Michael McKean Signs On as Our Town's Stage Manager

Broadway and movie vet Michael McKean will join the cast of the hit off-Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town on June 2 as the Stage Manager. He replaces Michael Shannon, who gave his final performance on May 23. During the interim, Robert Beitzel will play the Stage Manager. Our Town continues its run at the Barrow Street Theatre, directed by David Cromer.

McKean most recently starred in the Broadway production of Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts. Other Broadway credits include The Pajama Game, The Homecoming, Hairspray and Accomplice. Off-Broadway, he appeared in Woody Allen’s A Second Hand Memory. McKean is known for his leading role in the movie (and band) This Is Spinal Tap and for the films of Christopher Guest, including A Mighty Wind and Best in Show.

The complete cast of Our Town includes Elizabeth Audley as Mrs. Soames, Robert Beitzel as Howie Newsome, Kati Brazda as Mrs. Webb, Will Brill as Joe Crowell Jr., Nathan Dame as Sam Craig, Roger E. DeWitt as Joe Stoddard, Donna Jay Fulks as Mrs. Gibbs, Emma Galvin as Rebecca Gibbs, Jennifer Grace as Emily Webb, Wilbur Edwin Henry as Professor Willard, Mark Hattan as Constable Warren, Ben Livingston as Doc Gibbs, David Manis as Mr. Webb, Jonathan Mastro as Simon Stimson, Michael McKean as the Stage Manager, James McMenamin as George Gibbs, Seamus Mulcahy as Wally Webb, Jason Yachanin as Si Crowell, with Dana Jacks, Lynn Laurence, Kathleen Peirce, Keith Perry and Mark Shock.

Our Town opened on February 26, 2009, and sent on to win the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Direction and Obie Award for Outstanding Director. In December 2009, it became the longest-running production of the play in its 72-year history.