Caldwell in Talks to Join Seldes in McNally World Premiere

Zoe Caldwell is in talks to join Marian Seldes in the Primary Stages world premiere production of Terrence McNally's Deuce, according to a company spokesperson. The play is scheduled to run off-Broadway from March 20 through April 29, 2007.

Caldwell earned Tony Awards for her performances in Slapstick Tragedy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and McNally's Master Class. Her other Broadway credits include The Devils, The Creation of the World and Other Business, Dance of Death, Lillian and The Play What I Wrote in which she guest-starred for a series of performances. Her off-Broadway acting credits includes McNally's A Perfect Ganesh. Though she is best known as an actress, Caldwell also boasts a substantial resume as a director. In Gotham, she helmed Broadway mountings of An Almost Perfect Person and Park Your Car in Harvard Yard and the acclaimed off-Broadway production of Vita & Virginia.

No plot description has been released for Deuce. In addition to the McNally play, Primary Stages will present A. R. Gurney's Indian Blood, Kathleen Clark's Southern Comforts, starring real-life husband and wife Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter, and the Christopher Durang musical Adrift in Macao during its 2006-2007 season.