Schreiber and Gugino Join Brian Dennehy in B'way-Bound Desire Under the Elms

News By Broadway.com Staff September 25, 2008 - 11:11AM

Carla Gugino and Pablo Schreiber will join previously announced star Brian Dennehy in a Chicago revival of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, according to Variety. The production, reportedly Broadway-bound, will run from January 17 to February 22, 2009, at the Goodman Theater, helmed by its artistic director, Robert Falls.

Written in 1924 and based on Greek tragedy, Desire Under the Elms tells the story of widower Ephraim Cabot Dennehy, who returns to the family farm with a young wife, Abbie Gugino; Abbie falls madly inlove with Ephraim's son, Eben Schreiber, with tragic consequences.

Gugino, known for playing an agent on TV's Entourage, stars alongside Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in the current crime film Righteous Kill, which also features Dennehy. She starred in the Roundabout's 2006 off-Broadway revival of Suddenly Last Summer and in its 2004 Broadway revival of All My Sons.

Schreiber received a 2006 Tony nomination for the Broadway revival of Awake and Sing! and had been announced as a cast member of the upcoming Broadway transfer of Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty. Other recent off-Broadway credits include Dying City and Mr. Marmalade.

Falls directed Dennehy in his Tony Award-winning performances in Death of a Salesman and Long Day's Journey Into Night, and they have worked together many times at the Goodman. Desire Under the Elms is the centerpiece of this season's O'Neill festival at the Goodman.

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