Coming directly from its critically acclaimed run at Chicago's prestigious Goodman Theatre, Eugene O'Neill's DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS, starring Two-time Tony Award winner BRIAN DENNEHY, stage and screen star CARLA GUGINO, and Tony-nominee PABLO SCHREIBER, and under the direction of Tony Award Winner ROBERT FALLS, will transfer to Broadway for a strictly limited 13-week engagement at the ST. JAMES THEATRE - with performances beginning on April 14th, 2009 in preparation for an April 27th opening.
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS also stars BORIS McGIVER and DANIEL STEWART SHERMAN, and features design by WALT SPANGLER (set design), ANA KUZMANIC (costume design), MICHAEL PHILIPPI (Lighting Design), and RICHARD WOODBURY (Original Music and Sound Design).
JEFFREY RICHARDS, JERRY FRANKEL, and STEVE TRAXLER, the team that brought August: Osage County to Broadway from Chicago, will be the lead producers. They are currently represented on Broadway with Speed-the-Plow and Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W Bush, both of which have recouped their investments. Their production of Blithe Spirit, starring Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett, Christine Ebersole, and Jayne Atkinson, will begin performances on Thursday, February 26th.
BRIAN DENNEHY (Ephraim Cabot) credits at the Goodman include Hughie (2004, also at Trinity Repertory Company and Long Wharf Theatre), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2002), Death of a Salesman (1998), A Touch of the Poet (1996), The Iceman Cometh (1992, also at Abbey Theatre, Dublin) and Galileo (1986). His Broadway credits include Inherit the Wind (2007), Long Day's Journey Into Night (Tony Award for Best Actor 2003), Death of a Salesman (Tony Award for Best Actor 1999) and Translations (1995). His off-Broadway credits include Richard Nelson's Conversations in Tusculum at The Public Theatre (2008), Trumbo at Westside Theatre (2004), The Cherry Orchard at Brooklyn Academy of Music (1988) and Says I, Says He at the Phoenix Theater Company (1979). Dennehy's regional theater credits include All's Well That Ends Well, Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape at Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario (2008); The Exonerated (which toured New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C.; Says I, Says He at Mark Taper Forum; and Rat in the Skull at Wisdom Bridge Theatre. His credits in London's West End include Death of a Salesman, for which he received the Olivier Best Actor Statue in 2005. Feature films include Righteous Kill, War Eagle, Welcome to Paradise, Ratatouille, Tommy Boy, Baz Luhrman's Romeo & Juliet, Presumed Innocent, Gladiator, Best Seller, The Last of the Finest, The Belly of an Architect (Best Actor Chicago Film Festival), F/X and Cocoon, among many others. Television films include "Our Fathers" (Showtime, Emmy Award nomination Best Supporting Actor), "The Exonerated" (Court TV), "Behind the Camera: Three's Company" (NBC), "The Crooked E" (ABC), "A Season on the Brink" (ESPN), "Three Blind Mice" (CBS), "Death of a Salesman" (Showtime, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy Award nomination for Best Actor) and "Thanks to a Grateful Nation" (Showtime).
CARLA GUGINO (Abbie Putnam) made her Broadway debut in Roundabout Theatre Company's 2004 revival of Arthur Miller's After the Fall, for which she received an Outer Critic's Circle Award nomination and a Theater World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut for her role as Maggie. She followed that with her acclaimed portrayal of Catherine Holly in the Tennessee William's classic Suddenly Last Summer, also for Roundabout. Most recent film credits include American Gangster opposite Russell Crowe; Righteous Kill opposite Robert De Niro and Al Pacino; The Lookout; the Spy Kids Trilogy and Sin City, both directed by Robert Rodriguez; and Night at the Museum opposite Ben Stiller. She recently completed filming Watchmen and Race to Witch Mountain, both due out this spring. Other film credits include This Boy's Life, Miami Rhapsody, Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes opposite Nicolas Cage, Wayne Wang's Center of the World and The Singing Detective opposite Robert Downey, Jr. Television credits include the title character in the ABC series "Karen Sisco", based on the Elmore Leonard novel Out of Sight, "Threshold" for CBS, "Chicago Hope" and "Spin City". She can now be seen reprising her role on HBO's hit series "Entourage".
PABLO SCHREIBER (Eben Cabot) received a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut in Awake and Sing! Other theater credits include reasons to be pretty at MCC Theatre; Dying City at Lincoln Center Theater; Mr. Marmalade at Roundabout Theatre Company; Manuscript at Daryl Roth Theatre; Sin: A Cardinal Deposed at The New Group; Blood Orange at Blue Heron Arts Center; and Julius Caesar at the New York Shakespeare Film Festival. Schreiber will be seen in the upcoming film Tell Tale directed by Michael Cuesta. Other film credits include Vicky Cristina Barcelona directed by Woody Allen, Nights in Rodanthe directed by George C. Wolfe, The Lords of Dogtown, The Manchurian Candidate, Breaking Upwards, Favorite Son, Into the Fire, The Mudge Boy and Invitation to a Suicide. Television credits include "The Beast", "Life on Mars", "Army Wives", "Fear Itself", "Dirt", "The Wire", John Grisham's "A Painted House", "Law & Order", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", and "The Black Donnellys".
