J. Smith-Cameron Departs Apple Family for REGULAR SINGING
By: Nicole Rosky Aug. 09, 2013
As The Public Theater announced yesterday, the Apple family will return in October with REGULAR SINGING, Richard Nelson's fourth and final play in this captivating series. It will open on Friday, November 22, 2013 - the 50th Anniversary of JFK's assassination that shocked the world. The world premiere of the fourth and final play in this powerful and timely series will feature Maryann Plunkett (Barbara), Jay O. Sanders (Richard), Laila Robins (Marian), Jon Devries (Benjamin), Stephen Kunken (Tim), and Sally Murphy (Jane).
According to the New York Times, previous member of the Apple Family, J. Smith-Cameron, who played Jane in the first three plays, had to depart the series due to scheduling conflicts with her Sundance Channel television series "Rectify". She told NYT that "The Public Theater needed a commitment from her in June, before the "Rectify" filming schedule was known."
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These plays about family, politics, change, and the way we live today burst with remarkable immediacy. Each of THE APPLE FAMILY PLAYS originally premiered on the night on which it is set. In THAT HOPEY CHANGEY THING, the Apples reflect on the state of their family and discuss memory, manners and politics as polls close on mid-term election night 2010 and a groundswell of conservative sentiment flips Congress on its head. In SWEET AND SAD, a family brunch stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change. And SORRY, which premiered last fall, finds the Apples sorting through family anxieties and confusion on the day of electing the President.
THE APPLE FAMILY PLAYS will begin performances on Tuesday, October 22 and run through Sunday, December 15.
Single tickets for The Public Theater's Fall 2013 Season are available now by calling (212) 967-7555, www.publictheater.org, or in person at the Taub Box Office at The Public Theater at Astor Place at 425 Lafayette Street. The Library at The Public will also be open nightly for food and drink, beginning at 5:30 p.m., and Joe's Pub will continue to offer some of the best music in the city.
Photo by Walter McBride
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