As Anna in Spring Awakening, Phoebe Strole was a sympathetic onstage presence but never really front-and-center. That’s certainly changed with her current star turn in The Metal Children, Adam Rapp’s timely drama about a banned young-adult novel. Cast as a precocious 16-year-old determined to live out the plotline of her favorite book, Strole holds her own in difficult ...

It took a special role to lure Tony winner (and busy film star) Billy Crudup back to the stage—and Adam Rapp provided one in his new drama The Metal Children. Crudup plays down-at-the-heels writer Tobin Falmouth, whose young-adult novel has been banned by a small-town high school. When he travels to the town to defend his work, he meets ...

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The hot-button topic of book-banning has been transformed into an absorbing new drama, The Metal Children, now playing at off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre in a production starring Tony winner Billy Crudup. Playwright/director Adam Rapp was inspired by a personal brush with censorship: Five years ago, a school in Reading, PA, locked away (literally!) copies of The ...

In an exciting theatrical matchup, Tony Award winner Billy Crudup is starring in Adam Rapp’s new drama The Metal Children at off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theatre. Inspired by an incident from Rapp’s own life, the play deals with what happens when the author of a young adult novel that’s been banned by a small-town school board travels to ...

You never know where Billy Crudup will turn up: in a Broadway thriller (The Pillowman) or historical drama (his Tony-winning turn in The Coast of Utopia); in a super-hero movie (Watchmen) or romantic comedy (the forthcoming Eat, Pray, Love). Off-Broadway audiences will soon see the versatile star playing the author of a banned young-adult novel in Adam Rapp’s explosive ...

Complete casting has been announced for the Vineyard Theatre’s forthcoming world premiere production of Adam Rapp’s The Metal Children, starring the previously announced Billy Crudup. The play will begin previews on May 4 and open off-Broadawy on May 19, directed by the playwright.

In addition to Crudup, the cast will include Betsy Aidem (Mary Rose, Steel Magnolias), Connor ...

Tony winner Billy Crudup will star in the world premiere of Adam Rapp's The Metal Children. The new work, directed by the author, will begin performances on May 4 and open on May 19, 2010 at the Vineyard Theatre.

Crudup made his professional stage debut at the Vineyard Theatre in 1994 in Chiori Miyagawa's America Dreaming, directed by ...