Casting Complete for Off-Broadway Debut of Adam Rapp's The Metal Children

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 Barrett (Finer Noble Gases), Susan Blommaert (Grease, Mary Rose), Guy Boyd (August: Osage County, The Late Henry Moss), David Greenspan (The Royal Family, Some Men, The Myopia), Halley Wegryn Gross (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), Jessy Hodges and Phoebe Strole (Spring Awakening, Mourning Becomes Electra).

The Metal Children is described as a timely drama about a New York writer (Crudup) and his explosive encounter in a small American town when he arrives to defend a young-adult novel he wrote, which has been banned by the local school board. The controversy ignites heated emotions over religious beliefs and censorship.

The author of plays such as Red Light Winter, Nocturne, Finer Noble Gases, Stone Cold Serious, Blackbird and American Sligo, Rapp also penned the young adult novel The Buffalo Tree, which was censored by the Muhlenberg School Board in Reading, PA, due to its themes, graphic language and sexual content.