T.R. Knight, Jan Maxwell, Richard Thomas & More Join Benefit Reading of Moilere's The Miser

T.R. Knight, Jan Maxwell and Richard Thomas and will appear in the Red Bull Theater's benefit reading of Moliere's The Miser. Doug Hughes is staging the October 22 benefit at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, which will also include Richard Kind, John Procaccino, Reg Rogers, Steven Boyer and Nicole Lowrance.

The comedy of manners follows the feisty children of a rich moneylender named Harpagon as they try to escape from his penny-pinching household and marry their respective lovers.

Five-time Tony nominee Maxwell has appeared on Broadway in Follies, Lend Me a Tenor, The Royal Family, To Be or Not To Be, Coram Boy, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sixteen Wounded, The Dinner Party, The Sound of Music and A Doll's House. 

Thomas is currently starring in MTC's An Enemy of the People. His other Broadway credits include Race, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Democracy and Billion Dollar Baby.  

Knight is well-known for his role as George O'Malley on TV's Grey's Anatomy. His Broadway credits include A Life in the Theatre, Tartuffe and Noises Off. 

Boyer has appeared on Broadway in I'm Not Rappaport and off-Broadway in The Explorers Club, Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us And How We Learn To Love Them and The School for Lies. 

Nicole Lowrance appeared as Sissie in Broadway's Dividing The Estate. 

Redbull's season of Renovation Readings will also include Lord Byron's Sardanapalus (November 12), Patrick Page's Swansong (December 10), Ben Jonson's The Alchemist (December 17), John Webster's The White Devil (January 14), David Ives' adaptation of Corneille's The Liar (February 11), April de Angelis' A Laughing Matter (February 25), Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (March 11) and J.M. Barrie's The Admirable Crichton (April 29).