Kathleen Chalfant Will Headline Laurence Leamer’s Rose Off-Broadway

Stage and screen vet Kathleen Chalfant will star in the world premiere of Laurence Leamer’s solo play about Rose Kennedy, Rose, off-Broadway this fall. The production will play a limited engagement November 21 through December 13 at Theatre Row’s Clurman Theatre. Opening night is set for November 29.

Chalfant received a Tony nod for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches; she has also been seen on Broadway in Racing Demon, Angles in America: Perestroika and M. Butterfly. Other stage credits include Wit, A Hard Heart, Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell and Great Expectations. Screen credits include Isn’t it Delicious, Duplicity, Murder and Murder, along with recurring roles on The Affair and House of Cards.

Rose is the Kennedy story as told by the matriarch who lived it all.  Bestselling author Laurence Leamer’s (The Kennedy Women, The Kennedy Men and Sons of Camelot) intimate, one-character drama is set in 1969 at the Kennedy’s Hyannis Port compound the week after Teddy’s fateful accident at Chappaquiddick. Rose struggles with all the tragedies the Kennedys have overcome and finds new understanding of the choices she made as well as those made by her husband and children.

Directed by Caroline Reddick Lawson, the production will feature costume design by Jane Greenwood, with scene design/projections by Anya Klepikov, lighting by Caitlin Rapoport and sound design by Jane Shaw.