Cast Announced for Charles Grodin's The Right Kind of People

Complete casting has been announced for the upcoming Primary Stages production of Charles Grodin's The Right Kind of People. Doris Belack, Stephen Bradbury, Fred Burrell, Mitch Greenberg, Keith Jochim, Katherine Leask, Ed Owens, Robert Stanton, Evan Thompson and John C. Vennema will star.

The Right Kind of People is a send-up of a fashionable Fifth Avenue co-op board, where issues of race, gender and social status simmer just beneath the surface.

Belack's Broadway credits include The Cemetery Club, Social Security, The Trip Back Down, Bad Habits and The Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Bradbury has appeared on the Great White Way in A Few Good Men. Burrell appeared in the world premiere of The Right Kind of People at the Magic Theatre. Greenberg's Broadway credits include Laughter On The 23rd Floor, Ain't Broadway Grand, The Threepenny Opera, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, Into The Light, Marilyn... and Can-Can. Jochim has appeared on Broadway in Frankenstein. Leask's New York stage credits include The Exonerated, A Late Supper, Stonewall Jackson's House, Amphitryon, Home, Night Rules, Reunions, and The Man Who Climbed the Pecan Trees and Grodin's The Co-op Chronicle. Owens has appeared on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Fortune's Fool, Death of a Salesman, An Inspector Calls, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Changing Room, That Championship Season and Conduct Unbecoming. Stanton won an Obie and Clarence Derwent Award for his performance in Primary Stages' All in the Timing. Thompson's Broadway credits include Ivanov, An American Daughter, City of Angels, 1776 and Jimmy. Vennema has appeared on Broadway in The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Royal Family, Otherwise Engaged, The Elephant Man and Racing Demon.

The Right Kind of People, directed by Chris Smith, is scheduled to begin previews at 59E59 Theaters on January 24 and officially open on February 9. Its limited engagement is set to end on March 5.