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Ron Rifkin, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor to Reprise Roles in Baitz's Paris Letter in L.A.

By Ernio Hernandez
23 Jan 2008

Neil Patrick Harris
photo by Aubrey Reuben

Ron Rifkin, John Glover, Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Radnor and Patricia Wettig will star in Jon Robin Baitz's The Paris Letter for Los Angeles Theatre Works.

Part of the company's "The Play's The Thing" radio theatre series, performances play Feb. 20-24 at the Skirball Cultural Center and are recorded for future broadcast.

Peter Levin directs the company, which features world-premiere cast members Rifkin ("Alias"), Harris and Radnor (both of "How I Met Your Mother") and Wettig ("thirtysomething") — from the 2004 run at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theater. Glover ("Smallville"), who appeared in the Off-Broadway run (at The Roundabout Theatre Company's Laura Pels Theatre) of the Baitz work with Rifkin, also returns.

Baitz, known to television audiences for his show "Brothers & Sisters," penned The Paris Letter, which centers on "Wall Street powerhouse Sandy Sonenberg [who] finds his personal and professional life threatened by the unraveling secrets of his past. After burying his true sexual identity, a lethal affair with a young male associate forces Sonenberg to confront a lifetime of unrequited love and betrayal."

The season will continue with Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons' Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers (March 12-16), Julie Marie Myatt's Boats on a River (April 9-13), Noël Coward's Tonight at 8:30 (May 12-18), Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (June 18-22) and Neil Simon's Broadway Bound (July 9-13).

LATW's nationally syndicated radio show "The Play's The Thing" series can be heard in cities across the country, including Boston, Seattle, Albuquerque as well as on XM Satellite radio. The two-hour radio broadcasts include special backstage features and interviews with actors, playwrights and directors. The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in book stores, libraries, through their catalog or digitally on audible.com, the L.A. Theatre Works website and iTunes.

For tickets to any of "The Play's The Thing" productions at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Boulevard, call the L.A. Theatre Works box office at (310) 827-0889. For more information visit latw.org.




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