Amanda Quaid, Steven Skybell, Nick Westrate and More Join F. Murray Abraham for Galileo Off-Broadway

By Kenneth Jones
03 Jan 2012

F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham

Complete casting for Classic Stage Company's new production of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, starring Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham as the persecuted scientist, has been announced. The drama, translated by Charles Laughton and directed by CSC artistic director Brian Kulick, begins performances Feb. 1.

Tickets for the run at CSC's home at 136 E. 13th Street are now on sale. Performances play to March 11. Opening night is Feb 12.

Abraham will be joined by Jon DeVries, Robert Dorfman, Aaron Himelstein, Andy Phelan, Amanda Quaid, Steve Rattazzi, Steven Skybell and Nick Westrate.

The creative team includes scenic designer Adrianne Lobel, lighting designer Justin Townsend, costume designer Oana Botez-Ban and original music and sound design by Christian Frederickson and Ryan Rumery.

Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, according to CSC, "Galileo explores the question of a scientist's social and ethical responsibility, as the brilliant scientist Galileo must choose between his life and his life's work when confronted with the Inquisition."

Abraham won the Best Actor Oscar for the film "Amadeus." He made his Broadway debut in Man in the Glass Booth directed by Harold Pinter. His stage credits include the 20th anniversary production of Caretaker, Waiting for Godot directed by Mike Nichols, and plays by Sophocles, Aristophanes, Jonson, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Molière, Fadeaux, Giraudoux, Rostand, Chekhov, Joyce Carol Oates, Pirandello, Beckett, Pinter, Miller, McNally, Guare, Shepard and others.

Galileo's performance schedule is Tuesdays at 7 PM; Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 PM; Saturdays & Sundays at 3 PM. Tickets are $60-$65. For tickets and information, visit www.classicstage.org or call (866) 811-4111 or (212) 352-3101, or visit the CSC box office Monday-Friday noon to 6 PM.

visit the theatre’s website at www.classicstage.org.