Helen Stenborg and Malcolm Gets Set For Off-Broadway's 'VIGIL' 9/20 - 11/22

The New York Times is reporting that Malcolm Gets and Helen Stenborg will star in the dark comedy Vigil at the DR 2 Theatre, September 20th through November 22nd.

Vigil is a new comedy by the Canadian playwright and director Morris Panych.

"A heartwarming, yet very funny comedy, Vigil tells of a self-obsessed nephew summoned to the deathbed of his aunt to whom he hasn't spoken in 30 years. Busfield plays Kemp, for whom childhood was anything but normal. His list of early age traumas include: A Rumanian dwarf tutor, force-fed accordion lessons and a fear of the dark until age 18. Not wanting to revisit a moment of it, Kemp successfully has avoided all family contact. That is, until the day he was guilted into taking care of his dying aunt, played by Stenborg," explain press notes.

Helen Stenborg last appeared on Broadway in The Crucible with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney. Prior to that, she appeared in Waiting in the Wings, receiving a Tony nomination. She and her husband, Barnard Hughes, were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Drama Desk in 2000. Other Broadway credits include A Month in the Country with Helen Mirren, and A Life.

Malcolm Gets recently starred opposite Will Chase in the Broadway musical The Story of My Life and was seen as George 'Gould' Strong in the HBO film "Grey Gardens." He played opposite Kristin Chenoweth in the Encores! production of The Apple Tree, and starred in the Broadway musical Amour. His off-Broadway credits include Polish Joke, Boys and Girls, A New Brain, Hello Again, Merrily We Roll Along, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Finian's Rainbow and the Encores! The Boys From Syracuse. He is perhaps best known for his work on the television series "Caroline in the City."

Timothy Busfield and Helen Stenborg starred in Vigil at The Westport Country Playhouse in March 2008.

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