Tony Winner Billy Crudup to Star in Adam Rapp's The Metal Children

Tony winner Billy Crudup will star in the world premiere of Adam Rapp's The Metal Children. The new work, directed by the author, will begin performances on May 4 and open on May 19, 2010 at the Vineyard Theatre.

Crudup made his professional stage debut at the Vineyard Theatre in 1994 in Chiori Miyagawa's America Dreaming, directed by Michael Mayer. He won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor is a Play for his performance in The Coast Of Utopia. He earned Tony Award nominations for his work in The Pillowman and The Elephant Man. His other Broadway credits include Three Sisters, Bus Stop and Arcadia. His many film credits include Grind, Sleepers, Everyone Says I Love You, Inventing the Abbotts, Monument Avenue, Without Limits, Waking the Dead, Jesus' Son, Almost Famous, Big Fish, Stage Beauty, Mission Impossible III, Watchmen and Public Enemies.

The Metal Children is a drama about a New York writer (Crudup) and his explosive encounter with a small American town that he travels to in order to defend one of his young adult novels, which has been banned by the local school board. The controversy ignites heated emotions over religious beliefs and censorship.

Additional casting for The Metal Children is still to be announced.