Jeff Goldblum Joins Cast of ‘Domesticated’

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Jeff Goldblum will join Laurie Metcalf this fall in the Lincoln Center Theater production of “Domesticated,” a new work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Bruce Norris (“Clybourne Park”), the company announced on Sunday. Commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, “Domesticated” is about a politician and his wife whose marriage is put in jeopardy by a scandal. The play is to begin preview performances Off Broadway at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on Oct. 10, with opening night set for Nov. 4. The director will be Anna D. Shapiro (“August: Osage County”), who has directed several of Mr. Norris’s plays, including “The Unmentionables” and “The Pain and the Itch.”

The theater also announced several actors for the show’s large cast, including Vanessa Aspillaga, Mia Barron, Robin De Jesus, Lizbeth Mackay, Emily Meade, Mary Beth Peil, Karen Pittman and Misha Seo. Additional casting is to be announced later.

“Domesticated” will open Lincoln Center Theater’s 2013-14 season, which also includes a new Broadway production of “Macbeth” starring Ethan Hawke; James Lapine’s adaptation of Moss Hart’s autobiography, “Act One”; and “The City of Conversation,” a new play by Anthony Giardina.