Water by the Spoonful extends by 2 weeks

Second Stage Theatre's production ofQuiara Alegría Hudes' 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Water by the Spoonful extends its run by two weeks, and will now play through to 10 Feb 2013.

The play opened at Second Stage Theatre on 08 Jan 2013, following previews from 11 Dec 2013, and was originally scheduled to close on 27 Jan 2013.

"I am incredibly proud of this production and am thrilled that we are able to extend for two more weeks," said Artistic Director Carole Rothman. "Quiara is one of the strongest new playwrights to emerge in the past decade and I am very happy that audiences will have more opportunity to experience the rich characters and singular world she has created with this play."

The show opened to mixed, but mostly positive reviews reviews: Gives off a shimmering, sustaining warmth (NY Times); Never rises above lukewarm (New York Post); A worthwhile play that holds your interest (Newsroom Jersey).

Water by the Spoonful: Elliot, a Puerto Rican veteran of the Iraq War, returns home to Philadelphia haunted by demons from the past, his family in flux, and his only career prospect at the local Subway sandwich shop. When his mother's online support group begins to overshadow his aspirations for the future, the real and online worlds - one forged by blood, another by survival - collide.

Water by the Spoonful is the second in a trilogy of plays that began with Hudes' 'Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue,' a play about a young Marine coming to terms with his time in Iraq and his father's and grandfather's service in Vietnam and Korea. The third play in the trilogy, 'The Happiest Song Plays Last,' is scheduled to make its world premiere in Apr 2013 at The Goodman Theatre in Chicago.

Directed by Davis McCallum, the play stars Liza Colon-Zayas (Odessa Ortiz), Frankie R. Faison (Chutes & Ladders), Armando Reisco (Elliot Ortiz), Bill Heck (Fountainhead), Zabryna Guevara (Yazmin Ortiz), Sue Jean Kim (Orangutan) and Ryan Shams (Policeman/Professor Aman/Ghost).

The creative team includes sets by Neil Patel, costumes by ESosa, lighting by Russell Champa and sound by Joshua Schmidt.