Cast Shaping Up for NYTW's Hedda Gabler

The cast is shaping up for the New York Theater Workshop production Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. In addition to previously announced star Elizabeth Marvel, the play will feature Elzbieta Czyzewska as Bertha, Jason Butler Harner as George Tesman, Mary Beth Peil as Julia Tesman, Ana Reeder as Thea Elvsted and John Douglas Thompson as Judge Brack.

Czyzewska is an NYTW alum, having appeared in the company's production of Vienna: Lusthaus revisited. Harner is currently appearing as Tom in the Kennedy Center production of The Glass Menagerie. Peil earned a 1985 Tony Award nomination for her work in The King and I and also appeared on the Great White Way in Nine. Reeder recently made her Broadway debut in Sight Unseen. Thompson's theatrical credits include Othello, Mother Courage, Antigone and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Hedda Gabler is the story of the newlywed Hedda Tesman Marvel who finds herself bored with married life to her scholar husband, George Tesman Harner. As the daughter of General Gabler, she had grown accustomed to the freedom and exciting social world of her father's home. When her rival, Mrs. Elvsted Reeder, reenters her life with Hedda's former lover, Eilert Lovberg in tow, Hedda sets out on a shocking path of destruction that affects the lives of everyone around her.

This Hedda Gabler, directed by Ivo van Hove, will run downtown from September 10 through October 24.