Grizzard, Marvel, Sternhagen, and Weller to Star in LCT Revival of Edward Albee’s Seascape

George Grizzard, Elizabeth Marvel, Frances Sternhagen,and Frederick Weller will star in the Lincoln Center Theatre”s revival of Edward Albee”s Seascape at the Booth Theater. The production, which will be directed by Mark Lamos, will run October 28- January 8, with an official opening on November 21.

The show will have sets by Michael Yeargan, costumes by Catherine Zuber, and lighting by Peter Kaczorowski. Yeargan and Zuber both won Tony Awards this year for The Light in the Piazza, which continues at LCT”s permanent home, The Vivian Beaumont Theater. Kaczorowski won the Tony Award for The Producers.

The original production of Seascape opened on Broadway in January 1975, starring Deborah Kerr, Barry Nelson, Frank Langella, and Maureen Anderman, and ran for 63 performances. The play concerns an elderly couple debating the direction in which their lives are headed now that the children are grown. It earned Albee the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. Albee is currently represented on Broadway with the revival of Who”s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Grizzard won a Tony Award as Best Actor for the LCT revival of Albee”s A Delicate Balance, and played Nick in the original Broadway production of Virginia Woolf. Marvel previously appeared in the LCT production of An American Daughter. A multiple Obie Award winner, her Off-Broadway credits include the New York Theatre Workshop productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Hedda Gabler, and Woody Allen”s A Second Hand Memory at the Atlantic.
Sternhagen has won Tony Awards for her roles in The Good Doctor and The Heiress, and was most recently seen on Broadway in Steel Magnolias. Weller is currently onstage in the Tony-winning revival of Glengarry Glen Ross. His other Broadway credits include Take Me Out and LCT”s The Little Foxes.

Lamos most recently directed the Shakespeare in the Park production of As You Like It. His other New York credits include Our Country”s Good, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination, and the LCT productions of The Rivals and Big Bill. For many years, Lamos was the artistic director of Hartford Stage Company, which won the Regional Theater Tony in 1989; he staged a production of the play there in 2002, also starring Grizzard.