Morton, Hecht, Franz and Epstein Join Molina in the Roundabout's Howard Katz

Euan Morton, Jessica Hecht, Elizabeth Franz and Alvin Epstein are among the cast members who will join the previously announced Alfred Molina in the Roundabout Theatre Company's forthcoming American premiere of Patrick Marber's Howard Katz. The play, to be directed by Doug Hughes Doubt, A Touch of the Poet, The Paris Letter will begin previews at the Laura Pels Theatre on February 2, 2007, and open officially on March 8, running through May 6.

Once a powerful, hard-hearted showbiz agent, the title character in Howard Katz Molina has lost everything he ever valued: his career, his family and his faith. In a series of haunting flashbacks, the play traces the story of the mighty Katz, capturing a man free-falling yet determinedly clinging to life.

Rounding out the cast of Howard Katz are Max Baker Mother Courage, Abigail's Party, Comedians, What the Butler Saw, Kristen Bush A Touch of the Poet, As You Like It, Great Expectations, Patrick Henney Beauty and the Beast, In Tune with the Universe, The Greeks and Edward Hajj East Is East, 16 Wounded, Kingdom of Lost Sons.

Molina earned a 2004 Tony nomination for playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and co-starred on Broadway in Art in 1998. He made his Roundabout debut in the American premiere of Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney during the 1995-96 season. In Los Angeles, he co-starred with Annette Bening in The Cherry Orchard. On the London stage, he earned Olivier Award nominations for Oklahoma! and Speed the Plow and starred in Night of the Iguana and Serious Money. His varied film credits include The Da Vinci Code, Spider-Man 2, Frida, Identity and Chocolat. Upcoming film releases include Hoax, The Little Traitor and an HBO film version of As You Like It, directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Morton received Tony and Olivier Award nominations for his performance in Taboo. Other theatrical credits include The Who's Tommy, Measure for Pleasure, Brundibar/Comedy on the Bridge, Caligula, We Will Rock You workshop, The Silent Treatment, The Matchstalk Man, The Sexual Life of the Camel, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf and Approaching Zanzibar.

Hecht's Broadway credits include Julius Caesar, After the Falland The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Off-Broadway credits include The House and Town, Stop Kiss, Flesh and Blood, The Fourth Sister, Plunge, Lobster Alice, Othello and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Williamstown credits include Top Girls, Light Up the Sky and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told.

Franz won a Tony Award for the 1999 revival of Death of a Salesman and was nominated for Tonys for Morning's At Seven and Brighton Beach Memoirs. Other Broadway credits include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Cherry Orchard, The Octette Bridge Club, The Cemetery Club, Getting Married and Uncle Vanya. Off-Broadway credits include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Comedy of Errors, Minutes from the Blue Route and Madwoman of Chaillot. Regional credits include The Lion in Winter, The Glass Menagerie, A View from the Bridge, The Matchmaker, The Wizard of Oz, Great Expectations, The Model Apartment and Woman in Mind.

Epstein played the title role in King Lear off-Broadway last summer. Recent credits among his more than 100 stage productions include Marat/Sade, Enrico IV, Richard II, Antigone, The Doctor's Dilemma, Full Circle, Loot, Ivanov, The Merchant of Venice, Nobody Dies on Friday, In the Jungle of Cities, The Bacchae, When the World Was Green, Man and Superman, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Tartuffe, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, The Tempest, The Threepenny Opera and Henry V. A world-famous specialist in interpreting the work of Samuel Beckett, he has starred in the American premieres of Endgame and Waiting for Godot.

The design team of Howard Katz includes Scott Pask sets, Catherine Zuber costumes, Christopher Akerlind lights and David Van Tieghem original music & sound design.