Alice Ripley & More Join Wild Animals You Should Know Off-Broadway

Tony-winner Alice Ripley will be featured in the cast of Thomas Higgins’ Wild Animals You Should Know, produced by off-Broadway’s MCC Theater. Performances begin at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on November 3, with an opening night set for November 20. Trip Cullman will direct.

Starring alongside Ripley will be John Behlmann (The 39 Steps), Patrick Breen (The Normal Heart), Gideon Glick (Spring Awakening), Jay Armstrong Johnson (Catch Me If You Can and Daniel Stewart Sherman (Desire Under the Elms).

Matthew (Johnson) and Jacob (Glick) are an unlikely pair of friends. Matthew is a soccer star, full of brio and teenage swagger. Jacob is, well, not. Beneath the surface, though, the two are locked in an innocently erotic game of cat and mouse. When Matthew's reluctant father, Walter, (Breen) is wrangled by his wife Marsha (Ripley) into chaperoning the boys' trip to a wilderness scout camp, he finds himself drawn into their adolescent game. But Matthew has secretly decided just how far he's willing to go for his final act of scouting and everyone might do well to heed the scouts' motto: Be Prepared.

The limited engagement will run through December 11.