'Stick Fly' to shut

Broadway play "Stick Fly," which has not handled to stay with Broadway auds, will shutter later this month. New abide by Lydia R. Gemstone gained lukewarm-to-reviews that are positive, but despite a cast of identifiable faces along with a creating assist from Alicia Secrets, the development demonstrated not able to sustain B.O. inside a Broadway season which has formed as much as be abnormally crowded with new plays. Because the show started previews November. 20, weekly B.O. only has rare capped $300,000. In recent days, weekly attendance has hovered in the plethora of 60%. Dule Hill, Mekhi Pfifer, Tracie Thomas, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Rosie Benton and Condola Rashad star inside a staging helmed by Kenny Leon, whose Rialto manufacture of Samuel L. Jackson-Angela Bassett topliner "The Mountaintop" appeared its run recently. "Stick Fly," in regards to a well-to-do Black family investing a weekend at their summer time home in Martha's Winery, required a circuitous path to Broadway, bowing in Chicago in 2006. The title continued being frequently created at U.S. regionals in metropolitan areas including L.A. and Princeton just before a Leon-helmed co-production from Boston's Huntington Theater and D.C.'s Arena Stage. Broadway version of this co-production develops from a creating team which includes Nelle Nugent, Secrets, Samuel Nappi, Reuben Cannon, Charles Salameno and also the Huntington, amongst others. "Stick Fly" shuts February. 26 in the Cort Theater. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com