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Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie will direct Terrence McNally's Golden Age, when it performs at The Kennedy Center, running March 12-April 4. He replaces Austin Pendleton, who recently helmed the world premiere production for the Philadelphia Theatre Company.

Golden Age takes place backstage at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris on the evening of January 24, 1835, as Vincenzo Bellini's opera, I Puritani premieres. The play will be presented as part of the Kennedy Center's Nights at the Opera, a five-week event featuring three of the playwright's works performed concurrently on three Kennedy Center stages, and which also include Master Class (March 25-April 18), directed by Stephen Wadsworth and starring Tyne Daly, and The Lisbon Traviata (March 20-April 11).

The company will continue to feature the majority of the cast from the Philadelphia run: Rebecca Brooksher, Jeffrey Carlson, Roe Hartrampf, Marc Kudisch, Hoon Lee, Christopher Michael McFarland, George Morfogen, and Amanda Mason Warren. They will be joined by Benjamin Cook in the role of the Page.

The creative team will feature Santo Loquasto (scenic design), Richard St. Clair (costume design), Jason Lyons (lighting design), and Ryan Rumery (sound design).

Bobbie won a Tony for his direction of Chicago, and is currently represented Off-Broadway for his direction of Classic Stage Company's Venus in Fur.

For further information, visit www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org or www.kennedy-center.org.