“The Exonerated,†a critically-acclaimed play about wrongfully-convicted survivors of death row, which had star-filled casts for its Off Broadway run from 2002 to 2004, will return for a seven-week run starting Sept. 15 at the Culture Project, its artistic director announced on Thursday. The production will once again feature a rotating cast of stars â€" including Stockard Channing, Brian Dennehy and Brooke Shields â€" who will read accounts by former death row inmates.
During the week of Sept. 24, the cast will include Sunny Jacobs, one of the six real-life former inmates whose stories are included in “The Exonerated.â€
Also rotating into the cast will be John E. Forté, a Grammy-nominated musician whose drug trafficking conviction and imprisonment became a cause celebre for Carly Simon and other artists; Mr. Forté's prison sentence was commuted by President Bush in 2008. Mr. Fort é is not playing himself in this production, which will use the original “Exonerated†script by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, who based the play on interviews, letters, transcripts, and court records of individuals on death row.
The production is scheduled to run through Nov. 4, though it could extend if ticket sales are successful. It will be directed by Bob Balaban, who staged the original at the Culture Project, which specializes in works with political and human-rights themes. The production will be mounted in the same space where it ran 10 years ago, at the 45 Bleecker St. theater venue in Greenwich Village. The Culture Project left the venue in 2006 but returned there this past winter when the space became available again, a spokesman for the Culture Project said.
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