Rashad, Rubin-Vega, Murphy Cast in LaChiusa's The House of Bernarda Alba

By Robert Simonson
22 Nov 2005

Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad
Photo by Aubrey Reuben

Yolande Bavan, Candy Buckley, Nikki M. James, Sally Murphy, Phylicia Rashad, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Saundra Santiago, Laura Shoop and Nancy Ticotin will be in the cast of Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre's production of Michael John LaChiusa's new musical based on Federico Garcia Lorca's famous work, The House of Bernarda Alba.

The show will begin previews Feb. 11 and open March 6. Direction and choreography will be by Graciela Daniele

Bernarda Alba is the story of "a newly-widowed mother (Rashad), who enforces her iron will on her large household, only to have her daughters (to be played by James, Murphy, Rubin-Vega and Santiago) overwhelm her tyranny."

The cast will also feature Yolande Bavan, Candy Buckley, Laura Shoop and Nancy Ticotin.

LaChiusa's Hello, Again and Marie Christine were produced at the nonprofit. Daniele has directed such LCT shows as LaChiusa's Marie Christine and Chronicle of a Death Foretold, as well as such Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens works as Once on This Island and the recent Dessa Rose.

The prolific LaChiusa enjoyed some of his best reviews in years for See What I Wanna See, now playing at the Public Theater.