Another Shot Comedy by Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz to Debut in New York at Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre This Fall, Starring Dan Butler

Producer Donald Cameron Clark, Jr. and Executive Producer Laura Stanczyk announced today that Another Shot, a comedy by Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz, will make its New York debut at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre (480 West 42nd Street) this fall. Performances begin on October 15, opening night is October 29, and it runs through January 4, 2025. Dan Butler (“Frasier,” “Roseanne”) stars as Harry.

Tickets will be available starting today at anothershotplay.com .

Another Shot was titled When Harry Met Rehab during a 2021 Chicago run, where it received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best New Work. It is not a production of Signature Theatre.

Personally, I am SO excited to see more storytelling entertainment about addiction hit the theater stage. You may remember that we also featured a recent production on the West Coast by Greg Ostrin, The Spy Who Went to Rehab. Additionally, I had the chance to review two other shows earlier this year in New York—Days of Wine and Roses by Craig Lucas and The White Chip, Sean Daniels’ autobiographical comedy. Shows like these raise awareness around a topic that affects so many. And by many, I can back that up with hard stats. According to a 2023 SAMHSA survey, 20.9 million adults (72.2%) who have ever had a substance use problem consider themselves to be in recovery. Additionally, 38.8 million adults (66.5%) who have ever had a mental health issue also consider themselves to be in recovery.

Another shot is a humorous and heartfelt ode to recovery and the community that makes it possible. It is based loosely on the real-life experiences of Chicago sports radio personality Harry Teinowitz, whose career and life were put in jeopardy following an arrest for DUI. Co-written by former ESPN personality and playwright Spike Manton (Leaving Iowa), Another Shot tells the outrageous, infuriating, and hilarious story of an alcoholic on the edge of blowing up his life when he finally confronts the inarguable truth of his behavior and how it is affecting his family, his life, and his liver.

The cast is Dan Butler (Harry); Chiké Johnson (Vince); Samantha Mathis (Andrea); Gregg Mozgala (Isaiah); Quentin Nguyễn-duy (George); and Portia (Barb). Jackson Gay directs.

The company is completed by T.J. Mannix (Harry/Vince understudy); Zuleyma Guevara (Barb/Andrea understudy); and Neil Redfield (Isiah/George understudy).

The creative team is Beowulf Boritt (scenic design), Mextly Couzin (lighting design), Daniel Baker (sound design), Stefania Bulbarella (projection design), and Alejo Vietti (costume design).

The stage manager is Avery Trunko, and the assistant stage manager is Rodrigo Herrera.

BIOS:

Dan Butler’s (Harry) acting credits include these favorites. Broadway: Travesties (Roundabout); Biloxi Blues (Neil Simon); The Hothouse (Broadway); Off-Broadway: Tuesdays with Morrie (Gaiety, Dublin); Lessons in Survival (Vineyard Theatre); The Weir (Irish Rep); WarholCapote (A.R.T.); The Insurgents (Labyrinth); The Only Thing Worse You Could’ve Told Me …(Actor’s Playhouse, Drama Desk/Outer Critics nominations); Beast & Emerald City (NYTW); Widow Claire (Circle in the Square downtown). Film: Blonde; Crazy Stupid Love; Karl Rove, I Love You (co-writer/director/producer); Pearl (adaptor/director); Enemy of the State; Fixing Frank; Silence of the Lambs. TV: “The Mist;” “Hey, Arnold;” “Roseanne;” and seven seasons on “Frasier” (Bulldog).

Chiké Johnson (Vince) was most recently seen at the American Players Theatre in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and King Lear. He is a resident of Chicago where he has been blessed to work on many Chicago stages and many stages around the country. Chiké is also a company member of Remy Bumppo Theatre in Chicago. Some of his recent Chicago credits include Northlight’s production of Birthday Candles, Remy Bumppo’s world premiere production of Galileo’s Daughter, Toni Stone at the Goodman Theatre, and the world premiere of When Harry Met Rehab at the Greenhouse Theater Center. Chike’s New York credits include Ruined at Manhattan Theatre Club, RunBoyRun at New York Theatre Workshop, and New York City Center’s Encores Lost in the Stars. His Broadway credits include Time to Kill and Wit.

Samantha Mathis (Andrea). A native New Yorker, Samantha Mathis has had a distinguished career in entertainment. Mathis captivated audiences in popular shows such as “Billions”, “The Strain”, “The Good Wife” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and proved her versatility in features like The Clovehitch Killer, Being Frank, and the upcoming The Exorcism with Russell Crowe. Mathis made her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s The Man Who Had All the Luck opposite Chris O’Donnell. She also starred in the Broadway production of Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations, alongside Jane Fonda. Recently, she appeared in Collected Stories at the Geffen Playhouse and Fortin Bras at the Signature Theater.

Gregg Mozgala (Isaiah).Broadway: Cost of Living. Off-Broadway: Richard III (The Public), Teenage Dick (The Public), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (New York Theatre Workshop), Cost of Living (MTC; Lucille Lortel Winner). Regional: Henry 6 (Old Globe) GameLegs, Enter the Faun (Kennedy Center). Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time & Space (La Jolla Playhouse; co-writer) and more. Honors: Drama League, Drama Desk, Outer Critic Circle nominations. Kennedy Center “Next 50” honoree. Education: B.F.A. in Theatre from Boston University. @greggmozgala on Instagram.

Quentin Nguyễn-duy (George)is a Việt-American actor, playwright, and (retired) pro bodybuilder. He recurs as Officer Eric Tran on “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC), played the series regular role of Richie Ngo on the Freeform pilot “Aznbbgrl” (Hulu), and appeared on “The Endgame” (NBC), and “Bull” (CBS). Past theatre credits include Quang Nguyễn in Vietgone (Company One), Ralph Chun in American Hwangap (IAA Shakespeare Festival), and Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night (Oberlin College). He is repped by Innovative Artists, Entertainment Lab, holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at UCSD. IG: @quentin_nguyenduy.

Portia (Barb). Theater: Redwood (Ensemble Studio Theatre), To Kill A Mockingbird (Broadway), Stew (Walkerspace, World Premiere, Pulitzer Finalist), The Rose Tattoo (Broadway), Rinse, Repeat (Pershing Square Linney Theatre), Ruined (MTC/Geffen Playhouse), McReele (Roundabout), LAByrinth Theatre Company: Our Lady of 121st St., In Arabia We’d All Be Kings. Regional/International: The Master’s Tools (Wien Festwochen, Vienna Austria) A Midsummer Night’s Dream In Harlem (Pittsburgh Public Theater) Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination/don’t get got and Artney Jackson (Williamstown); Sweat (Mark Taper), Fences (Long Wharf & McCarter), Film: Intervention, Lapsis, All The Little Things We Kill, Skin, From Nowhere, St. Vincent, The Greatest, The Messenger, Please Give. Television: “Diarra from Detroit,” “New Amsterdam,” “Big Dogs,” “Madam Secretary,” “Bull,” “She’s Gotta Have It,” “The Blacklist.”

Zuleyma Guevara (Barb/Andrea understudy). Theatre: Cebollas (Denver Center Theater Co.), Sancocho(WP Theater), A Doll’s House P2 (Actors Theatre Louisville), Quail (Clubbed Thumb), Somewhere (Geva Theater), Freedom Seas (Atlantic Theatre), Seven Spots On The Sun (Cincinnati Playhouse), De Novo (NYTW), The Othello Project (Florida Shakespeare), Grand Horizons (People’s Theater), Bruise and Thorn (Pipeline Theatre), Water By The Spoonful (Premier Stages), La Ruta (Working Theatre). Television: “FBI Most Wanted,” “Designated Survivor,” “Gotham,” “Law & Order SVU,” “Limitless.” Film: The Meal, Tumba Del Mar.

T.J. Mannix (Harry/Vince understudy) (he/him). Based in NYC, he has tackled everything from Santa Claus (Radio City) to soaps (OLTL, AMC, ATWT) to serial killers (too many). TV: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Conan O’Brien.” He has toured the world with The Second City and with his award-winning, one-man improvised musical LimboLand. T.J. admits to spending a very dark year as a Mouseketeer. Faculty – Circle in the Square NYC, NYFA. Actor’s Equity. Thanks to the Gang at Avalon Artists Group.

Neil Redfield (Isiah/George understudy) is an actor, writer, and improvisor based in NYC. Theatre: The Flea, Dallas Theatre Center, The Barnstormers, Berkshire Theater Group, The REP at UD. Favorite credits include Oswald: The Actual Interrogation (Lee Harvey Oswald), Liz Swados’ The Nomad (wp), and Hamlet (Hamlet). TV: The Gilded Age. Neil also writes plays, solo performances, and films (www.neilredfield.com/works). Improv for charity with The Bisque (@_thebisque), pursuing an MA in audience research at NYU. Honored to be part of this play. Endless gratitude to Brandon and Joan.

Jackson Gay (Director).Jackson’s recent work: Jennifer Maisel’s Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020 (Lucille Lortel); Into the Breeches (Gulfshore Playhouse); Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home (world premiere co-production Berkeley Rep and Goodman Theatre); Endless Loop of Gratitude (New Ohio and New Neighborhood www.newneighborhood.net); Lucy Thurber’s Transfers for Audible, MCC, and New York Stage & Film; These Paper Bullets! by Rolin Jones with music by Billie Joe Armstrong (New Neighborhood, Atlantic, Geffen, Yale Rep). Upcoming: new country music musical Hard Road (book by Willy Holtzman, music by Marty Dodson and David Spangler). MFA Directing Yale School of Drama. www.jacksongracegay.com

Spike Manton (Co-writer) turned to standup comedy after college. He worked all over the country and appeared on seven national TV shows. Comedy opened the door to radio, and Spike hosted the afternoon show on ESPN Radio in Chicago with his good friend Harry Teinowitz. While on the radio, Spike wrote his first play with Tim Clue, Leaving Iowa, which premiered at Jeff Daniels’ Purple Rose Theater and was nominated for Best New Play. About five years ago, Harry brought Spike the first 100 pages of his working book about his eight weeks in rehab. They decided to turn it into a play, and given their shared history in standup and recovery, a comedy about rehab was created. They were fortunate to connect with Don Clark, who somehow produced a magical premiere run in Chicago in the post-pandemic chaos and is now taking the show to New York. Spike still lives outside Chicago near his two children, Mickey, and Samantha, with his wife of 35 happy years, Tami.

Harry Teinowitz (Co-writer) spent 25 years co-hosting some of the most highly acclaimed sports radio shows on Chicago’s marquee stations. In addition, Harry toured the United States for seven years as a stand-up comic. He co-starred in the cult movie classic Mad Magazine Presents: Up the Academy and was featured in Risky Business, The Package, and Return to Me. Harry’s play offers an intensely personal and self-deprecating peek into the harsh reality of his addiction rehab journey. As it turns out, both honesty and humor play leading roles in both achieving and maintaining sobriety. According to Harry, if he can do it, anyone can!

Beowulf Boritt (Scenic Design) 31 Broadway designs include the Tony Award-winning sets for New York, New York, and Act One, the Tony-nominated sets for The Scottsboro Boys, Therese Raquin, POTUS, and Flying Over Sunset, and also The Piano Lesson, Come from Away, Freestyle Love Supreme. 100 Off-Broadway shows include Shakespeare in the Park (Hamlet, Much Ado, Merry Wives, Coriolanus), The Last Five Years, The Connector, Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk with Me, and Miss Julie. Author: Transforming Space Over Time, about Broadway set design. Founder of The 1/52 Project, providing grants to early career designers from historically excluded groups

Mextly Couzin (Lighting Design). Recent credits include Broadway: JOB. Off-Broadway: N/A, Fiasco Theatre’s Pericles, A Good Day to Me Not to You, Here We Are (ALD), Straight Line Crazy, peerless, Tambo & Bones; Regional: Baltimore Center Stage, Seattle Opera, The Old Globe, Woolly Mammoth, Centro de Bellas Artes Puerto Rico. International: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Nuits de Fourvière. 2023 recipient of The 1/52 Project grant. MFA University of California, San Diego ’20. mextlycouzin.com

Daniel Baker (Sound Design) is a sound designer/composer/producer and educator living in New City, NY. He is a founding member of Daniel Baker & Co., an audio production company that creates sound designs and music for theater, film, dance, and other endeavors across the media spectrum. Daniel has designed sound for over 200 productions on Broadway and Off-Broadway, and at regional theaters across the country. He holds an MFA in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama and teaches at Barnard College and Berklee NYC.

Stefania Bulbarella (Projection Design) is a projections designer from Argentina based in NY. Broadway: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (MTC). Off-Broadway: Space Dogs (MCC), Travels (Ars Nova), A Bright New Boise and The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre), Semblance (New York Theatre Workshop), amongst others. Awards: Hola Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Design for Vamonos. Nominations: 2024 Tony Nominee for her work on Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Video/Projection Design for Space Dogs. www.stefaniabulbarella.com

Alejo Vietti (Costume Design). Originally from Argentina. NYC credits include Broadway’s Holiday Inn, The New Irving Berlin Musical; Allegiance (Drama Desk Award nomination); and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (also national tour, West End -Olivier Award nomination, Australia, Japan and UK tour). Currently Titanique (Lucille Lortel Award). He has designed for the Radio City Rockettes, Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, NYC Opera, Second Stage, Atlantic Theater Company, and NY Theatre Workshop, among others. International: West Side Story world tour, Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Japan, Germany, and Austria, Donesk Opera (Ukraine). Recipient of the 2010 TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. @alejo_vietti_costume_design

Donald Cameron Clark, Jr. (Producer) is a renaissance man who believes in the power of storytelling, whether to a jury, in a theater, or to his grandchildren. Clark began his professional career as a trial attorney at some of Chicago’s most venerable law firms. His memoir, Summary Judgment, was recently published. Clark is Executive Producer of the award-winning feature film “Guest Artist,” written by and starring Jeff Daniels. He produces plays on Broadway and in regional theaters. Clark co-owns the Chicago Magic Lounge—a nightlife venue that is top-rated on TripAdvisor and one of “Chicago’s Best,” according to Chicago Magazine.

Laura Stanczyk (Executive Producer). Consulting producer for the premier of Another Shot at Chicago’s Greenhouse Theatre. With partner Jack Viertel, she developed Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham as a musical. Director of new works at Chicago’s Drury Lane Theatre, where she debuted premieres of musical adaptations of Beaches and Hazel. From 2005-2010, she helped to shape multiple award-winning seasons at McCarter Theatre Center, including the premieres of Eclipsed, Stick Fly, The Brother Sister Plays, Fetch Clay Make Man, and Edward Albee’s Me Myself & I. Also an award-winning casting director with hundreds of Broadway, off-Broadway, international, touring and regional credits.

The Pershing Square Signature Center, the permanent home of Signature Theatre, is a three-theatre facility on West 42nd Street designed by Frank Gehry Architects to host Signature’s three distinct playwrights residencies and foster a cultural community. The Center is a major contribution to New York City’s cultural landscape and provides a venue for cultural organizations that support and encourage collaboration among artists throughout the space. In addition to its three intimate theatres, the Center features a studio theatre, a rehearsal studio, a bookstore, and the Signature Cafe+ Bar, open to the public from noon to midnight Tuesdays -to Sundays. For more information on renting the Center, please visit www.signaturetheatre.org/rent-ou r-space.

PLAYING SCHEDULE/TICKETING/RUNNING TIME:

·        The playing schedule is Tuesday through Friday at 7 PM, Saturday at 2 & 7 PM, and Sunday at 2 & 7 PM.

·       Tickets will be available starting today at anothershotplay.com

·        Another Shot runs 90 minutes.

A Curated List of Reviews from the Chicago Run of Another Shot

Here are some links for the play “Another Shot” by Spike Manton and Harry Teinowitz when it ran in Chicago:

1. Another Shot: A Comedy Play – Chicago, IL

2. Review: Another Shot at The Greenhouse Theater Center

3. Another Shot Review – Theatre In Chicago

4. Harry Teinowitz and Spike Manton’s Another Shot – Broadway World Chicago

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