The coming Off Broadway premiere of “Harper Regan,†a critically acclaimed British play about family alienation and the limits of loyalty, will star Mary McCann as the title character, one of the richest female roles on tap in New York theater this fall.
Ms. McCann, a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, worked last summer with the “Harper Regan†playwright, Simon Stephens, in the theater's production of his play “Bluebird,†which starred Simon Russell Beale. “Harper Regan†will run at the Atlantic as well, with preview performances beginning Sept. 20 and opening night on Oct. 10.
The play's casting, announced on Thursday, also includes Gareth Saxe as Harper's troubled husband, Mary Beth Peil as her brittle mother, and Madeleine Martin as Harper's precocious daughter; Ms. Martin played the pot-smoking teenage daughter in “August: Osage County†on Broadway. The other cast members are Vand it Bhatt, Christopher Innvar, Mahira Kakkar, Jordan Lage, Peter Scanavino, John Sharian and Stephen Tyrone Williams. The director is Gaye Taylor Upchurch, who also staged “Bluebird†with Ms. McCann.
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