Scott Ellis will direct the New York production, which is scheduled to begin previews April 23 and open May 19 at the midtown stage. The run is currently slated through June 1.
Set "against a backdrop of 1980's privilege and power," Good Boys and True follows "a disturbing scandal at an all-boys prep school [that] forces a mother (Smith-Cameron) to confront the truth about her son (Smith) and herself," show notes reveal.
In addition to Overbey (The Coast of Utopia), Brian J. Smith (Come Back, Little Sheba) and Smith-Cameron (After the Night and the Music), the cast will also feature Christopher Abbott and Betty Gilpin.
The design team includes Derek McLane (scenic), Tom Broeker (costume), Kenneth Posner (lighting) and Lewis Flinn (sound).
Second Stage has helped nurture the talent of playwright Aguirre-Sacasa. His The Mystery Plays performed as part of the troupe's Uptown series in 2004. At the midtown stage, he served as the NEA/TCG Playwright-in-Residence during the 2004 and 2005 seasons and currently is part of the Time Warner Commissioning Program Theatre. Good Boys and True made its world premiere with Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in a production staged by Pam McKinnon (Peter and Jerry) in December 2007.
Aguirre-Sacasa has also penned the plays Based on a Totally True Story, Dark Matters, The Muckle Man, The Velvet Sky, Rough Magic, The Weird, Golden Age and Say You Love Satan. He has also served as a writer for HBO's "Big Love," a developing Fox series "Howl" and Marvel Comics' "Angel: Revelations" and "The Dead of Night: Man-Thing."
Director Ellis is currently represented on Broadway by Curtains and regionally by the national tour of Twelve Angry Men. He last staged The Little Dog Laughed at Second Stage. Other credits include The Boys From Syracuse, The Rainmaker, 1776, She Loves Me, Picnic, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Waverly Gallery and the NYC Opera staging of A Little Night Music.
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