True Blood's Chris Bauer joins cast of Something Wicked This Way Comes 10/25

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey announced today that Chris Bauer who plays Andy Bellefleur on the hit HBO series True Blood will appear in Something Wicked This Way Comes - a one-night-only event - on Monday, October 25 at 7:30 p.m. The event kicks off Halloween week and will be held at the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre in Madison.

Tickets are $32 and can be purchased online at www.ShakespeareNJ.org or by phone by calling the Shakespeare Theatre box office at 973-408-5600.

Titled from a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth, Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 90-minute, delightfully bone-chilling evening, and also features esteemed actors from The Shakespeare Theatre including Judith Anna Roberts (Eraserhead, Dead Silence), Robert Cuccioli (Broadway's Jekyll and Hyde), and other Broadway and Shakespeare Theatre veterans including David Andrew Macdonald, Derin Altay Gemignani and Roxanna Hope. The event - a collage of dramatic readings from horror and ghost classics, haunting music, an atmospheric soundscape, and other surprise "treats" - will feature excerpts from Shakespeare, Poe, and other classics from the horror/ghost story genre.

In addition to his current role as the detective Andy Bellefleur on the award-winning True Blood, Chris Bauer has appeared in scores of television shows including The Good Wife, Life on Mars, and Fringe as well as the feature films Face Off, 8MM and The Devil's Advocate.

Keith Hamilton Cobb, previously announced as a cast member, had to withdraw due to a scheduling conflict.

Providing the haunting music for this unique evening is musician/composer John Hoge playing the theremin. The theremin was one of the very first electronic instruments, and was invented in Russia in the early 1900s by Lev Termen. It is the only musical instrument played without physical contact. The theremin was "discovered" by film composers in the first half of the 20th century, and its sound became an iconic signature of such scores as Spellbound and The Day the Earth Stood Still, and was eventually heard in hundreds of B movies. Now enjoying a resurgence in popularity, the theremin is used by rock bands and on the symphonic concert stage.

A well-known, professional thereminist, Hoge has performed with the New York Theremin Society. He is the editor of ThereminWorld.com and is heard on Spellbound the internet radio theremin show. He played theremin on stage in Looking for Limbo part of the American Living Room Festival 2006 and Theremin in the New York Fringe Festival 2007. He has composed music and worked as sound designer for various theatres including The Public Theatre NYC, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and Indiana Repertory Theater. For many years he worked as an organist and conductor in New York City churches.

Tickets for Something Wicked This Way Comes are $32 and are now on sale. To purchase tickets, or for more information, call 97-408-5600 or visit www.ShakespeareNJ.org. Something Wicked This Way Comes will be performed at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre, 36 Madison Avenue (at Lancaster Road) in Madison.

The acclaimed Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is an independent, professional theatre company located on the Drew University campus. One of the leading Shakespeare theatres in the nation, serving 100,000 adults and children annually, it is New Jersey's only professional theatre company dedicated solely to Shakespeare's canon and other world classics. Through its distinguished productions and education programs, the company strives to illuminate the universal and lasting relevance of the classics for contemporary audiences.