Joyce, Lenox, McGarry to Join Jones on Doubt National Tour

Chris McGarry, Lisa Joyce, and Tony Award winner Adriane Lenox will join two-time Tony winner Cherry Jones on the national tour of John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Doubt, which begins its 24-city run on September 22 at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theater.

The tour will be directed by Doug Hughes, who won the Tony Award for helming the Broadway production, which closed earlier this month. As on Broadway, the show will be designed by John Lee Beatty (sets), Catherine Zuber (costumes), Pat Collins (lighting), and David Van Tieghem (sound and original music).

Lenox, who will recreate her Tony-winning role of Mrs. Mullen, will only play the tour’s first three cities: Los Angeles (through October 29), San Diego (October 31-November 5), and San Francisco (November 7-December 3). No announcement has been made about who will succeed her in the role.

Shanley’s play, which won every major award including the Tony, focuses on the strong-willed Sister Alouysis (Jones), the principal of a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, who suspects the church’s pastor, Father Flynn (McGarry) of abusing the school’s sole African-American student. She asks for help from the young Sister James (Joyce), leading to spiritual crises for all concerned.

McGarry’s New York stage credits include Salome, Defiance, and Flesh and Blood, which co-starred Jones. Joyce was most recently seen Off-Broadway in Red Light Winter. Lenox’s other Broadway credits include Kiss Me, Kate and Ain’t Misbehavin’. She won an Obie award for Dinah Was.