Manhattan Theatre Club is pleased to announce that Mary Catherine Garrison, Elizabeth Marvel, Martha Plimpton and Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei will star in the upcoming Broadway premiere of Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls at the Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street). 

The play will be directed by James Macdonald (A Number). Additional casting for the production will be announced at a later date.

Top Girls will begin previews at MTC’s Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street) on Tuesday, April 15 and will open on Wednesday, May 7, 2008.

“Top Girls marks the Broadway debut of a Caryl Churchill masterpiece. At the Top Girls Employment Agency in London in the early 1980s, Marlene has just been appointed head of the firm.  But as this ambitious career woman celebrates her achievements, can we applaud her values?” ask press notes.

“This bold and ingenious work from the singularly talented author of Far Away and Cloud Nine offers one of the theatre’s most honest portraits of what it means to be a woman in the modern world.”

Tomei is currently starring in the 5-mini-play series Oh, The Humanity off-Broadway at The Flea.  Plimpton is also currently treading the boards, starring in the Lincoln Center production of Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.

Single ticket and listings information for Top Girls will be announced in the coming weeks.

From nydailynews.com

Marisa Tomei slides into a back booth of Joe Jr., a Greenwich Village coffee shop near her apartment. Though it’s a warm October day, she’s bundled up in a fuzzy white cardigan with a thin lilac scarf knotted at her throat.

“I’m starting rehearsal tomorrow and I’m so nervous,” she says, ordering a hot cup of herbal tea. “It’s been two years since I’ve been onstage. So this show will either kill me or revive me.”

The play, Will Eno’s “Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions” at the Flea Theatre (located at 41 White St.), doesn’t start previews until next month. But Tomei, freshly returned from a holiday in Italy (she has dual citizenship, thanks to a grandfather who is a native), is talking about her new movie - Sidney Lumet’s “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” a gritty tale of crime, family and betrayal that opens Friday after playing at the New York Film Festival.

Marisa Tomei slides into a back booth of Joe Jr., a Greenwich Village coffee shop near her apartment. Though it’s a warm October day, she’s bundled up in a fuzzy white cardigan with a thin lilac scarf knotted at her throat.

“I’m starting rehearsal tomorrow and I’m so nervous,” she says, ordering a hot cup of herbal tea. “It’s been two years since I’ve been onstage. So this show will either kill me or revive me.”

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From upi.com

Marisa Tomei has begun rehearsals for the off-Broadway production of “Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions,” the Oscar-winning actress said in New York.

Tomei, who will soon be seen in Sidney Lumet’s film “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” told UPI: “I’m rehearsing a play. … It’s at the Flea Theater and it’s called ‘Oh the Humanity.’ It’s a Will Eno play. He did ‘Thom Pain’ a couple years back and Jim Simpson is directing. I’m very excited.”

The Brooklyn-born actress has previously starred on Broadway in “Salome” and “Wait Until Dark.”

“If you’re lucky enough to have grown up in New York, or gotten yourself to New York or London, some place where there is a lot of (theater acting) going on, if you get it in your blood early on, it’s something that’s very hard to shake,” she said. “It really revives you on your soul level. I don’t think it’s something you can easily give up. … I feel lucky even to get to do this play we were just talking about. It’s a really good play.”

The world premiere production will begin previews Nov. 3 and run through Dec. 22, Playbill.com said.