Tony Winner Cynthia Nixon and the Stars of Wit Meet the Press

Tony Award winner Cynthia Nixon is readying to play a brilliant poetry professor facing cancer in Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit. The actress, who will shave her head for the role, plays Vivian Bearing, a scholar who devoted her life to academia and must now face the irony and injustice of becoming the subject of research. Nixon and the rest of cast met the press at the Manhattan Theatre Club Rehearsal Studios on December 13. Click on below for a close-up with the stars of the new production, directed by Lynne Meadow, and then see them in person when the show begins previews on January 5, 2012, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, where it will officially open on January 26.