Casting Announced for Two MCC Plays: Still Life and Family Week

Casting has been announced for MCC Theater’s 2009-2010 productions of Alexander Dinelaris’ Still Life and Pulitzer Prize winner Beth Henley’s Family Week. The world premiere of Sill Life, directed by Will Frears, will begin previews at the Lucille Lortel Theatre on September 16, with opening set for October 5. The limited engagement runs through November 1. Family Week, directed by Jonathan Demme, takes the Lortel stage beginning April 7, 2010, opening April 26 and playing through May 23.

Still Life will include Halley Feiffer, Ian Kahn, Kelly McAndrew, Matthew Rauch and Frederick Weller in the story of photographer Carrie Ann, who inexplicably shuts down at the pinnacle of her career. Lost, and afraid to even pick up a camera, her sudden descent is interrupted by a whirlwind romance with Jeff, a trend analyst who becomes determined to help her move on, even while facing his own dark future.

Feiffer’s off-Broadway credits include suburbia, Election Day, Some Americans Abroad, None of the Above, Urgent Fury and Feiffer’s People. TV and film credits count Law and Order, Flight of the Conchords, The Wonderful Maladys, You Can Count on Me, The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding.

Kahn’s regional credits include Arsenic and Old Lace, My Fair Lady, Long Days Journey into Night, Arcadia, Ghosts, The Tempest and The Importance of Being Earnest. On TV and film he has appeared in Day Zero, Brooklyn Lobster, The Unusuals, Dawson’s Creek and Sex and the City. He makes his off-Broadway debut with Still Life.

McAndrew made her Broadway debut with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Off-Brodaway, she has been seen in The Cataract, Book of Days, Greedy, Topsy Turvey Mouse and Lyric is Waiting. Her film credits include Everybody’s Fine, Superheroes, New Guy and Out of Darkness.

Rauch was seen on Broadway in Prelude to a Kiss. Off-Broadway credits include Edward the Second, 1001, Expats, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Revenger’s Tragedy and Hurlyburly.

Weller currently appears on the USA series In Plain Sight. On Broadway, he has been seen in the Tony Award winning Take Me Out and the revival of Glengarry Glen Ross. Off-Broadway credits include The Shape of Things and Curtains.

Rosemarie Dewitt and Sarah Jones will star in Family Week. The drama follows the life of Claire as checks into a recovery center in the desert, searching for a way to cope after the death of her son one year ago. When her mother, daughter and sister arrive to participate in "family week," long-dormant traumas collide with recent tragedies in surprisingly comical, shocking and deeply moving ways. United in this family struggle, the women rage and reach out in an effort to reconcile their love with the way things are.

DeWitt has appeared off-Broadway in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Small Tragedy. She was last seen as the title star in the film Rachel Getting Married. Her television credits include The United States of Tara, Mad Men, Standoff, Love Monkey and Rescue Me.

Jones won a 2006 Tony Award for her solo show Bridge & Tunnel. Off-Broadway, she has appeared in The Vagina Monologues, The Exonerated and her own Surface Transit.

Additional casting for both productions will be announced shortly.