Jason Butler Harner to Replace David Cromer in Our Town

Jason Butler Harner will replace David Cromer in the central role of Stage Manager in Cromer’s staging of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. The Obie-winning actor will begin performances in the revival on August 25. Cromer is departing the company to begin rehearsals for the Broadway productions of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound.

Harner’s stage credits include The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center, Hedda Gabler at New York Theatre Workshop, The Gingerbread House at the stageFarm, the American premiere of The Invention of Love at ACT, The Cherry Orchard at the Mark Taper Forum, The Glass Menagerie at the Kennedy Center and Crimes of the Heart at Second Stage Theatre. He was recently seen in the Clint Eastwood film Changeling, as well as The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 and in the HBO mini-series John Adams.

Also joining the cast of Our Town are Susan Bennett as Mrs. Soames, Nathan Dame as Sam Craig and Armand Schultz as Doc Gibbs. Jeremy Beiler will assume the role of Simon Stimson.

The complete cast includes Rob Beitzel as Howie Newsome, Kati Brazda as Mrs. Webb, George Demas as Constable Warren, Jennifer Grace as Emily, Wilbur Edwin Henry as Professor Willard, Adam Hinkle as Joe Crowell, Ronete Levenson as Rebecca Gibbs, James McMenamin as George, Ken Marks as Editor Webb, Seamus Mulcahy as Wally Webb, Lori Myers as Mrs. Gibbs, Jay Russell as Joe Stoddard, Schultz as Doc Gibbs, and Jason Yachanin as Si Crowell.

As previously reported, the acclaimed production has been extended through January 31, 2010.