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News Lonergan’s Waverly Gallery Opens for Business Off-Broadway, March 22 Kenneth Lonergan's latest, The Waverly Gallery, officially opens it doors for business at the Promenade Theatre, Off-Broadway, March 22 (after previews from March 3). The cast much resembles the original Williamstown Theatre Festival production. Joining star Eileen Heckart will be Maureen Anderman, Anthony Arkin (Power Plays), Mark Blum (Lost in Yonkers) and Josh Hamilton (As Bees in Honey Drown). Hamilton recently starred in Sexual Perversity in Chicago at the Atlantic Theatre Company.

Kenneth Lonergan's latest, The Waverly Gallery, officially opens it doors for business at the Promenade Theatre, Off-Broadway, March 22 (after previews from March 3). The cast much resembles the original Williamstown Theatre Festival production. Joining star Eileen Heckart will be Maureen Anderman, Anthony Arkin (Power Plays), Mark Blum (Lost in Yonkers) and Josh Hamilton (As Bees in Honey Drown). Hamilton recently starred in Sexual Perversity in Chicago at the Atlantic Theatre Company.

Scott Ellis will direct. Anita Waxman, Elizabeth Williams and Randall L. Wreghitt produce.

The Waverly Gallery premiered this past summer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In the play, aged owner Green (Heckart) fights to hold on to her gallery, even as Alzheimer's disease takes possession of her mind.

Late in the Williamstown run, Joanne Woodward substituted for an ailing Heckart. Reportedly, Woodward filled in during the final four shows, carrying out her duties script in hand.

Heckart won an Oscar for her turn in "Butterflies Are Free". More recent credits include Terrence McNally and Jon Robin Baitz's House at the Bay Street Theatre. Scott Ellis' many credits include the currently running Broadway revival of The Rainmaker.

Lonergan's biggest success to date was This Is Our Youth, which opened Off-Broadway (starring Hamilton) to great acclaim under the aegis of The New Group, and then remained in limbo for over a season while it waited to reopen in a commercial, Off-Broadway house. Lonergan also contributed to the screenplay of the film, "Analyze This."

-- By Robert Simonson

 
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