Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Lucas Hnath鈥檚 Hilary and Clinton, which will begin performances May 1 at the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago.
Hnath 鈥� whose play The Christians recently played an acclaimed engagement at Playwrights Horizons 鈥� pens the new work about a woman named Hillary, who is running for president. Directed by VGT鈥檚 artistic director Chay Yew, the cast features Cheryl Lynn Bruce as Hillary, John Apicella as Bill, Keith Kupferer as Mark and Juan Francisco Villa as the other guy.
鈥淚magine that in an alternate universe, very much like our own, is another world where a woman named Hillary is trying to become president of a country called the United States of America,鈥� states of Hillary and Clinton. 鈥淚n a hotel room in New Hampshire in 2008, Hillary is poised to lose her last Primary Election. When her husband Bill arrives in the middle of the night to offer support, he turns the campaign upside down.鈥� Performances are scheduled to run in Chicago through May 1.
贬苍补迟丑鈥檚 Red Speedo is currently running Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop.
