Delroy Lindo and Roslyn Ruff to Star in NYTW's Things of Dry Hours

Tony nominee Delroy Lindo and Roslyn Ruff will co-star in New York Theatre Workshop’s forthcoming production of Naomi Wallace’s Things of Dry Hours. The play will begin previews on May 22 and open on June 8, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. The limited off-Broadway engagement is scheduled to continue through June 28.

The play tells the story of Tice Hogan Lindo, an out-of-work Sunday School teacher and member of the Communist Party in Depression-era Alabama, his daughter Cali Ruff and how their lives get turned around when they take in a mysterious white factory worker on the run.

Lindo, a 1988 Tony Award nominee for Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, will be making his first New York stage appearance in more than 20 years. His film and TV work includes The Cider House Rules, Heist, A Life Less Ordinary, The Exonerated and Kidnapped. Lindo also appeared in the HBO adaptation of Santiago-Hudson's Lackawanna Blues, directed by George C. Wolfe.

Ruff received a 2007 Obie Award for her performance in Signature Theatre Company’s revival of Seven Guitars, directed by Santiago-Hudson. She recently appeared in Coming Home at the Long Wharf Theatre and has appeared in off-Broadway productions of The Cherry Orchard, Pudd’nhead Wilson and The Taming of the Shrew.