John Doyle Taps Broadway Vets for Cincinnati Three Sisters

Broadway alums Laila Robins, Lynn Cohen, Alexander Gemignani, Frank Wood, Hannah Cabell, Alma Cuervo and more will join with Tony Award winning director John Doyle for playwright Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters at Cincinnati’s Playhouse in the Park. Ruhl, whose In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play begins performances on Broadway October 22 at the Lyceum Theater, was commissioned by the Playhouse to adapt the play. Performances begin October 24 and continue through November 21.

The Three Sisters will feature Sarah Agnew as Natasha; Cabell (A Man for All Seasons) as Irina; Cohen (Ivanov, Orpheus Descending) as Anfisa; Ronald Cohen as Ferapont; Cuervo (Beauty and the Beast, Titanic) as Olga; Gemignani (Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd) as Andrei; Terry Greiss as Chebutykin; Keith Reddin (The Play’s the Thing) as Kulygin; Laila Robins (Heartbreak House, Frozen) as Masha; Felix Solis as Solyony; Corey Stoll (Old Acquaintance) as Vershinin; and Frank Wood (Tony Award winner for Side Man, August: Osage County) as Tuzenbach. The show follows Russian sisters Olga, Masha and Irina as they pine for Moscow and days gone past in the year following their father’s death.

The production marks the first non-musical directed in America by Doyle, best known for his Tony Award winning helming of 2005’s Sweeney Todd revival, as well as more recent New York credits including Broadway’s Company and A Catered Affair, and off-Broadway’s Road Show.

In addition to the upcoming In the Other Room, Ruhl’s New York writing credits include off-Broadway’s The Clean House, Eurydice and Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Her Passion Play cycle, Demeter in the City and Late: A Cowboy Song have all enjoyed regional productions.

The creative team for The Three Sisters also features Tony Award winning Broadway set designer Scott Pask (Pillowman, The Coast of Utopia) and costumer Ann Hould-Ward (Company, Beauty and the Beast).