Ed Harris to star 'Good for Otto' in New York
Posted 2017. 6. 29. 21:47Winter 2018:
Good for Otto by David Rabe. Directed by Scott Elliott.
Featuring Ed Harris and Amy Madigan; additional casting to be announced.
New York premiere production begins previews February 2018 in The Alice
Griffin Jewel Box Theatre (480 West 42nd Street).
Through the microcosm of a rural Connecticut mental health center, Tony Award-winning playwright David Rabe conjures a whole American community on the edge. Like their patients and their families, Dr. Michaels (Ed Harris), his colleague Evangeline (Amy Madigan) and the clinic itself teeter between breakdown and survival, wielding dedication and humanity against the cunning, inventive adversary of mental illness, to hold onto the need to fight – and to live. Inspired by a real clinic, Rabe finds humor and compassion in a raft of richly drawn characters adrift in a society and a system stretched beyond capacity. Scott Elliott directs an ensemble cast of fourteen in this New York premiere of Good for Otto for The New Group.
This marks a return for playwright David Rabe to The New Group. Earlier, The New Group presented widely acclaimed revivals of David Rabe’s Hurlyburly and Sticks and Bones, both directed by Scott Elliott; and the world premiere of An Early History of Fire, directed by Jo Bonney. Additionally, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan return to The New Group with this production. Previously, they appeared at The New Group in the acclaimed Off-Broadway productions of Beth Henley’s The Jacksonian, directed by Robert Falls, and Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, directed by Scott Elliott. Ed Harris and Amy Madigan also appeared on the West End, in the London production of The New Group’s Buried Child.
Good for Otto premiered at the Gift Theatre in Chicago, directed by Michael Patrick Thornton (October 5, 2015 – February 7, 2016).