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News Baitz's Ten Unknowns, with Donald Sutherland, Begins at LCT Feb. 8 Jon Robin Baitz' new play Ten Unknowns, starring Donald Sutherland in his first New York stage appearance in 20 years, and Julianna Margulies, will begin previews at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on Feb. 8. Justin Kirk and Denis O'Hare are also in the cast. Daniel Sullivan, an old hand at Baitz' dramas, directs. Opening is set for March 8.

Jon Robin Baitz' new play Ten Unknowns, starring Donald Sutherland in his first New York stage appearance in 20 years, and Julianna Margulies, will begin previews at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on Feb. 8. Justin Kirk and Denis O'Hare are also in the cast. Daniel Sullivan, an old hand at Baitz' dramas, directs. Opening is set for March 8.

Ten Unknowns will run through April 15.

In the play, Sutherland will play Malcolm, a once promising, now obscure painter, living in Mexico. Margulies is Julia, a researcher studying a breed of frog that is on the verge of extinction. The two meet and become lovers.

Sutherland recently appeared in Enigma Variations in London. At one point, the play had Broadway aspirations, but those were perhaps halted when the show earned largely negative reviews in the West End. Sutherland's last appearance on the New York stage was in Edward Albee's short-lived Lolita.

Margulies is the well-known star of the television program "ER." Kirk starred in the original cast of Love! Valour! Compassion!. O'Hare, whose Broadway credits include Cabaret, recently played Macbeth at Hartford Stage, and Osric in a cable movie of Hamlet. In the last year, Sullivan directed A Moon for the Misbegotten on Broadway, Proof at Manhattan Theatre Club and, later, Broadway, and Spinning Into Butter at LCT.

Playbill On-Line first reported the addition of Baitz' new drama to the LCT roster in March of 2000.

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Baitz's A Fair Country was seen at LCT a few seasons back. Since then, Manhattan Theatre Club has staged his Mizlansky/Zilinsky, while his adaptation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler was seen in L.A., in a staging starring Annette Bening, and will soon come to Broadway in a production featuring Kate Burton. Baitz's other works include The Film Society and The Substance of Fire.

—By Robert Simonson

 
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