Bus Stop

Classic Stage Company, Transport Group and the National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO) pool their resources for a revival of William Inge's 1955 dramedy about a rural Kansas diner where bus riders are forced to spend the wee hours during a snowstorm. Inge's Midwestern-Tennessee-Williams energies come to somewhat happier expression here than in his other most famous plays: Picnic, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and Come Back, Little Sheba. Jack Cummings III directs a cast composed entirely of Asian-American actors, including Midori Francis as the sexpot chanteuse once played by Kim Stanley (and Marilyn Monroe in the film version) and Cindy Cheung in the Elaine Stritch role of the diner's fiesty proprietor. Michael Hsu Rosen, Rajesh Bose, David Shih, Delphi Borich, David Lee Huynh and Moses Villarama round out the cast.