Another round of casting has been announced for Playwrights Horizons' 2006-2007 season, which will feature performances by Kristine Nielsen, Peter Weller, Harris Yulin and more.
The season kicks off on September 1st with the New York premire of Bruce Norris' The Pain and the Itch, starring the previously-announced Jayne Houdyshell (Well), as well as Mia Barron, Aya Cash, Peter Jay Fernandez, Reg Rogers, and Christopher Evan Welch, among others. Anna D. Shapiro directs the play. "With a young daughter in serious need of attention and a ravenous creature possibly prowling the upstairs bedrooms, what begins as an average Thanksgiving for one privileged family unravels into an exposé of disastrous choices and less-than-altruistic motives," state press notes.Reg E. Cathey (The Green Bird, Fool's Fire, "The Wire") and recent NYU Acting Program Graduate Andre Holland (Shakespeare in the Park As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing) will headline the New York premiere of Tanya Barfield's Blue Door, directed by Leigh Silverman (Well) and running from September 28th through October 29th. "When a prominent African-American mathematician in crisis begins to lose his grip on reality, the ghosts of ancestors past shatter the serenity of an insomnia-filled night. Blue Door is a tour-de-force for two actors, a vivid, exuberantly theatrical play about the black American male experience. The show will play the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre.Videos