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.
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