Kieran Culkin to Star in subUrbia at Second Stage

Kieran Culkin will headline the Second Stage Theatre production of Eric Bogosian's subUrbia, directed by Jo Bonney. Diksha Basu, Jessica Capshaw, Michael Esper, Halley Feiffer, Kelli Garner, Daniel Eric Gold, Manu Narayan, and Peter Scanavino will also star.

Culkin, best known for his film career, received positive notices for his last New York stage appearance in the 2005 mounting of After Ashley. He also appeared onstage in James Lapine's The Moment When at Playwrights Horizons in the spring of 2000 and in the West End mounting of This Is Our Youth in the fall of 2002. His last released film was Igby Goes Down, which was released in 2002 and earned the young actor acclaim. His other film credits include Home Alone, Father of the Bride, Only the Lonely, Home Alone 2, Father of the Bride 2, The Mighty, The Cider House Rules, She's All That, Music of the Heart and The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys.

Basu, a New Delhi native, appeared on the New York stage last year in Harvest at La Mama E.T.C.. Capshaw, most familiar from her work on the television show The Practice, was featured in Bonney's production of Fat Pig off-Broadway. Esper's off-Broadway credits include Manic Flight Reaction at Playwrights Horizons and Big Bill at Lincoln Center. Feiffer, recently featured on the big screen in The Squid and the Whale, has appeared in off-off-Broadway mountings of Urgent Fury and Feiffer's People.Garner was one of the stars of the off-Broadway mounting of Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead. Gold's off-Broadway credits include The Paris Letter, Small Tragedy, Cagelove, This Thing of Darkness and Beautiful Thing. Narayan is best known for starring in the Broadway musical Bombay Dreams and recently appeared in Getting Home, which was part of the Second Stage Theatre Uptown series. Scanavino just completed a run in Shining City at the Biltmore Theatre.

subUrbia is scheduled to begin previews on September 6 and officially open on September 28.