Laura Linney & Seth Numrich Tapped for Joanna Murray-Smith’s Switzerland in Los Angeles

We're anything but neutral in our excitement about this one! Stage and screen star Laura Linney will headline the U.S. premiere of Joanna Murray-Smith’s Switzerland in L.A. The drama, also starring Seth Numrich, will begin previews on March 6 and run through April 19 at the Geffen Playhouse. Opening night is set for March 13.

Linney received Tony nods for Time Stands Still, Sight Unseen and The Crucible. She also garnered three Oscar nominations for her work in You Can Count on Me, Kinsey and The Savages. Numrich has appeared on Broadway in Golden Boy, War Horse and The Merchant of Venice.

Switzerland follows acclaimed novelist Patricia Highsmith, who is racing to finish her latest thriller when an attractive young man interrupts her work. When might the publishers expect the next anticipated addition to her sinister “Mr. Ripley” series? The author’s real-life dry humor and macabre imagination meet with this mysterious character’s own darkly seductive agenda in this new two-hander.