Scott Glenn Joins Picture at the Goodman

Scott Glenn has joined Stacy Keach, Stephen Lang, Linda Lavin, Matthew Modine and Heather Prete as part of the cast of the Goodman Theatre's world premiere production of Arthur Miller's Finishing the Picture. Glenn will play cinematographer Terry Case in the play.

Glenn has appeared on Broadway in The Impossible Years and Burn This. His off-Broadway credits include Dark Rapture and Killer Joe. A prolific film actor, his big screen credits include Urban Cowboy, The Right Stuff, Silverado, Personal Best, Backdraft, Courage Under Fire, Apocalypse Now, Reckless, Silence of the Lambs, The Virgin Suicides, Vertical Limit, Buffalo Soldiers and The Shipping News.

Finishing the Picture is said to be loosely based on the filming of Miller's ex-wife Marilyn Monroe's last completed film The Misfits. It centers on a distinguished director who is about to lose his picture due to the unstable behavior of a famously fragile movie star Prete. She's recognized all over the world, loved by millions, but unable to believe in herself. The studio owner Keach is threatening to pull the plug and a temperamental acting teacher Lang is flown in to coax the actress out of bed and onto the set.

The play, directed by Robert Falls, is scheduled to run in Chicago from September 21 through October 31. Two of the play's roles, including that of the director, are yet to be cast.