Where Are They Now?
Remember how “Age of Innocence” at Hartford Stage was a co-production with the McCarter Theatre in New Jersey? Well, the show is at the McCarter Sept. 7 through Oct. 7 with nearly the same cast as when it premiered in Hartford back in April. Only one of the main players has changed: Joseph Adams is playing the multiple roles (including Julius Beaufort) that Nick Wyman handled in Hartford. Even several of the supporting ensemble members, drawn from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School, are the same. When the McCarter’s production of “Murder on the Orient Express” came to Hartford last season, nearly a year after it played New Jersey, there were a couple of big cast changes, including the actor who starred as Hercule Poirot.
Theresa Rebeck, the prolific playwright whose “The Understudy” was just at Westport Country Playhouse and who has had her plays done at Hartford Stage and Long Wharf, has a new show on Broadway (“Bernhardt/Hamlet,” starring Janet McTeer) and a new TV series in the works (the gaming comedy “It’s a Man’s World,” greenlit for a pilot by YouTube.
Dipika Guha, who graduated from Yale School of Drama in 2010 (where her play “Passing” was part of the school’s Carlotta Festival) and who now writes for the TV series “Sneaky Pete,” is one of six Los Angeles-based playwrights in a new residency program at L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse. Called “The Writer’s Room” and committed to “fostering bold, relevant work by the vibrant artistic community of Los Angeles, the inaugural group of six playwrights also includes Angelica Chéri, whose musical “Gun & Powder” was workshopped at Goodspeed, and Matt Schatz, whose “The Burdens” had a reading at The O’Neill Theater Center’s 2016 National Playwright’s Conference.