Malcolm Gets Signs On for Off-Broadway Play Vigil

Tony Award nominee Malcolm Gets will star in the off-Broadway production of Morris Panych’s Vigil, according to The New York Times. Co-starring Helen Stenborg, the play will begin performances at the DR2 Theatre on September 20 and run through November 22.

Described as a comedy, Vigil centers on a self-involved bachelor (Gets) whose childhood dysfunctions are unraveled while he cares for his elderly aunt (Stenborg).

A Tony nominee for the 2002 musical Amour, Gets co-starred in last season’s short-lived Broadway musical The Story of My Life and was featured in the Broadway production of The Moliere Comedies. Off-Broadway, he won performance Obie Awards for playing Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along at the York Theatre and Proteus in Two Gentlemen of Verona for the New York Shakespeare Festival and was seen in Juno, Hello Again, A New Brain, Finian's Rainbow, Boys and Girls and Polish Joke. Gets also starred in the long-running sitcom Caroline in the City and appeared in the Sex and the City feature film.

Stenborg, the mother of director Doug Hughes, has had a long theatrical career, including Broadway productions of The Crucible, Waiting in the Wings, A Month in the Country, A Life, A Doll’s House, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine and Sheep on the Runway. Off-Broadway, she had a memorable small role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit.