Robert Forster to Play Reagan in a New Play

The actor Robert Forster, a Rochester native (and Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown”), will portray Ronald Reagan at Rochester’s Geva Theater Center in June, the theater announced.

The world premiere of “The Lifeguard: Ronald Reagan and His Story,” by David Rambo, will have a limited run from June 13 to June 30.

The coming 2013-2014 season on the Wilson Mainstage will feature a new play by John Cariani, the author of “Almost, Maine,” and Geva’s annual production of “A Christmas Carol.”

At theater’s Fielding Nextstage, Geva will present its entry in the Rochester Fringe Festival, and a range of contemporary plays in what will be known as the Studio Series.

The current spring season on the Nextstage includes “Bob” by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, “No Child” by Nilaja Sun and “Venus in Fur” by David Ives, which had a successful run on Broadway

Two productions remain on the Mainstage in the theater center’s 40th anniversary season: “The Whipping Man,” Matthew Lopez’s Civil War drama, and Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”