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Sarah Paulson goes off-Broadway

by Terri

paulson1.jpgAaron Sorkin’s not the only one doing the New York theater thing this season. According to an item on Playbill’s site, Sarah Paulson, Studio 60’s Harriet, will be appearing off-Broadway in Crimes of the Heart, a revival of the play by Beth Henley to be directed this time around by Kathleen Turner. Paulson earlier appeared in the play under Turner’s direction at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

The play centers on the Magrath sisters — never-married Lenny, much-married Meg, and Babe, who just shot her husband. Paulson will play Meg, following in the footsteps of Mary Beth Hurt, who played the character in the play’s original Broadway run in the early ’80s, and Jessica Lange, who played her in the 1986 movie.

In a bit of trivia, Paulson starred opposite Lange a few years ago in a Broadway production of The Glass Menagerie, with Lange as the mother, Amanda, and Paulson as her daughter, Laura.

Reviewing the Williamstown production of Crimes of the Heart, Chris Newbound of Variety wrote that Paulson was “perhaps lacking the necessary edge” to play Meg, but Entertainment Weekly reviewer Melissa Rose Bernardo wrote, “Sarah Paulson (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) finds the protectiveness beneath Meg’s playfulness — she may be a drinker, a liar, and a heartbreaker, but she’ll throw everything over for her siblings.”

Crimes of the Heart begins previews on January 18, 2008, at the Laura Pels Theatre, part of the Roundabout Theatre Company. It opens on February 7 and runs through April 13. According to BroadwayWorld.com, there will be evening performances on Tuesday through Saturday and matinee performances on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, with ticket prices ranging from $63.75 to $73.75. Tickets will be available online on the Roundabout site, though they don’t seem to be there yet.

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