Joanne Woodward will direct, as part of the Westport (Conn.) Country Playhouse’s “Classical Series”. One performance only, on Aug. 25;  ticket and other info here. Marisa has a history with Odets’ work, starring in productions of “Waiting for Lefty” and “Rocket to the Moon” in the ’90s.

from Playbill:

“Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and Academy Award-winning actress Marisa Tomei (currently back on Broadway in Top Girls) will take part in Angels in Progress, a new works series presented by Naked Angels.

Naked Angels artistic director Geoffrey Nauffts has announced the creation of a workshop that will present free staged readings of new American plays in various stages of development. Angels in Progress will be in residence for two weeks at the New School for Drama (151 Bank Street, NYC).”

The series runs from May 28-June 9. Below is Marisa’s contribution:

The Investigation of Solitude
By Nicole Burdette, directed by Pippin Parker.
Featuring Marisa Tomei.
“A woman revisits her past with an Irish American family in this classic drama investigating the human condition.” (May 29, 2 PM)

courtesy playbillonline.com:

Jennifer Ikeda (Seascape, As You Like It) and Ana Reeder (”No Country For Old Men,” Sight Unseen) will be featured in the upcoming Broadway production (beginning April 15 at the Biltmore Theatre), which also includes the previously announcedcast members Mary Catherine Garrison (as Patient Griselda/Jeanine/Kit/Shona), three-time Obie Award winner Elizabeth Marvel (as Marlene), Drama Desk Award winner Martha Plimpton (as Pope Joan/Angie) and Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei (as Isabella Bird/Joyce/Mrs. Kidd). Ikeda plays Lady Nijo/Win. Reeder plays Dull/Gret/Nell. One more cast member will be named.

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The Flea Theatre has extended the world-premiere run of Will Eno’s collection of short plays, Oh, the Humanity and Other Exclamations, to Feb. 2, 2008.

Flea artistic director Jim Simpson (The Guys) directs the debut of the work, which began previews Nov. 3 and opened Nov. 29. The show (which underwent a name change during previews — it was initially titled Oh the Humanity and Other Good Intentions) was originally scheduled to play a limited engagement through Dec. 22. Six weeks of performances have now been added.

Christina Kirk (Well, [sic], Nobody’s Lunch) will replace current star Marisa Tomei Jan. 15 through the end of the run.

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From Associated Press:

“I would tell you more if I knew more,” says Marisa Tomei, playing a spokeswoman for Country Air.

The struggle to know more — and the realization that “to be mortal is not to know” — threads through each of the five short plays that make up Will Eno’s darkly funny “Oh, the Humanity and Other Exclamations” currently on view at the Flea Theater.

Tomei, in the piece entitled “Enter the Spokeswoman, Gently,” is speaking at a podium to a group of family members and loved ones after a plane crash in which there were no survivors. Dressed conservatively in a brown striped suit, she gamely tries to convey sympathy in Eno’s absurdist confessional style.

The cause of the accident hasn’t been determined (another instance of uncertainty), but she does say that the company is fairly certain that “gravity was a factor.” Tomei’s character realizes that it probably sounds silly to tell the group that “families of the deceased get a roundtrip ticket.” She goes on to urge them to take comfort in the fact that the plane was even able to fly and stay up for as long as it did — and that they’re there at all. “Officially,” she says, “we would like you to feel giddy.”

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