Victoria Clark, Scott Cohen & Marylouise Burke Join Playwrights Horizons Season

Playwrights Horizons has announced the addition of Tony Award winner Victoria Clark, Scott Cohen and Marylouise Burke to the casts of three productions on tap for the 2008-09 season. Clark, a Tony winner for The Light in the Piazza, will join previously announced stars Jonathan Groff, Cassie Beck and Skipp Sudduth in Craig Lucas' Prayer for My Enemy, which begins performances on November 14 at the Mainstage Theater. The production will reunite Clark with Piazza director Bartlett Sher as well as with Lucas, who wrote the musical's book.

Cohen has joined previously announced stars Dylan McDermott, Maura Tierney, Brian J. Smith and Aya Cash in the cast of Nicky Silver's Three Changes, which begins performances on August 22 in the Mainstage Theater, directed by Wilson Milam.

Burke will join previously announced star Dana Ivey in the cast of Evan's Smith The Savannah Disputation which begins previews on February 6, 2009, in the Mainstage Theater, directed by Walter Bobbie.

Prayer for My Enemy centers on the Noone family in the summer of 2004: Father Austin Sudduth is watching his nature shows and trying to keep from falling off the wagon, mother Karen Clark is keeping an eye on Austin, son Billy Groff is just back from Iraq, and pregnant daughter Marianne Beck is upset about the state of her marriage to Tad, Billy's childhood friend, who may still harbor a crush on him. Additional casting for the play is still to be announced.

Clark is currently appearing in the off-Broadway revival of Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo. In addition to her Tony-winning performance as Margaret Johnson in The Light in the Piazza, she has appeared on Broadway in Titanic, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, Urinetown, Cabaret, Guys & Dolls, A Grand Night for Singing and Sunday in the Park with George, plus national tours of Les Misérables and Cats and the Encores! productions of Juno, Follies and Bye, Bye Birdie. Off-Broadway credits include The Agony and the Agony and Tres Ninas. Clark released her debut solo album Fifteen Seconds from Grace last fall.

In Silver's black comedy Three Changes, Nate McDermott and Laurel Tierney are a comfortably married Upper West Side couple—until Nate's wayward brother Hal Cohen arrives from Hollywood. What at first seems a casual visit, a chance to reconnect, is quickly revealed as something more ominous.

Cohen recently co-starred in Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough To Say I Love You at the Public Theater and appeared on Broadway in Losing Louie. He is known to TV audiences for his roles in Gilmore Girls and The Return of Jezebel James.

In The Savannah Disputation, when susceptible Catholic spinster Margaret Burke politely admits door-to-door Pentecostal missionary Melissa into her home, her seemingly-solid faith starts to waver , much to the chagrin of her feisty sister Mary Ivey. Before long, the God-fearing sisters have ambushed their "guest" with the aid of an unsuspecting local priest, setting the scene for a showdown of truly biblical proportions. Additional casting for the play is still to be announced.

Burke most recently appeared on Broadway as Madame Caron in Is He Dead? and was featured in the Broadway revivals of Into the Woods and Inherit the Wind and in the national tour of Lettice and Lovage. Off-Broadway credits include Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, The Oldest Profession, Wintertime, American Sligo and Now That's What I Call a Storm.