Steppenwolf Theatre Company has announced complete casting for two more of this season's productions, Bruce Norris's Domesticated and Annie Baker's The Flick.
Domesticated (December 3–February 7 in the Downstairs Theatre), which premiered at New York's Lincoln Center Theater in 2013, centers on a politician embroiled in a sex scandal and the good wife standing behind him as he makes his public apology. The couple will be played by Steppenwolf ensemble member Tom Irwin and Mary Beth Fisher, appearing at Steppenwolf for the first time since 2008's Dead Man's Cell Phone. They'll be joined by Emily Chang, Esteban Andres Cruz, Meighan Gerachis, Rae Gray, Beth Lacke, Mildred Marie Langford, Melanie Neilan, Meg Thalken and Karen Janes Woditsch; Norris directs.
The Flick, Baker's Pulitzer Prize–winning play about the employees of a run-down movie house, will feature Caroline Neff, a Time Out Chicago Theater Award readers' choice winner for her last role at Steppenwolf in Airline Highway, as Rose, along with Danny McCarthy as Sam, Travis Turner as Avery and Will Allan as Skylar. Dexter Bullard directs in the Upstairs Theater, February 4–May 8.
Partial casting for the final two plays of the season was also announced, with Alan Wilder and Sandra Marquez confirmed for the premiere of Tracy Letts's Mary Page Marlowe, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. English actor Eamonn Walker, currently a regular on Chicago Fire, will join the previously announced James Vincent Meredith and Tim Hopper in Stephen Adly Guirgis's Between Riverside and Crazy. Steppenwolf's season opener, Frank Galati's new adaptation of John Steinbeck's East of Eden, begins previews a week from tonight.