Casting Set for Frank's Home; Opens at Playwrights, 1/30

The Chicago cast of Frank's Home will reprise their roles in Playwrights Horizons' production of Richard Nelson's play, which is set to begin previews at the company's Mainstage Theater on January 13th, 2007, open on January 30th and run through February 18th.

The new play about architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which is currently a hit at the Goodman Theater, will star Peter Weller (Summer Brave, Full Circle, Robocop films, "24") and Harris Yulin (Fran's Bed, Hedda Gabler, The Price), as well as Mary Beth Fisher as Frank's mistress Miriam Noel, Maggie Siff as his daughter Catherine, Jay Whitaker as his son Lloyd, Jeremy Strong as his assistant William, Chris Henry Coffey as Catherine's husband Kenneth, and Holley Fain as Helen, a schoolteacher.  Weller will play Frank Lloyd Wright, with Yulin as fellow architect and mentor Louis Sullivan.

"It is summer, 1923, and architect Frank Lloyd Wright has recently left Chicago for California, determined to embrace Hollywood's youthful zest and mend broken relationships with his adult children. Having recently completed his latest 'wonder of the world' — Tokyo's Imperial Hotel — Wright is poised to settle down and embrace his new home. But his splintered family still holds deep-seated resentments," state press materials on the play, which will once again be directed by Robert Falls (Shining City, Aida).

The design team will include: Tom Lynch (sets), Susan Hilferty (costumes), Michael Philippi (lights), and Richard Woodbury (sound).

Nelson's other plays include Franny's Way, Rodney's Wife, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Madame Melville and The Vienna Notes; he also wrote the books of the musicals James Joyce's The Dead and My Life with Albertine.

Frank's Home runs at Chicago's Goodman Theatre through December 24th.  Visit www.playwrightshorizons.org or www.goodmantheatre.org for more information.

Photo by Michael Bresilow