Cathey, Nielsen, Weller, Yulin, et al. Set for Playwrights Horizons Season

Reg E. Cathey, Kristine Nielsen, Peter Weller, and Harris Yulin will all appear this season at Playwrights Horizons.

Cathey will star in Tanya Barfield’s Blue Door, September 28-October 29, to be directed by Leigh Silverman. The play is about a prominent African-American mathematician who begins to lose his grip on reality. Cathey’s New York credits include The Green Bird, Fool’s Fire, and White Chocolate. He will be joined by André Holland, a 2006 graduate of the NYU Graduate Acting Program who has appeared in the Shakespeare in the Park productions of As You Like It and Much Ado About Nothing.

Weller will play the famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Yulin will play fellow architect Louis Sullivan in Richard Nelson’s Frank’s Home, which begins its run on January 19. The show will be directed by Tony Award winner Robert Falls. Weller’s Broadway credits include Sticks and Bones, Summer Brave, and Full Circle, and he is best known for such films as Robocop and Shoot the Moon. Yulin’s Broadway credits include Hedda Gabler, The Price, and The Diary of Anne Frank and he was seen last season at Playwrights Horizons in Fran’s Bed.

Nielsen will join previously announced star Sigourney Weaver in A.R. Gurney’s Crazy Mary, which begins performances on May 4. Nielsen has previously appeared at Playwrights Horizons in Miss Witherspoon and Betty’s Summer Vacation, for which she won the Obie Award. She is currently playing the Nurse in the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s production of Romeo & Juliet.

The Playwrights Horizons season begins on September 1 with Bruce Norris’ The Pain and the Itch starring Jayne Houdyshell, Reg Rogers, and Christopher Evan Welch. Also on tap are David Cale and Jonathan Kreisberg’s musical Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky and the world premiere of Adam Rapp’s Essential Self Defense, which is a co-production with the Edge Theater.

For more information, visit www.playwrightshorizons.org.