Hawke to Star in the New Group's Hurlyburly
Set in the cocaine-and-sex-infused Hollywood Hills of the mid-1980s, Hurlyburly is Rabe's brutally comic reflection on the decade of decadence. This production will feature a newly revised script by the playwright and is being touted as the first New York production of the play since its Broadway run in 1984.
Hawke earned an Oscar nomination in 2001 for his work in Training Day. His other film credits include Dead Poets Society, A Midnight Clear, Alive, Reality Bites, Before Sunrise, Gattaca, Great Expectations, Snow Falling on Cedars, Before Sunset and Taking Lives. Hawke has developed an extensive theater resume as well. He co-founded the Malaparte Theatre Company, for which he directed a 1994 production of Wild Dogs!. His off-Broadway credits include Sophistry at Playwrights Horizons, Casanova at the Public, Killer's Head at the Public and The Late Henry Moss at Signature Theatre Company. He made his Broadway debut in The Seagull and appeared on the Great White Way last season in the acclaimed Lincoln Center mounting of Henry IV.
Cannavale's theater credits include Virgil Is Still the Frog Boy, Noel Coward in Two Keys, Incident at 118th, The Young Man and the World, Chilean Holiday and Latins in La La Land. He has appeared in the films When Trumpets Fade, Gloria, The Postman, Night Falls on Manhattan, I'm Not Rappaport, Insomnia, The Station Agent and Shall We Dance.
Hamilton made his Broadway debut in Proof. His other New York theater credits include The Waverly Gallery, This Is Our Youth, Music From a Sparkling Planet, As Bees in Honey Drown, The Cider House Rules Parts I & II, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Suburbia, Sons and Fathers and Evolution. His film credits include Alive, Kicking and Screaming, House of Yes, Urbana, Freak Talks About Sex, Landfall, The Escape Artist, Online, The Bourne Identity and West of Here.
Kellner appeared on Broadway in The Iceman Cometh. Her off-Broadway credits include You Never Can Tell, Minutes from The Blue Route, Refuge, Escape from Happiness and Troilus and Cressida. She has numerous film credits, including Pearl Harbor, Six Degrees of Separation, 200 Cigarettes, Restaurant, Restless, Rosewood, Shaft, No Way Home, Murder and Murder, The Truth About Tully, Spring Forward, 30 Days and A Day at the Beach.
Casting Hawke in Hurlyburly would preclude him from being a part of the upcoming Broadway production of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, which will reportedly open at the Music Box Theatre on March 3, 2005.