Stuhlbarg, Weaver to Head Cast of Atlantic's Voysey Inheritance

Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg and Tony winner Fritz Weaver will star in the Atlantic Theater Company's New York premiere production of David Mamet's adaptation of the Harley Granville-Barker play The Voysey Inheritance. Directed by David Warren, the production begins previews at the Atlantic on November 15 and opens officially off-Broadway on December 6. The limited engagement is scheduled to run through January 7, 2007.

Joining Stuhlbarg and Weaver in the cast are Atlantic Company members Steven Goldstein Romance and Todd Weeks The Full Monty, plus Rachel Black Necessary Targets, Christopher Duva The Elephant Man, Peter Maloney Celebration and The Room, Katharine Powell The Water's Edge, Judith Roberts Present Laughter, Geddeth Smith Waiting In the Wings, Samantha Soule Dinner at Eight and C.J. Wilson Festen.

Mamet's new adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance explores the timely issue of morals vs. money as an upper-middle-class family goes to pieces when it is revealed that the patriarch has amassed the family fortune by secretly embezzling money from his clients. As his son tries to put things in order, he discovers that the family is more than willing to perpetuate this way of doing business, rather than sacrifice their comfort and luxury. Granville-Barker wrote the play in 1905; David Mamet's world premiere adaptation opened at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco in March 2005.

Stuhlbarg, who plays Edward Voysey, earned a Tony nomination for The Pillowman. Other Broadway credits include The Invention of Love, Cabaret, Taking Sides, Saint Joan, Timon of Athens and The Government Inspector. Off-Broadway credits include Measure for Pleasure, Belle Epoque, The Mysteries, The Persians, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, A Dybbuk, Richard II, Henry VIII, Cymbeline, The Grey Zone and Old Wicked Songs. On TV, he has appeared in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Grey Zone, solidarity, A Price Above Rubies and Hunley.

Weaver most recently starred in the world premiere of Trying in Chicago and later at off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre. He began his New York career more than 50 years ago in The White Devil, winning a 1955 Clarence Derwent Award, and won a Tony for Child's Play. Among his numerous stage credits are The Chalk Garden, Miss Lonelyhearts, All American, Baker Street, My Fair Lady, Absurd Person Singular, Love Letters, A Shot in the Dark, The Price, Angels Fall, Ring Round the Moon and The Crucible. His many film credits include Fail-Safe, Power, Black Sunday, Marathon Man, Creep Show, Demon Seed and The Thomas Crown Affair. On television, he received an Emmy nomination for the miniseries Holocaust.

The Voysey Inheritance features scenic design by Derek McLane, costume design by Gregory Gale, lighting design by Jeff Croiter and sound design by Fitz Patton.