Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Starring Baldwin, Begins Previews Feb. 17

Scott Ellis (The Little Dog Laughed, Twelve Angry Men) will direct the show.  Entertaining Mr. Sloane is a play by Joe Orton (What the Butler Saw), that was first presented in London at the New Arts Theatre in May of 1964. "Shocking when it was first produced in the 1960s, this dark comedy is about a seemingly fresh-faced and innocent young man who takes up lodgings with a middle-aged spinster and ends up sexually manipulating the whole family," state press notes.

On Broadway, Baldwin recently appeared in The Roundabout Theatre Company's 2004 revival of Hecht and MacArthur's The Twentieth Century. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the 1992 revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, and was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the television movie of that same production. He won an Obie Award for the 1991 off-Broadway production of Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss and a Theatre World Award in 1986 for his turn in Joe Orton's Loot on Broadway. He has also performed on Broadway in Caryl Churchill's Serious Money. Other stage includes David Mamet's Life in the Theatre, (directed by the late AJ Antoon), the Williamstown Theatre Festival and at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, New York, where he performed in Ira Lewis's Gross Points. His many films include The Hunt for Red October, Malice, Prelude to a Kiss, Glengarry Glen Ross, Ghosts of Mississippi, Pearl Harbor, The Aviator and The Cooler, for which he received an Oscar nomination.

For tickets and more information, visit www.roundabouttheater.org.