Roundabout Revival of \'Picnic\' Finds Its Stars

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Maggie Grace, you are going to be taken - this time by a roguish but sensitive young man who carries away your heart at a memorable Labor Day gathering, in a new Broadway production of “Picnic.”

Ms. Grace, a star of the hit “Taken” thrillers, will play the young lover Madge Owens, and Sebastian Stan, of “Captain America: The First Avenger” and TV's “Once Upon a Time,” will play Hal Carter, the drifter who sweeps her off her feet, in Roundabout Theater Company's long gestating revival of that William Inge play, the theater company said on Thursday.

This production, to be directed by Sam Gold (who has recently overseen Broadway's “Seminar,” Soho Rep's “Uncle V anya” and “Circle Mirror Transformation” at Playwrights Horizons) was officially announced in March for Roundabout's 2012-13 season and has been in the works since at least 2011 as producers sought out a star-studded cast.

Among the basketful of familiar faces they recruited, this “Picnic” will also star Mare Winningham (“Hatfields & McCoys”), making her Broadway debut as Flo Owens, Madge's protective mother; Ellen Burstyn, in her first Broadway role in nearly a decade, as Helen Potts, Flo's neighbor; Elizabeth Marvel (“Other Desert Cities”) as the schoolteacher Rosemary Sydney; and Reed Birney (“Uncle Vanya”) as Rosemary's boyfriend, Howard Bevans.

The cast will also feature Madeleine Martin, Ben Rappaport, Cassie Beck, Maddie Corman and Chris Perfetti.

Previews of the Roundabout production of “Picnic” will begin at the American Airlines Theater on Dec. 14. Its opening night is scheduled for Jan. 13.