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Two hit-men. A basement. An assignment.
A tragicomic steampunk mystery.

With: Louis Ozawa Changchien and Stephen Park

Featuring the music of Minq Vaadka

Directed by Andrew Pang

Written by Harold Pinter


A short Pinter piece will precede each performance, performed by special guest stars. The "curtain raisers" will include some of Pinter's best short works, among them:

Trouble in the Works, The Black and White, Request Stop, Last to Go, Special Offer,
Night, That's Your Trouble, That's All,
and Dialogue for Three

Performed by Cindy Cheung, Jackie Chung, Joel de la Fuente, Andrew Eisenman, Jennifer Ikeda, Peter Kim, Sue Jean Kim, Ken Leung, Orville Mendoza, Alfredo Narciso, Nicky Paraiso, Kelly Coffield Park, Debargo Sanyal, Jon Norman Schneider, Ching Valdes-Aran, Tiffany Villarin, and James Yaegashi, among others.

Complete curtain raiser schedule and casts HERE


Joseph M. Gourley (set design)
Adam Cochran (sound design)
Stephen Petrilli (lighting design)
Michael G. Chin (fight choreography)
Charley Layton (dialect coach)
Olivera Gajic (costume design)
Kate Katigbak (postcard design)
William P. Steele (photos)
Ed Herman(stage manager)

October 6, 2011 - November 6, 2011
Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:00pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Wednesday 10/26 and 11/2 at 8:00pm

Duo Theatre
62 East Fourth Street - btw 2nd/3rd Avenues
(4, 6 train to Bleeker St; F train to 2nd Ave)


Tickets: $25
Previews October 6 - 10: $20
(212) 868-4444

Pinter's subtlety isn't easy to perform. Direct the work too reverently and you'll end up with a boring, turgid mess; play it too lightly and the result is a strangely paced farce. I'm happy to report that in the National Asian American Theatre Company's production of Pinter's one act masterpiece The Dumb Waiter, director Andrew Pang makes neither mistake. The resulting production is an excellent one indeed. (Gregory Wilson, Curtain Up)

Fantastical, funny and slightly disturbing, NAATCO's The Dumb Waiter is a good aperitif to an evening out, at least something to whet your appetite for more productions by NAATCO. (Elise McMullen, Show Business Weekly)

The NAATCO production is a great success. I've rarely heard this much laughter in a Pinter production, and it admirably was not forced but instead was mined from the text. There is certainly something exciting about seeing this work realized with gusto, and what's more, it's part of an enjoyable evening. (Stephen Cedars, NYTheatre.com)

Actors appear courtesy of Actors Equity Association.

This production is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

© 2000 - 2011 by The National Asian-American Theatre Company