Jonathan Groff, More, Join Oscar Winner Dukakis in The Singing Forest

Complete casting, including Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, has been announced for The Public Theater’s upcoming production of Craig Lucas’ The Singing Forest. Directed by Mark Wing-Davey, the New York premiere will begin previews on April 7, opening April 27 and playing its limited engagement through May 17.

Joining previously announced Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis Moonstruck, The Marriage of Better and Boo, the show will feature Mark Blum Twelve Angry Men, The Graduate, Rob Campbell Ivanov, King Lear, Louis Cancelmi Blasted, Vincent in Brixton, Pierre Epstein Plenty, The Ballad of Soapy Smith, Jonathan Groff Spring Awakening, The Public’s Hair Randy Harrison Queer as Folk, Wicked, Deborah Offner original Broadway cast of Hair, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea and Susan Pourfar LAB’s The Poor Itch, The Last Sunday in June.

In The Singing Forest, Lucas investigates how history collides with the human heart. The Riemans are your typical American family: they haven’t spoken to each other in decades. Severed by deeply buried secrets from the Holocaust, these endearing individuals are desperate to stay out of contact with each other. Their story takes you on a passage from today's world of Starbucks, celebrity and therapy to Freud's inner circle in Vienna and to Paris at the end of WWII. A classic inter-generational story, the play moves and transports, sweeping through one family’s journey to reconcile their past.

The Singing Forest will featured scenic design by John McDermott, costumes by Gabriel Berry, lighting design by Japhy Weideman and original music and sound design by John Gromada.