O'Hara, Moayed join 'Lear'

O'HaraMoayed Gilliam Kelli O'Hara, Arian Moayed and Seth Gilliam are probably the thesps to possess became a member of the cast from the approaching manufacture of "King Lear" at Off Broadway's Public Theater, where they'll appear opposite Mike Waterston because the title character.O'Hara, noted for her Broadway tuner output including "South Off-shore" and "The Pajama Game," will have talking daughter Regan within the show. Moayed, lately nommed for any Tony for his role in "Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo," is cast because the upstanding Edgar while Gilliam ("The Wire") seems as his jealous half-brother Edmund.Michael McKean and John Douglas Thompson are also aboard for that production, to become staged by helmer James Macdonald ("Top Women," "Drunk Enough to express I Really Like You?"). "Lear" was last seen in the Public inside a 2007 revival that starred Kevin Kline.The most recent "Lear" is going to be among a number of Bard choices this year in the Public, the organization which produces the Shakespeare around the block series every summer time. More compact-scale stagings of "Love's Labor's Lost" and "Titus Andronicus" are also on tap."Lear" starts previews March. 18 in front of a November. 8 opening. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com