Christopher Denham Joins Adam Rapp's Kindness at Playwrights Horizons

Christopher Denham will join previously announced stars Annette O'Toole, Ray Anthony Thomas and Katherine Waterston in the world premiere of Adam Rapp's Kindness at Playwrights Horizons. The play will begin previews on September 25 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, with opening night on October 13. Rapp will direct the limited engagement, which is set to end on November 2.

In Kindness, an ailing mother O'Toole and her teenaged son Denham flee Illinois and a crumbling marriage for the relative calm and safety of a midtown Manhattan hotel. Mom holds tickets to a popular musical about love among bohemians. Her son isn't interested. So she takes the kindly cabdriver Thomas instead, while the boy entertains an enigmatic, potentially dangerous young woman Waterston from down the hall. A play about the possibility for sympathy in a harsh world, Kindness focuses on the meaning of mercy in the face of devastating circumstances.

Denham's Broadway credits include The Lieutenant of Inishmore and Master Harold…and the boys. Kindness reunites the actor with playwright Rapp after he appeared in the scribe's Red Light Winter at off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre. Additional off-Broadway credits include Wintertime.

Kindness will feature scenic design by Lauren Helpern Voices in the Dark, costumes by Daphne Javitch Little Flower of East Orange, lighting design by Mary Louise Geiger The Constant Wife and sound design by Eric Shim Almost an Evening. The production marks the second show in Playwrights Horizons' 2008-2009 season, and will be followed by the previously announced Prayer for My Enemy, The Savannah Disputation, Inked Baby and Our House.