Present Laughter Tickets

Oscar winner Kevin Kline's big break occurred in 1978 when he won a Tony Award for his Broadway debut performance in On the Twentieth Century. He garnered a Best Actor Tony in 1981 for The Pirates of Penzance and appeared on Broadway in the 2007 revival of Cyrano de Bergerac and the 2017 revival of Present Laughter. Other stage credits include in a Tony-nominated turn as Falstaff in Henry IV, as well as the title roles in Ivanov and Hamlet. His screen credits include an Oscar-winning performance in A Fish Called Wanda, Sophie’s Choice and the live-action Beauty and the Beast.

Cobie Smulders spent nine seasons starring as Robin Scherbatsky in the hit TV comedy How I Met Your Mother. On the big screen, she played Maria Hill in The Avengers and its sequel. The Vancouver native appeared off-Broadway in Love, Loss and What I Wore and made her Broadway debut in the 2017 revival of Present Laughter.

Broadway: Present Laughter 2017 (with Kevin Kline), Spring Awakening, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, An American Daughter, Wild Honey, Company, Doonesbury, and Jake’s Women. Tony nominated for Hedda Gabler (directed by Nicholas Martin), The Elephant Man (directed by Sean Mathias) and The Constant Wife (directed by Mark Brokaw). Drama Desk nominated for Some Americans Abroad (directed by Roger Michell). Theater World Award winner for Present Laughter 1982 (starring and directed by George C. Scott). Film/TV: Dumb Money, Echo 3, The Dropout,“So Help Me Todd, The First Lady, Bosch: Legacy, Bull, Big Trouble in Little China, Unfaithful, Ice Storm, Liberal Arts, 2 Days in New York, 127 Hours and Where’d You Go, Bernadette, Law and Order(s), Empire Falls, The West Wing, Homeland, This Is Us, Charmed, Supergirl. Emmy nominated for Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and recently seen in Inventing Anna, all created by Shonda Rhimes. Professor at USC. Brown/Yale grad.

Kristine Nielsen's Broadway credits include Present Laughter, You Can’t Take It With You, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening, The GreenBird, Jackie, and The Iceman Cometh (1986). Off-Broadway credits include A Lovely Sundayfor Creve Coeur; Taylor Mac’s Hir; How I Spent Last Summer; Omnium Gatherum; Our Leading Lady; The Killer; Dog Opera (Obie Award); and Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them; Miss Witherspoon; and Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie). Nielsen has worked regionally all over the country, including at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Folger Theatre (D.C.), and most recently at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton in Durang’s Turning Off theMorning News. Television: Happyish, Elementary, Political Animals, NBC’s The Sound of Music Live, Amazon’s Z: The Beginning of Everything. Film: Trouble,Morning Glory, The Savages, Small TimeCrooks. Nielsen is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama.

NYTW: Bach At Leipzig. Theatre includes: Tootsie and The Royal Family (Outer Critics Circle Nominations),The Iceman Cometh, Present Laughter, You Can’t Take It With You, Holiday (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations),The Dazzle (OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards). Recent Television: The Americans, Boardwalk Empire, The Knick, Hell On Wheels, YOU, The Blacklist.

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Most recently seen in Power of Sail (Geffen Playhouse) opposite Bryan Cranston and Amy Brenneman, and in the Sundance/SXSW short Daddy's Girl. Tedra last starred on Broadway in Present Laughter with Kevin Kline, and received Drama Desk and Obie Awards for The Wolves (Playwrights Realm/LCT). Additional theatre: Jesse Eisenberg's Happy Talk opposite Susan Sarandon, Simon Stephens's On The Shore of the Wide World (Atlantic), Annie Baker’s The Flick (Barrow Street). Screen credits: Amazon’s upcoming series A League of Their Own, Fosse/Verdon (FX), Katy Keene (CW), Tales of the City (Netflix). Tedra holds an MA in Classical Acting from LAMDA and BFA from University of Michigan.

Peter Francis James was most recently seen on Broadway in the 2017 Tony-nominated revival of Present Laughter. His other main-stem credits include The Merchant of Venice, On Golden Pond, Drowning Crow, Judgment at Nuremberg and The American Clock.

Matt Bittner's select acting credits include the Tony nominated revival of Present Laughter, starring Kevin Kline; School of Rock: The Musical (National Tour, Broadway); Almost Famous: The Musical (The Old Globe); Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (The Public’s Shakespeare In The Park); As You Like It (Two River Theater), and various productions with Mile Square Theater and Thingamajig Theatre Co. TV: Madam Secretary, The Good Fight. MFA, Rutgers University. 

 Broadway: Present Laughter (Miss Erikson w/ Kevin Kline), How To Succeed in Business... (Miss Jones w/Daniel Radcliffe), Phantom Of The Opera, The Music Man, Thou Shalt Not. Off-Broadway: Little Women, Big Love. Shakespeare In The Park: Into The Woods. National Tours: Mary Poppins (Miss Andrew), Disney’s High School Musical (Ms. Darbus), Mamma Mia, (Tanya). Regional Favorites: Lend Me A Soprano (Mrs. Wiley, Alley Theatre), Knoxville (Aunt Hannah, Asolo Rep), Company (Joanne, Barrington Stage), Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett, KC Rep). TV: WeCrashed, House of Cards, Blacklist, Gotham, Younger.

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