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News Daniel Stern, Zoe Perry, John Schiappa Will Join Laurie Metcalf for Broadway's The Other Place The Broadway premiere of The Other Place, Sharr White's mysterious play about a doctor whose life is shaken, will feature the previously announced Laurie Metcalf, reprising her earlier Off-Broadway performance, plus Daniel Stern, Zoe Perry and John Schiappa.

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Laurie Metcalf in The Other Place. Photo by Joan Marcus

Manhattan Theatre Club announced casting for the Joe Mantello-directed production on Oct. 3. Performances will play the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre starting Dec. 11 prior to a Jan. 10, 2013, opening.

Schiappa (Assassins, Take Me Out) returns to the role he created when The Other Place had its world premiere in 2011 in the Mantello staging by MCC Theater.

Three-time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Metcalf ("Roseanne," November, London's Long Day's Journey Into Night), who was praised for her performance as a neurologist facing family and health issues, will be playing opposite her real-life daughter, Perry, who is making her Broadway debut. Daniel Stern is widely known for TV's "The Wonder Years," and the films "Diner," "Home Alone," "City Slickers," "Breaking Away." This marks his Broadway debut.

In the play, which is billed as a thriller, Metcalf plays Juliana Smithton, "a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged," according to MTC. "Her husband (Daniel Stern) has filed for divorce, her daughter (Zoe Perry) has eloped with a much older man (John Schiappa) and her own health is in jeopardy. But in this brilliantly crafted work, nothing is as it seems. Piece by piece, a mystery unfolds as fact blurs with fiction, past collides with present and the elusive truth about Juliana boils to the surface."

Mantello is the two-time Tony-winning director of Other Desert Cities, Wicked, Assassins, Take Me Out and Love! Valour! Compassion! For its extended spring 2011 run by MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, The Other Place was nominated for two Outer Critics Circle Awards, a Drama League Award, and three Lucille Lortel Awards. Metcalf won an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for her performance.

Zoe Perry
This marks the Broadway debut of White. His plays have been developed or produced at theatres across the country, including The Magic Theatre (West Coast premiere of The Other Place; premiere of Annapurna; finalist for a Steinberg/ATCA Award); South Coast Repertory (commissions for Annapurna and Sunlight); Marin Theatre Company (premiere of Sunlight; winner of the 2009 Skye Cooper New American Play Prize); Oregon Shakespeare Festival (development of The Other Place); Actors Theatre of Louisville (premiere of Six Years at the 2006 Humana Festival); The Cape Cod Theatre Project (playwright-in-residence).

The Other Place had its European premiere at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, where it is currently in repertory, and will premiere at the Melbourne Theatre Company in 2013. The Other Place was a recipient of the 2010 Playwrights First Award; the 2011 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation's Theatre Visions Fund Award; and was an Outer Critics Circle Award nominee for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.

The creative team for the production includes Eugene Lee (scenic design), David Zinn (costume design), Justin Townsend (lighting design), Fitz Patton (original music, sound design), William Cusick (projection design) and David Caparelliotis (casting).

This is a limited engagement to Feb. 24, 2013. Tickets for The Other Place are available by calling Telecharge at (212) 239-6200, online by visiting Telecharge.com, or by visiting the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Box Office at 261 W. 47th Street. Ticket prices are $67–$120.

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MTC is the resident not-for-profit that produces Off-Broadway at City Center Stage I and Stage II and on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. MTC productions have earned a total of 18 Tony Awards and six Pulitzer Prizes. This fall MTC unveils The Studio at Stage II – Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center, giving voice to new works and rising writers at an affordable ticket price.

Lynne Meadow is MTC artistic director and Barry Grove is executive producer. For more information, visit ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

 
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