The play, which premiered at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre and won the Joseph Jefferson Award, is about a film critic's troubled return to his hometown in Ohio. Sweet's other plays include The Value of Names, Bluff, and The Action Against Sol Schulman.

Bullock's stage credits include Ragtime, City of Angels, and Take Me Along. Geer's credits include the Broadway productions of Side Man and Twelve Angry Men. Kind's Broadway credits include The Producers, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Sly Fox. Pawk won the Tony Award for Hollywood Arms and was most recently seen in Prayer for My Enemy.