Cynthia Nixon to Channel Julie Taymor in Spider-Man-Inspired Law & Order: CI Episode

Tony winner Cynthia Nixon will guest star in an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent inspired by the recent troubles of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, according to TVLine.com. Nixon will play Amanda Reese, a "high-strung and larger-than-life director" of a Broadway version of Icarus. In the episode, an actor dies onstage due to a stunt-gone-wrong.

Nixon received a Tony Award for Rabbit Hole. Her other Broadway credits include The Women, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Indiscretions, Angels in America, The Heidi Chronicles, Hurlyburly, The Real Thing and The Philadelphia Story. She has also earned Emmy Awards for Sex & the City and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Nixon's many film and TV credits include The Big C, Tanner on Tanner, Igby Goes Down and House M.D.

While no actors have died while working on Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, the musical and its director Julie Taymor received heated media attention last year when actor Christopher Tierney suffered injuries after falling from an onstage platform. Taymor has since departed the production with new director Phillip William McKinley taking over. Tierney also returned to work last month as the show began a three-week hiatus. Performances are scheduled to resume at the Foxwoods Theatre on May 12.