Goldfarb, Domingues and Busillo Cast in His Greatness for FringeNYC

By Adam Hetrick
23 Jul 2009

The U.S. premiere of Daniel MacIvor's His Greatness, a Tennessee Williams' inspired fantasy, will play the Cherry Lane Theatre as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.

Tom Gualtieri (Right You Are) directs the engagement that will run Aug. 14-30. The cast features Helen Hayes Award nominee Peter Goldfarb (Old Wicked Songs) as The Playwright, Dan Domingues (Night Sky) as The Assistant and Michael Busillo (Texas Homos).

Press notes for MacIvor's play read: "Three men, a great American playwright, his trusted and loyal assistant, and a young Canadian street hustler, find themselves together for two days in a hotel room in Vancouver. His Greatness is a voyage through the mind of a great American playwright - potentially Tennessee Williams - presenting the man as he's never been seen before, grasping at straws of his former glory, pleading for some form of rebirth."

The FringeNYC production has a creative team including Tania Bijlani (set design), Seth Reiser (lighting design) and Ciera Wells (costume design).

MacIvor is also the author of See Bob Run, Never Swim Alone, You Are Here, In On It, How It Works, A Beautiful View and Communion.

Tickets for the 2009 FringeNYC will go on sale July 24. For further information phone (866) 468-7619 or visit FringeNYC.