James Franco directs the off-Broadway production of Robert Boswell's The Long Shrift, opening July 13. THR's review praised the cast of Pam MacKinnon's off-Broadway production but was less convinced by the play, written by Sarah Treem ( House of Cards), which is set against the rise of the feminist movement in the early 1970s in a quiet bed-and-breakfast that doubles as an underground shelter for abused women. Zoe Kazan joins the cast of When We Were Young and Unafraid, alongside Cherry Jones, Cherise Boothe, Patch Darragh and Morgan Saylor, the young Homeland regular making her stage debut. (Rabe even opted out of a role in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 to be part of this production.) THR's review notes that any magical chemistry "remains stubbornly elusive for much of their stage time," but adds that both performances improve once the characters are forced to acknowledge their hidden feelings. Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater play the marriage-phobic Beatrice and Benedick in director Jack O'Brien's al fresco staging of one of William Shakespeare's most popular romantic comedies, Much Ado About Nothing. Greta Gerwig makes her stage debut in The Village Bike, replacing Maggie Gyllenhaal (who was cast in the fall Broadway revival of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing) in the off-Broadway production that opened June 10. THR's review applauds the Boardwalk Empire actor, saying, "Shannon delivers a consistently compelling performance marked by doses of antic humor." Michael Shannon plays a man attempting to track down a serial killer in Eugene Ionesco's rarely seen dark comedy, The Killer, directed by Darko Tresnjak, a Tony winner this year for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.
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