Marylouise Burke, Stephen Kunken, Marin Hinkle & More Set for Rx at Primary Stages

Broadway vets Marylouise Burke, Stephen Kunken and Marin Hinkle are among the complete cast of Kate Fodor’s Rx, which will have its world premiere production at Primary Stages. Previews are set to begin at 59E59 Theaters on January 24, 2012, with opening night on February 7. The limited engagement is scheduled to continue through March 3, directed by Ethan McSweeny.

In addition to Burke (Is He Dead?, Fuddy Meers, Into the Woods), Kunken (a Tony nominee for Enron, High, Frost/Nixon) and Hinkle (Electra, TV’s Two and a Half Men), the cast will include Michael Bakkensen (Noises Off, Festen), Paul Niebanck (In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play, Shockheaded Peter) and Elizabeth Rich (The Cherry Orchard, A Tale of Two Cities).

In Rx, Meena Pierotti’s job is making her unhappy. Luckily, there’s a pill for that. Well, not yet. Meena has joined the clinical trial for a new drug targeting workplace depression. The trial gets messy, however, when she falls in love with her doctor, who himself is trying to enroll in a drug trial targeting heartbreak.

Rx will have set design by Lee Savage, costume design by Andrea Lauer and original music and sound design by Lindsay Jones.