Larry Kramer and More Join Michael Emerson and Sally Field in Gross Indecency Reading

Complete casting has been announced for the Tectonic Theater Project's one-night-only benefit reading of Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. The event, set to take place on October 5 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College, benefits the Tectonic Theater Project and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC).

Newly announced for the reading are original cast members Andy Paris, Ben Livingston, Greg Steinbruner, and Don Wildman, as well as legendary dramatist/activist Larry Kramer (The Normal Heart).

They join a company headed by two-time Emmy Award winner Michael Emerson (Lost), who reprises his performance as Oscar Wilde, which he originated at the Minetta Lane Theatre in 1997. Also featured are two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field, Michael C. Hall (Lazarus), Jonathan Groff (Hamilton), Tony Award and four-time Emmy Award winner David Hyde Pierce (Curtains, Frasier), Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner (Angels in America), Tony and Emmy Award winner Judith Light (Other Desert Cities), Darren Criss (Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Glee), Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), David Burtka (It Shoulda Been You), Andy Mientus (Les Misérables, Smash), Jose Llana (The King and I), Will Carlyon (Cabaret), and Jake Shears (Bent).

This New York reading of Gross Indecency comes on the heels of a canceled production of the play scheduled to run in Moscow. Earlier this year, Kaufman and Tectonic Theater Project were working with the Moscow New Drama Theatre and the U.S. State Department to produce the revival, but the Kremlin blocked the production because of its LGBTQ content. The October benefit reading is intended to bring attention to the suppression of the rights of the LGBTQ community in Russia.

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde focuses on Oscar Wilde and the trials for his "crime" of homosexuality. The upcoming reading is directed by Kaufman and sponsored by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Hilda Mullen Foundation.

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