Christina Ricci Returns to N.Y. Stage in 'Midsummer'

NY (AP) Christina Ricci's stage debut this past year apparently did not scare her off she's returning.Producers stated Tuesday the "Pan Am" star will join two-time Tony Award champion Bebe Neuwirth inside a Classic Stage Company manufacture of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."The off-Broadway show will start performances March 28 and play through May 6. Neuwirth will act as Titania. Ricci will possess the role of Hermia.Ricci made her Broadway debut last season in Jesse Margulies' "Time Stands Still," changing Alicia Silverstone and starring opposite Laura Linney, John d'Arcy James and Eric Bogosian.Ricci burst to the scene in 1990 as Cher's daughter in "Mermaids" and it has built a lengthy listing of film credits, including "The Addams Family," ''The Ice Storm," ''Speed Racer" and "Penelope."Elizabeth Marvel to Rejoin 'Other Desert Cities'NY (AP) Elizabeth Marvel, who had been area of the original off-Broadway cast of "Other Desert Metropolitan areas," will join the show on Broadway.Lincoln subsequently Center Theater stated Tuesday that Marvel will replace Rachel Griffiths in Jon Robin Baitz's experience March 6.Marvel, who produced the role of novelist Brooke Wyeth when "Other Desert Metropolitan areas" first showed off-Broadway this past year, will rejoin fellow original cast people Stockard Channing and Stacy Keach.Griffiths' final performance is going to be March 4.The play is all about a wealthy, dysfunctional family wrestling having a deep secret. It opened up this winter in the Booth Theatre to critical praise.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. PHOTO CREDIT Jason Merritt/Getty Images NY (AP) Christina Ricci's stage debut this past year apparently did not scare her off she's returning.Producers stated Tuesday the "Pan Am" star will join two-time Tony Award champion Bebe Neuwirth inside a Classic Stage Company manufacture of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."The off-Broadway show will start performances March 28 and play through May 6. Neuwirth will act as Titania. Ricci may have the role of Hermia.Ricci made her Broadway debut last season in Jesse Margulies' "Time Stands Still," changing Alicia Silverstone and starring opposite Laura Linney, John d'Arcy James and Eric Bogosian.Ricci burst to the scene in 1990 as Cher's daughter in "Mermaids" and it has built a lengthy listing of film credits, including "The Addams Family," ''The Ice Storm," ''Speed Racer" and "Penelope."Elizabeth Marvel to Rejoin 'Other Desert Cities'NY (AP) Elizabeth Marvel, who had been area of the original off-Broadway cast of "Other Desert Metropolitan areas," will join the show on Broadway.Lincoln subsequently Center Theater stated Tuesday that Marvel will replace Rachel Griffiths in Jon Robin Baitz's experience March 6.Marvel, who produced the role of novelist Brooke Wyeth when "Other Desert Metropolitan areas" first showed off-Broadway this past year, will rejoin fellow original cast people Stockard Channing and Stacy Keach.Griffiths' final performance is going to be March 4.The play is all about a wealthy, dysfunctional family wrestling having a deep secret. It opened up this winter in the Booth Theatre to critical praise.Copyright 2011 Connected Press. All privileges reserved. These components might not be released, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.