Clayburgh, Brown, Dossett, Etc. Set to Clean House for LCT

Lincoln Center Theatre has appointed its upcoming production of Sarah Ruhl's The Clean House with a starry cast that will include Tony Award-winner Blair Brown and Oscar-nominee Jill Clayburgh.  The show will have its previously announced New York premiere at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, where it will begin previews on October 5th, open on October 30th and run through December 17th.

The New York premiere of Ruhl's comedy-drama, which has become a regional theatre favorite, will star Brown (Tony for Copenhagen, James Joyce's The Dead, Cabaret) as Lane, a high-powered doctor, and Clayburgh (The Busy World is Hushed, Barefoot in the Park) as her more open-minded sister Virginia.  Vanessa Aspillaga (Anna in the Tropics) will play Matilde, the quirky Brazilian cleaning woman who is hired to clean the doctor's house, and is more interested in coming up with the world's funniest joke.  John Dossett (The Constant Wife, Democracy, Gypsy) will play Charles, Lane's kind-hearted but conflicted husband.  Concetta Tomei ("Providence") will round out the cast as Ana, the free-spirited new woman in Charles' life.

Bill Rauch will direct The Clean House.  It's previously-announced creative team comprise Christopher Acebo (sets), Shigeru Yaji (costumes), Jim Ingalls (lighting) and Andre Pluess (sound design and music). 

The winner of the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist, the play has been seen in numerous regional venues already, including Washington, D.C.'s Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C., Chicago's Goodman Theatre, and the Cincinnati Playhouse.  It originally premiered at Yale Rep.   Ruhl's other plays include Melancholy Play, Eurydice, Late: A Cowboy Song and Passion Play.

This fall, Lincoln Center Theater will also present the American premiere of Tom Stoppard's three-part play, The Coast of Utopia directed by Jack O'Brien, at the Vivian Beaumont Theater beginning performances October 17.