Logan Marshall-Green, Larry Pine & More Set for Beast at NYTW

New York Theatre Workshop has announced casting and dates for Michael Weller's Beast, which will begin previews on August 29. The play directed by Jo Bonney, will open September 15 and run through October 12 as part of NYTW's 26th annual season.

The Beast cast includes Raul Aranas Miss Saigon, Flower Drum Song, Jeremy Bobb Is He Dead?, Translations, Lisa Joyce Red Light Winter, Logan Marshall-Green King Lear, The Distance From Here, Dog Sees God, Larry Pine Angels in America, Private Lives, Eileen Rivera Sides: The Fear is Real and Corey Stoll Some Americans Abroad, Old Acquaintance.

Beast is described as a blood-red comic road adventure about two mutilated but patriotic Iraq War veterans Marshall-Green and Stoll as they make their way home from a military hospital in Germany. Their marauding adventure across America eventually takes them to Crawford, Texas, where they meet up with their Commander-in-Chief Pine and offer a surefire solution to all his problems.

Beast will be followed by the Peter Brook helmed The Grand Inquisitor October 22-November 23, adapted by Marie-Hélène Estienne from Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and playwright Naomi Wallace's Things of Dry Hours, set to open in Spring 2009, directed by Rubin Santiago-Hudson.