Henry Winkler, Elizabeth Moss join Ruby Sunrise

 Henry Winkler (The Dinner Party, "Arrested Development") and Elizabeth Moss (Franny's Way, "The West Wing")will join Jayne Atkinson (Enchanted April, The Rainmaker, "24"), Asher Book ("Medium," "Zoey 101"), Jason Ritter ("The Class," Third) and Missy Yager (Diary of Anne Frank, "Boston Public") in the cast of Rinne Groff's The Ruby Sunrise. Part of the Los Angeles Theatre Works' "The Play's The Thing" radio theatre series, performances will be held March 14-18 at the Skirball Cultural Center and recorded for future broadcast. Brendan Fox will direct.

According to press notes, The Ruby Sunrise follows "the story of a young woman named Ruby, who, in 1927, struggles to turn her dream of the first all-electrical television system into a reality...Twenty-five years later, during the Golden Age of Television and amidst the fear and constraints of the McCarthy era, her daughter faces similar battles of will and crises of faith as she works to get Ruby's story told on network TV." It appeared in the 2004 Humana Festival and debuted Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in November 2005.

The 2006-07 "Voices from the Edge" season line-up also includes Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All The Luck (April 11-15); Charles Busch's The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (May 16-20); Melinda Lopez's Sonia Flew (June 13-17); and one last presentation, yet yo be announced, scheduled for a July 11-15 run.

LATW's nationally syndicated radio show "The Play's The Thing" series can be heard in cities across the country as well as on XM Satellite radio. The two-hour radio broadcasts include special backstage features and interviews with actors, playwrights and directors. For tickets to any of "The Play's The Thing" series productions at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Boulevard, call the L.A. Theatre Works box office at (310) 827-0889. For more information visit www.latw.org.

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