More casting has been announced for the upcoming staged reading of the Rachel Crothers play When Ladies Meet, which will be presented on Monday, February 27 at 7 pm at the Culture Project (45 Bleecker Street). Tom Hewitt is among the actors who have joined the production.
Hewitt (Dracula, The Rocky Horror Show) will join Tony-winning actors Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza, Titanic) and Boyd Gaines (Contact, She Loves Me, The Heidi Chronicles). Also new to the cast are Lauren Hatcher, Marceline Hugo, Angela Pierce, Erika Rolsfrud, Erik Steele, and Spiff Weigand (on piano). The reading will be directed by Melvin Bernhardt (Tony for Da, nominated for Crimes of the Heart).The evening will benefit The Acting Company's education programs in New York City, including Literacy Through Theater artistic residencies, in-school productions and student matinees during the Company's New York Season."One of an Acting Company series of staged readings of rarely produced plays, When Ladies Meet's sharp, witty dialogue focuses on a publisher's mistress who unwittingly becomes friendly with the publisher's wife. When the two women get together to discuss the characters of a new book one of them is writing, they are unaware that they both love the same man—just like the characters in the novel," state press notes.Videos