Lili Taylor will star in Dead Eye Boy by Angus MacLachlan at Off-Broadway's MCC Theatre, the New York Times reported. The show will run Jan. 18-Feb. 20, 2001.

Taylor last appeared on the New York stage in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Three Sisters, directed by Scott Elliott. She play the youngest of the sisters, Irina. Other credits include Richard Foreman's What Did He See?. On film, she has been seen in "High Fidelity," "Say Anything," "Mystic Pizza" and "Dogfight."

MCC traditionally stages new works but has made an exception with MacLachlan's Dead Eye Boy. The hard-edged drama is about an ex-Marine, a single mother (Taylor) and her 14-year-old son and their "struggle toward light," as MacLachlan described it to Playbill On-Line. "You have to face the darkness within yourself and the world," MacLachlan said, "otherwise it will destroy you and everyone else around you."

The play, which contains strong language and adult situations deemed inappropriate for children, ran in March and April at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. MacLachlan's play was developed after winning the 1999 Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize. MacLachlan is North Carolina-based. His eight other plays include Marginal Living, Buena Vista, Ariadne Duvall and Divertiment O. The latter two were produced in New York by Circle Repertory Theatre and The Wonderhouse Theatre, respectively. MacLachlan's, short film, Tater Tomater, aired on "American Playhouse" and was viewed at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival.

* About to start its 15th season, MCC is located at 120 W. 28 St. MCC has played a pivotal role in numerous artistic careers and has staged such shows as Wit, Good As New, The Grey Zone, Nixon's Nixon, Girl Gone, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Fun and Beirut. Last season MCC staged Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman's Trudy Blue and Jose Rivera's Sueno.

--Robert Simonson
and Murdoch McBride