(New Brunswick, NJ) -- George Street
Playhouse and Artistic Director David Saint have announced final casting
for the world premiere production of Clever Little Lies by Tony
Award-winning playwright Joe DiPietro. Joining the award-winning stage
and screen actress Marlo Thomas are: Greg Mullavey (TV's "I-Carly" and
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman); Jim Stanek (Freud's Last Session
off-Broadway, The Story of My Life, Lestat on Broadway) and Kate
Wetherhead (Broadway's Legally Blonde, web series Submissions Only).
George Street Playhouse Artistic Director David Saint will helm the
production, which begins performances Tuesday, November 19 and continues
through Sunday, December 22. Opening night is set for Friday, November
22.
A mother always knows when something's up. Bill Jr. is
distracted, under pressure and off his game. Will a surprising evening
with his parents send him further off-kilter? Secrets are exposed and
clever little lies are crafted when a confidence shared between father
and son escalates into an unexpected revelation that could change everything.
Individual
tickets for Clever Little Lies, beginning at $38, are on sale, as are
subscription and flexible admission packages. Contact the George Street
Playhouse Box Office at 732-246-7717 or visit the Playhouse website, www.GSPonline.org
, to purchase tickets, or receive show information and parking and
dining recommendations. George Street Playhouse is located at 9
Livingston Avenue in the heart of New Brunswick's vibrant downtown
scene, steps away from public transportation, parking and dining of
every cuisine and budget.
Marlo Thomas has appeared on Broadway in
The Shadow Box, Social Security, Thieves and last season's, Relatively
Speaking, written by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May.
Off-Broadway: The Vagina Monologues, The Guys and The Exonerated (which
she also performed in Chicago and Boston). National Tour: Six Degrees of
Separation. Regional theatre: Paper Doll, Pittsburgh Public Theater;
Woman in Mind, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, Hartford Stage; The Effect Of Gamma Rays, Cleveland Playhouse.
London West End: Barefoot in the Park. Ms. Thomas has appeared in more
than a dozen distinguished television movies, including Nobody's Child,
for which she won the Emmy for Best Dramatic Actress. Numerous TV guest
appearances including Ugly Betty, Friends and Law & Order. Films
include: Playing Mona Lisa, The Real Blonde, Dust and Stardust, In the
Spirit, Thieves, Jenny and LOL., co-starring Miley Cyrus and Demi
Moore. Ms. Thomas created the Free to BeYou and Me TV specials, books
and records, as well as the bestselling books, The Right Words at the
Right Time, Volumes 1 and 2, and Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the
Story of Funny. She starred in and produced the groundbreaking That
Girl, television's first comedy series about a single, independent
woman. She has been honored with four Emmys, nine Emmy nominations, the
Peabody, the Golden Globe and the Grammy, and has been inducted into the
Broadcasting Hall of Fame. Ms. Thomas has performed at George Street
Playhouse in Elaine May's Roger Is Dead and Arthur Laurents' New Year's
Eve.
Greg Mullavey is well-known to TV viewers for his roles on
Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, in which he played Louise Lasser's husband,
and on the Nickelodian series iCarly. Other television credits include
The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Bold and the Beautiful,
ER, JAG and many others. He was also seen on Broadway in Rumors and
Romantic Comedy.
Jim Stanek Broadway: Story of My Life, Lestat,
Little Women, The Rivals, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum, Indiscretions. Off-Broadway: I Love You, You're Perfect Now
Change, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Slut,
Saturday Night and others. Regional credits include appearances at the
Guthrie, Signature Theatre, North Shore Music Theater, The Kennedy
Center, McCarter, Williamstown Theatre Festival and many others.
Kate
Wetherhead is the co-creator, writer, director and star of Submissions
Only, an online sitcom currently gearing up for its third season ( www.submissionsonly.com
). Broadway credits: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and
Legally Blonde. Off-Broadway credits include The Other Josh Cohen
(2013 Drama Desk Nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical),
Ordinary Days, Sarah, Plain and Tall and Tatjana in Color. Regionally,
Kate has performed at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House,
Dallas Theater Center, John W. Engeman Theater, Skylight Opera Theater
and Saint Michael's Playhouse. Coming up: The Other Josh Cohen at Paper
Mill Playhouse (February 2014).
Kate is currently writing a
children's book series for The Penguin Group with collaborator Andrew
Keenan-Bolger. She is thrilled to be making her George Street Playhouse
debut.
Joe DiPietro won the 2012 Drama Desk Award and was
nominated for a Tony Award for Best Book for the recent Broadway hit
Nice Work If You Can Get It. He won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best
Score for Memphis, which was also awarded the 2010 Tony Award, Drama
Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. His other
shows include All Shook Up; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (the
longest-running musical revue in off-Broadway history); The Toxic
Avenger and The Thing About Men (both winners of the Outer Critics
Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical). His plays include the
much-produced Over the River and Through the Woods, The Art of Murder
(Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Play), Creating Claire and The Last
Romance. His work has been produced thousands of times across the
country and around the world. Two previous works have had their
premeires at George Street Playhouse: The Toxic Avenger and Creating
Claire.
This is David Saint's sixteenth season as Artistic
Director of George Street Playhouse. In that time he has directed
thirty-one mainstage productions, most recently, Good People, Twelve
Angry Men , The Nutcracker and I , God of Carnage, Fox on the Fairway,
Creating Claire, and Sylvia. His time here has been marked by
collaborations with such artists as Keith Carradine, Tyne Daly, Rachel
Dratch, Sandy Duncan, Boyd Gaines, A.R. Gurney, Uta Hagen, Jack Klugman,
Dan Lauria, Kathleen Marshall, Anne Meara, David Hyde Pierce, Chita
Rivera, Paul Rudd, Stephen Sondheim, Marlo Thomas, Eli Wallach and many
others including a remarkable partnership with Arthur Laurents. In
addition many new award- winning works have begun their life here during
his tenure, such as The Toxic Avenger, Proof, The Spitfire Grill and It
Shoulda Been You. He most recently directed the National Tour of West
Side Story and has also directed on Broadway, off-Broadway and
regionally at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary
Stages, McCarter, Williamstown, Seattle Rep, Pasadena Playhouse,
Pittsburgh Public, Long Wharf and many others on premieres by writers
such as Aaron Sorkin, Wendy Wasserstein, Peter Parnell, Jonathan Marc
Sherman, Joe Di Pietro and Jonathan Larson. He is the recipient of the
Alan Schneider Award, Helen Hayes Award, L.A. Drama Critics Award,
several Drama Logue Awards and is the President of The Laurents/Hatcher
Foundation.
Under the
leadership of Artistic Director David Saint since 1998, George Street
Playhouse is a nationally recognized theatre, presenting an acclaimed
mainstage season while providing an artistic home for established and
emerging theatre artists. Founded in 1974, the Playhouse has been
represented by numerous productions both on and off-Broadway. Recent
productions include The Toxic Avenger (Outer Critics Circle Award for
Best New Musical), Anne Meara's Down the Garden Paths, the Outer Critics
Circle, Drama Desk and Drama League nominated production of The
Spitfire Grill and the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof
by David Auburn, which was developed at GSP during the 1999 Next Stage
Series of new plays. In addition to its mainstage season, GSP's
Touring Theatre features four issue-oriented productions and tours to
more than 250 schools in the tri-state area, and are seen by more than
60,000 students annually. George Street Playhouse programming is made
possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the
Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for
the Arts, and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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