Off Broadway offerings cast up.(LEGIT)(Brief article)

New casting for upcoming Off Broadway productions include Lois Smith and Peter Bartlett in "The Illusion" and Mafia Dizzia in the newly retitled Manhattan Theater Club offering "Cradle and All."

Signature Theater Company's "Illusion," helmed by Michael Mayer ("Spring Awakening"), is the final show in the troupe's season of Tony Kushner works that has included "Angels in America" and the previewing co-production of "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide To Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures." Bartlett and Smith are joined in the cast by Sean Dugan ("Next Fall"), David Margulies and Merritt Weaver ("Nurse Jackie"), among others.

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