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Stephen Bogardus, Santino Fontana, et al. Set for The Acting Company’s Charley’s Aunt Reading

Santino Fontana
(© Tristan Fuge)
Santino Fontana
(© Tristan Fuge)

The Acting Company has announced casting for a benefit staged reading of Brandon Thomas’ Charley’s Aunt to be offered on Monday, December 12 at 7pm at the Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons. Ian Belknap will direct the performance.

The farce centers on what happens after Jack and Charley invite their girlfriends to Oxford for an afternoon to be properly chaperoned by Charley’s wealthy aunt. When the aunt’s arrival is delayed, Lord Fancourt Babberly is enlisted to masquerade in her stead.

The company will feature Casey Biggs, Stephen Bogardus, Kelley Curran, Santino Fontana, Chad Hoeppner, Kathleen McNeeny, and Liv Rooth.

For more information and tickets, click here.