John C. Reilly Exits Off-Broadway 2 Cities

Due to a "scheduling conflict," John C. Reilly has departed Heather Woodbury's Tale of 2 Cities, set to run at Performance Space 122 from October 12 through October 29. A replacement star will be announced shortly.

Tale of 2 Cities is a time-traversing story about the Brooklyn Dodgers' relocation to Los Angeles in 1957 and its reverberating effects on three generations of characters from both cities. The interracial cast plays multiple roles ranging from 1940s Jewish leftists to contemporary Latino hipsters as this tale of historic and contemporary uprooting and urban erasure unfolds. Tale of 2 Cities is described as a timely and sweeping story of urban displacement—a meta-mix of music, memory and overlapping histories of both vanished and vanishing communities.

The show was jointly commissioned by P.S. 122 and UCLA Live, and is to be presented as two full-length parts, Grifters, Drifters and Dodgers and Mega Mixicana Waltz. The performance schedule will allow for back-to-back viewings of the two sections on Saturdays and Sundays or consecutive viewings Tuesday through Friday evenings. Also in the ensemble cast are Woodbury, Winsome Brown, Michael Escamilla, Tracey Leigh, Diane Rodriguez, Ed Vassallo and Heather Woo.