Alicia Silverstone Joins Laura Linney in MTC's Time Stands Still

Alicia Silverstone will join previously announced star Laura Linney in Manhattan Theatre Club’s upcoming New York premiere of Donald Margulies’ Time Stands Still. The play will begin a limited engagement at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on January 5, 2010, and will open on January 28, directed by Daniel Sullivan.

Silverstone will reprise the role of a young event planner named Mandy, which she played in Time Stands Still’s February 2009 premiere production at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The male roles in the four-person drama (played in L.A. by David Harbour and Robin Thomas) and creative team for the Broadway production will be announced in the coming weeks.

Time Stands Still centers on James and Sarah (Linney), a journalist and a photographer who have been together for nine years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when injuries force them to return home to New York, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life. The play asks the question, are we supposed to deny ourselves ordinary happiness because there’s misery in the world?

Silverstone will be returning to the New York stage after her appearance in the Broadway adaptation of The Graduate and has starred in the David Mamet-directed L.A. production of Boston Marriage and in Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. Best known for her starring role in the hit film comedy Clueless, Silverstone has appeared in Kenneth Branagh’s film adaptation of Love’s Labour's Lost, The Crush, Batman & Robin, Excess Baggage and Beauty Shop. She received a Golden Globe nomination for the NBC series Miss Match.