Arliss Howard to Replace Sam Shepard in Off-B'way's A Number

Arliss Howard will replace Sam Shepard in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Caryl Churchill's A Number, which has recently been extended through February 13. Howard will begin performances on January 18.

Howard's off-Broadway credits include The Monogomist and The Late Henry Moss. His film credits include The Prodigal, Full Metal Jacket, Tequila Sunrise, Men Don't Leave, Ruby, CrissCross, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Johns, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Amistad, A Map of the World and Birth.

In A Number, Salter the part Howard will play is a father who must look at the faces that result from his ethically questionable actions.

A Number, directed by James Macdonald, opened off-Broadway on December 7 with Shepard and Dallas Roberts. Eric Grode in his Broadway.com Review of the drama wrote: "This is as close as any living writer has come to the incantatory power of Samuel Beckett, and the topicality of A Number actually gives Churchill an advantage over Beckett in some ways. Her characters' torments do not stem from any sort of existential malaise. Churchill finds within a very real ethical dilemma the intractable, essential questions that hover over every child and every parent. Salter's son, through no fault of his own, contains multitudes. So do we all. And so, unforgettably, does A Number."