Performances will play at the Temple of Music and Art in Tucson Oct. 17-Nov. 7. It continues its run in Phoenix at the Herberger Theater Center Nov. 12-Dec. 6.

According to ATC, "In George is Dead, Marlo Thomas plays Doreen, the socialite wife of a right-wing Republican named George, played by Don Murray. On her way to a fundraiser, driven by a possibly illegal immigrant, she ends up at the home of a former employee and her left-wing husband. How? Why? Do they kill her? Reject her? Adopt her? Is George really dead? Arizona audiences will have to see this comedy by the award-winning writer of 'The Birdcage,' 'Primary Colors' and 'Heaven Can Wait' to find out!"

The cast also features Julia Brothers (seen in Moving Right Along, an early version of George is Dead), Carman Lacivita (Broadway's Cyrano de Bergerac), Reese Madigan (Broadway's Abe Lincoln in Illinois and Holiday, Off-Broadway's Adult Entertainment by Elaine May), Elizabeth Shepherd (seen in the West End, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and the Shaw Festival in Canada) and Roberto Guajardo (ATC's To Kill a Mockingbird).

May started her career in The Second City, where she began a successful partnership with Mike Nichols. The two appeared in clubs, on TV and Broadway. May earned a Drama Desk Award for her play Adaptation, a one-act which she directed along with Terrence McNally's Next. Other plays that she has penned include Death Defying Acts, Taller than a Dwarf, Adult Entertainment, Power Plays and After the Night and the Music. She wrote, directed and starred in her first film, "A New Leaf," with Walter Matthau. She wrote and directed "Mikey & Nicky," starring Peter Falk and John Cassavetes. She directed "The Heartbreak Kid" and received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of "Heaven Can Wait." Her acting credits in film include "California Suite," "Enter Laughing," "In the Spirit" and "Small Time Crooks" (National Film Critics Award). She wrote the screenplays for "The Birdcage" and "Primary Colors" (British Academy of Film and Television Award), which reunited her with Mike Nichols, who directed both films.

Thomas (Doreen) appeared on Broadway in The Shadow Box, Social Security and Thieves. Off-Broadway, she has been seen in The Vagina Monologues, The Guys and The Exonerated, and she was seen in the national tour of Six Degrees of Separation. Famous as the star of TV's "That Girl," she won an Emmy Award for the TV movie "Nobody's Child." She also created "Free to Be...You and Me" TV specials, books and records, as well as the bestselling books, "The Right Words at the Right Time, Volumes 1 and 2." She is the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which was founded by her father, Danny Thomas, in 1962. She lives in New York with her husband Phil Donahue.

The creative team for George is Dead includes John Arnone (scenic designer), Sam Fleming (costume designer), Kurt Landisman (lighting designer), Brian Jerome Peterson (resident sound designer). Bruno Ingram is the stage manager.

The production is presented in association with Julian Schlossberg, who has produced a number of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, including Sly Fox, Fortune's Fool, The Unexpected Man, Madame Melville, Taller than a Dwarf, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Power Plays, If Love Were All, Death Defying Acts and Vita & Virginia.

For tickets and more information, visit www.arizonatheatre.org or by calling the box office at (520) 622-2823.