Rob Ruggiero directs a cast including Erika Rolfsrud and Dylan Chalfy as Becca and Howard Corbett, the couple central to the heartbreaking drama. Rolfsrud understudied Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon in the role of Becca in Rabbit Hole's Broadway bow. The TheaterWorks cast also includes Joey Parsons (Disorderly Conduct) as Izzy, Jo Twiss (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) as Nat and newcomer Alec Silberblatt as Jason.
A co-production with the Pittsburgh Public Theater, Rabbit Hole officially opens in Hartford June 11 and will continue through July 20.
The creative team includes Luke Hegel-Cantarella (set design), Anne Kenney (costume design), John Lasiter (lighting design) and Vincent Olivieri (sound design).
Rabbit Hole earned five 2006 Tony Award nominations, including Best Play. The production starred Cynthia Nixon, John Slattery, Tyne Daly, John Gallagher Jr. and Mary Catherine Garrison. Lindsay-Abaire has also penned Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and is at work on book and lyrics for Broadway's Shrek with composer Jeanine Tesori.
Tickets to Rabbit Hole at TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl Street in Hartford, CT, are available by calling (860) 527-7838. For more information visit the TheaterWorks website at theaterworkshartford.org.