Barrett Foa, Maria Dizzia Set for Playrights Horizons' The Drunken City

Barrett Foa and Maria Dizzia are the first confirmed cast members for Playwrights Horizons' forthcoming New York premiere production of The Drunken City by Adam Bock The Thugs, Swimming in the Shallows. Directed by Trip Cullman, the play is set to begin previews on March 13, 2008, at the off-Broadway company's Peter J. Sharp Theatre and will continue performances through April 20. Opening night has not been set.

The Drunken City is described as a unique theatrical take on the mystique of marraige and the ever-shifting nature of love and identity in a city that never sleeps. On a bar crawl to end all crawls, three twenty-something brides-to-be find their lives going topsy-turvy when one of them suddenly begins to question her future after a chance encounter with a recently jilted handsome stranger.

Foa's Broadway credits include Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Mamma Mia!. His off-Broadway credits include Jesus in Godspell and Cupid in Cupid & Psyche. Regionally, he recently appeared with Charles Busch in The Lady in Question at Bay Street Theatre. Other credits include Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing Hartford Stage/Shakespeare Theatre, Mordred in Camelot Paper Mill, Kept TheatreWorks in CA, Just So North Shore, The Fantasticks St. Louis Muny, Gypsy Weston Playhouse, Children of Eden and The Sound of Music MT Wichita.

Dizzia, a Broadway.com Fresh Face, recently originated the title role in Sarah Ruhl's hit version of Eurydice at Second Stage, having also appeared in the initial productions at Yale Repertory and Berkeley Repertory. Other off-Broadway credits include The Wooden Breeks MCC, Millicent Scowlworthy and The Map Maker's Sorrow SPF, Apparition Connelly Theater, Pullman Car Hiawatha Keen Company, Alice the Magnet Clubbed Thumb, Cause for Alarm FringeNYC and Gone Missing The Civilians.

Additional casting for The Drunken City will be announced at a later date.