Lopez Joins Cast of Cruz’s Beauty of the Father

Priscilla Lopez will appear with Oscar Isaac, Pedro Pascal, and Ritchie Coster in Nilo Cruz’s Beauty of the Father at Manhattan Theater Club. Directed by Michael Greif, the show is set to begin performances on December 15 and to open officially on January 10. One additional role has yet to be cast.

In the play, a young woman visits her estranged father in Spain, but a charming young Moroccan suitor may stand in the way of their reconciliation. Cruz is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics. His Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams will begin performances at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theater on November 4; and his new play A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, adapted from a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, will be seen at L.A.’s Kirk Douglas Theater beginning November 13.

Lopez won a Tony Award for her work in A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine and received a Tony nomination for her role of Diana Morales in A Chorus Line; she also starred in the Broadway production of Anna in the Tropics. Isaac was seen this past summer in the Public Theater production of Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Delacorte in Central Park. Pascal received the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for his work in Orphans. Coster appeared on Broadway in Wait Until Dark.

Greif received a Tony nomination for his direction of Rent. He was last represented on Broadway by Never Gonna Dance and is currently directing the Roundabout Theatre’s Off-Broadway production of Mr. Marmalade.