Chris Noth and Chris Pine Headline Farragut North at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse

Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse will present off-Broadway’s recent politically charged thriller Farragut North, with original star Chris Noth reprising his role for the West Coast production. The play, written by Beau Willimon and staged by original director, Tony winner Doug Hughes, will open on June 24 and run through July 26.

Joining the cast as Stephen, a role originated by Tony Award winner John Gallagher Jr., is Chris Pine, who will hit the big screen this summer as Captain Kirk in the J.J. Abrams remake of Star Trek. Pine is no stranger to the stage—he also appeared at the Geffen in 2007 in Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig.

Farragut North, about a wunderkind press secretary falling prey to backroom politics during a tight presidential primary, had its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company in November 2008. Movie stars George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio’s production companies hold film rights to take the show to the big screen.

Farragut North replaces the originally slated world premiere of new musical Nightmare Alley, based on the William Lindsay Gresham novel and subsequent 1947 film about con artists and underground personalities in the grips of a fallen economy. The musical has been postponed until the following due to financial reasons.