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THE INVENTION OF LOVE EXTENDED ONE MORE WEEK - SELL-OUT PRODUCTION WILL NOW CLOSE APRIL 2! For Immediate Release: February 24,
2000 Philadelphia, PA - Due to record-breaking sales for The Invention of Love, The Wilma Theater will extend the run of the Tom Stoppard play one final week. The extra performances will be Tuesday March 28, at 7:30pm, Wednesday March 29 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm, Thursday March 30 at 7:30pm, Friday March 31 at 8:00pm, Saturday April 1 at 8:00pm and the final performances on Sunday, April 2 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm. Critics and audience members alike are in love with The Invention of Love. "This is, hands down, Philadelphia theater's finest production not just of this season, but of many," wrote Clifford A. Ridley of the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Philadelphia Weekly states that The Invention of Love "…signals the Wilma's ascendance as a major player on the national scene." The City Paper calls it "-a daring and gorgeous theatrical risk in every possible way." The Invention of Love, explores the life of classical scholar and renowned poet A.E. Housman. Old and infirm, Housman dreams that he is dead. As Charon, the mythical boatman, ferries him across the river Styx, Housman returns to the Oxford of his youth, where he fell in love with the scholarship and with his fellow student Moses Jackson. Stoppard's dream world includes Victorian London, where parliament has made homosexuality a crime, and the French seashore, where Oscar Wilde - convicted of that very crime - is living out his final days. Tickets can be purchased by calling 215.546.7824 or online at www.wilmatheater.org. Prices range from $24 - $40. ###
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