Tony Award winner Doug Hughes directs the Roundabout Theatre Company presentation, which also stars Alvin Epstein, Elizabeth Franz, Jessica Hecht and Euan Morton. Previews began Feb. 2 at the Laura Pels Theater for a limited run through May 6. Told through a series of flashbacks, Howard Katz centers on the downward spiral of the eponymous cutthroat talent agent whose life has taken a turn for the worse. Marber directed the world premiere of his work in June 2001 at London's National Theater's Cottesloe space.

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At left (from top): Jessica Hecht and Alfred Molina; director Doug Hughes and his mother, actress Helen Stenborg; Euan Morton; Alvin Epstein and Elizabeth Franz; Sarah Miller, Natalie Gold and Charlotte Parry; set designer Scott Pask; Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich; Sara Gettelfinger; Charles Randolph-Wright; Julie Dale, Ann Collins and Jim Dale; Dana Ivey.

Below: The cast of Howard Katz takes their opening-night bows.

photos by Aubrey Reuben