{"id":235318,"date":"2026-05-18T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235318\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:32:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:32:20","slug":"molly-ringwald-bob-odenkirk-michael-mckean-more-cast-in-are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-off-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235318\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Ringwald, Bob Odenkirk, Michael McKean, more cast in \u2018Are You Now or Have You Ever Been\u2019 off Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Initial casting has been set for the revival of Eric Bentley’s docudrama, with various guest stars rotating in and out of the production throughout its run.<\/p>\n

Initial casting has been set for Are You Now or Have You Ever Been<\/a> off Broadway at New York City Center<\/a>, running from June 2 to September 11 only.<\/p>\n

Eric Bentley’s docudrama depicts various showbiz figures testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s, dramatizing actual verbatim transcripts from the hearings. Six actors will perform for the entirety of Are You Now’s run: Three-time Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas<\/a> (Smash, The Prom), Jason Babinsky (Network, Billy Elliot), Tony nominee Steven Boyer<\/a>
\n(Hand to God), Emmy and Grammy winner Adam Kantor (The Band\u2019s Visit), Drama Desk Award winner Frederick Weller (In Plain Sight), and Emmy and Oscar nominee Michael McKean<\/a> (Laverne & Shirley, This is Spinal Tap).<\/p>\n

Guest starring in the production from June 2-21 are David Krumholtz, Obie winner Billy Eugene Jones, Andrew McCarthy, Sally Murphy, and Jay O. Sanders.<\/p>\n

Guest starring at future dates to be announced are Santino Fontana<\/a>, T. R. Knight<\/a>, Harry Lennix<\/a>, Bob Odenkirk<\/a>, Steven Pasquale<\/a>, Molly Ringwald<\/a>, and Thomas Sadoski. Additional guest stars have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n

As previously announced<\/a>, the creative team includes director Anna D. Shapiro, set designer Andrew Boyce, costume designer Johanna Pan, lighting designer Donald Holder, sound designer Milbo Music, and projection designer Brittany Bland.<\/p>\n

Additionally, there will be a series of post-show talkbacks following select performances throughout the run. Scheduled guests include playwright J. T. Rogers (6\/2), director Trip Cullman (6\/4 evening), actress Judy Kuhn and writer John Weidman (6\/11 evening), director Christopher Ashley (6\/16), actor Arian Moayed (6\/17 matinee), rabbi Joanna Samuels (6\/17 evening), writer and actress Heidi Schreck (6\/18), Tectonic Theater Project founder Mois\u00e9s Kaufman (6\/23), playwright David Henry Hwang (6\/25), playwright Matthew Libby (6\/30), director Bill Rauch (7\/14), Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis (7\/23), director Robert O’Hara (8\/29 matinee), director Pam MacKinnon (9\/2 evening), and Michael Roth (9\/9 evening).<\/p>\n

Get Are You Now or Have You Ever Been tickets<\/a> now.<\/p>\n

Photo credit: Molly Ringwald, Bob Odenkirk, and Michael McKean. (Photos courtesy of production; Ringwald photo by Shervin Lainez; Odenkirk photo by Erin Odenkirk)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initial casting has been set for the revival of Eric Bentley’s docudrama, with various guest stars rotating in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-235318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}