reaches devastating emotional heights," declares Helen Shaw of New York Magazine. Time Out's Adam Feldman gives the production a?'a?'a?'a?'(four stars) and Theatermania's Zachary Stewart says, "Hnath's true-crime docudrama is a fascinating look at an American underworld most theatergoers will never see firsthand." Tim Teeman of The Daily Beast proclaims Dana H. "a stunning play." In Dana H., Dana was a chaplain of a psych ward where she met a charismatic patient, an ex-convict searching for redemption. A harrowing true story, Dana was held captive with her life in this man's hands - trapped in a series of Florida motels, disoriented and terrified - for five months. Told in Dana's own words and reconstructed for the stage by her son Lucas Hnath (A Doll's House Part 2, Hillary And Clinton), "one of the freshest playwriting voices to emerge in the past five years" (The New York Times), this innovative work shatters the boundaries of the art form and our understanding of good and evil with the Los Angeles Times calling it "a profound contribution to the theater."Videos