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Francis Guinan, Tracy Letts, Laurie Metcalf, Amy Morton, et al. Set for Steppenwolf’s 2010-2011 Season

Laurie Metcalf
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Laurie Metcalf
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

The Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced additional casting for its previously reported 2010-2011 season.

The season will open with Detroit (September 9 – November 7), a new play from Lisa D’Amour about a neighborly friendship with some unexpected complications. The company will feature Kevin Anderson, Kate Arrington, Ian Barford, Robert Breuler and Laurie Metcalf.

Tracy Letts and Amy Morton will star in a revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (December 2 – February 6), to be directed by Pam MacKinnon.

In the new year, Jessica Thebus will direct Sally Murphy and Stephen Louis Grush in Laura Eason’s Sex with Strangers (January 20 – May 15), which focuses on two writers who find their casual online and sexual relationship has deeper meaning.

A revival of Lanford Wilson’s The Hot L Baltimore (March 24 – May 29), directed by Tina Landau, will feature Alana Arenas, K. Todd Freeman, Yasen Peyankov, and Allison Torem.

The season will conclude with Will Eno’s look at a pregnant woman’s arrival in a new city, Middletown (June 16 – August 14), to be directed by Les Waters and featuring Alana Arenas, Francis Guinan, Martha Lavey and Tracy Letts, and Michael Patrick Thornton.

For further information, visit: www.steppenwolf.org.