Missy Yager News

According to the cast, a prompter will be on hand for the first week of performances of THE STARRY MESSENGER. As the director/writer Kenneth Lonergan continually made changes up to the first preview performance, actors felt they would be more comfortable on stage with a line prompter in the first row to assist them if they got stuck. Due to the last minute rewrites, the cast was unable to hold a full run through with an audience prior to the first preview. The New York Times reports that during the first preview on Monday, an audience member estimated that the show's star, Matthew Broderick, called out for about 10 lines throughout the night.

The New Group will presents the world premiere of The Starry Messenger written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan as the first production in its 2009-2010 season. This production plays a limited Off-Broadway engagement from October 26 - December 12 at The New Group @ Theatre Row, with Official Opening Night now set for Monday, November 23 at 8:00 PM. This delayed opening is due to a last minute cast change (Merwin Goldsmith replaced Jonathan Hadary) as previously reported.

The New Group's production of The Starry Messenger has welcomed new cast member Merwin Goldsmith, who has replaced Jonathan Hadary. The Kenneth Lonergan play stars Matthew Broderick and Catalina Sandino Moreno, and is now set to begin previews two days after the previously scheduled date on October 26 at Theatre Row.

Additional cast and creative team members have been announced for The New Group's THE STARRY MESSENGER, starring Matthew Broderick and, as previously reported, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Oscar-nominated in 2005 for her role in 'Maria Full of Grace.'

This Is Our Youth - In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, three pot-smoking teenagers are resoundingly rejecting the 1960s ideals of their affluent parents. In hilarious and bittersweet detail, Youth follows 48 turbulent hours in the lives of three very lost souls at the dawn of the Reagan Era. Starring original New York cast members Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager in the roles that launched their careers, and directed by original director Mark Brokaw, all performances are recorded to air on LATW's syndicated radio theater series, The Play's The Thing, which broadcasts weekly on public radio stations nationwide.

This Is Our Youth - In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, three pot-smoking teenagers are resoundingly rejecting the 1960s ideals of their affluent parents. In hilarious and bittersweet detail, Youth follows 48 turbulent hours in the lives of three very lost souls at the dawn of the Reagan Era. Starring original New York cast members Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager in the roles that launched their careers, and directed by original director Mark Brokaw, all performances are recorded to air on LATW's syndicated radio theater series, The Play's The Thing, which broadcasts weekly on public radio stations nationwide.

This Is Our Youth - In 1982, on Manhattan's Upper West Side, three pot-smoking teenagers are resoundingly rejecting the 1960s ideals of their affluent parents. In hilarious and bittersweet detail, Youth follows 48 turbulent hours in the lives of three very lost souls at the dawn of the Reagan Era. Starring original New York cast members Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager in the roles that launched their careers, and directed by original director Mark Brokaw, all performances are recorded to air on LATW's syndicated radio theater series, The Play's The Thing, which broadcasts weekly on public radio stations nationwide.

Original New York cast members Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager star when L.A. Theatre Works records This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan for broadcast on LATW's nationally syndicated public radio theater series, The Play's The Thing. Five performances will be presented by L.A. Theatre Works at the Skirball Cultural Center March 18-22.

L.A. Theatre Works announced a 2008-09 season of ten plays that represent an array of theatrical genres.

Henry Winkler and Elizabeth Moss will join Jayne Atkinson, Asher Book, Jason Ritter and Missy Yager in the cast of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise. Part of the Los Angeles Theatre Works' 'The Play's The Thing' radio theatre series, performances will be held March 14-18 at the Skirball Cultural Center and recorded for future broadcast.

Marin Hinkle will replace Amy Ryan (A Streetcar Named Desire) for the final week of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, which is currently being presented at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles through October 22nd

The Geffen Playhouse will stage the West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole (starring Amy Ryan, Joyce Van Patten and Tate Donovan), the world premiere of Carrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking, Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso, and the West Coast premiere of Neil LaBute's Fat Pig, which will be directed by the playwright