Personal life. All Rights reserved. The rest of the cast is also terrific: Chantal Thuy as a young pregnant woman whom Wheeler becomes obsessed with; Troy West as Wheeler's sleezeball boss; and Caroline Neff as a co-worker who has to maneuver past both of these men as she tries to get her own life together. ... who works in the shop with Wheeler); and Chantal Thuy (Minnie, a 20-something American-Vietnamese rockabilly chick). Letts is quite adroit at painting a group portrait of the characters' screwed-up lives. Lighting design by Marcus Doshi. Linda Vista, opening tonight at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater in a Second Stage presentation of the Steppenwolf production, opens with a scene that includes Wheeler’s easy conversation with his only friend – their bond goes back to college, one of Letts’ many insightful hints indicating just how long Wheeler, as he prefers to be known, has been coasting on his past – neatly encapsulates the intellectual self-assurance that’s equaled to, and at odds with, an obstinate cluelessness at reading other people and his lousy way with them. No!" Select theatre credits include Lettie (Jeff Award for Best Actor), Uncle Vanya (Goodman Theatre); A Brief History of Helen of Troy (Jeff Award for Best Actress), The Knowledge, Harper Regan, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings (Steep Theatre); The Downpour (Route 66 Theatre); Port (Griffin Theatre); 4000 Miles (Northlight Theatre) and Moonshiner (Jackalope Theatre). Photo Coverage: LINDA VISTA Company Celebrates Opening Night on Broadway! BroadwayHD's October Lineup - SWEENEY TODD, A STAR IS BORN, & More! Tickets: 2st.com. easy conversation with his only friend – their bond goes back to college, one of Letts’ many insightful hints indicating just how long Wheeler, as he prefers to be known, has been coasting on his past – neatly encapsulates the intellectual self-assurance that’s equaled to, and at odds with, an obstinate cluelessness at reading other people and his lousy way with them. In short, he can be funny, attractive, and supportive one minute, and a real dick the next. Directed by Dexter Bullard. TV: "Law & Order: SVU," "The Good Wife," HBO's "If These Walls Could Talk," PBS' "Great Performances" and American Playhouse. Get to know the cast below as they begin Broadway performances! The oldest sister works at Epic Games. Past Theatre performances include We Are (Pan Asian Repertory Theater), The Seagull, Winter's Tale (Stella Adler/Harold Clurman Lab Theatre), The Lady Was a Gentleman (Broads' Word Ensemble). Jules, a life coach with a master's degree in "happiness," is coming off a painful breakup herself, but unlike Wheeler, she is determined to get back on her feet. “Linda Vista” is as packed with nasty zingers as an HBO sitcom. Chantal Thuy and Ian Barford in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Tracy Letts’ “Linda Vista,” playing at the Mark Taper Forum through … Minnie (Chantal Thuy) becomes fast friends with, and a bit of a project for, with both Wheeler and Jules. Dramaturg Edward Sobel. Steppenwolf Theatre Company: I Just Stopped By to See the Man, David Copperfield, Side Man, The Pillowman, The Playboy of the Western World, The Homecoming, and Killers. Thuy has two older sisters. Costume design by Laura Bauer. Scenic design by Todd Rosenthal. Regional credits include The Little Prince (Lookingglass Theatre Company); All the Rage, Design for Living (Goodman Theatre in Los Angeles); The Weir, God's Man in Texas, Take Me Out (Geffen Playhouse) and Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre). WME Music Agent Brent Smith Exits After Investigation, Michael Cera Q&A: The ‘Arrested Development’ Actor Discusses His New Kenneth Lonergan Project, Costar Mark Ruffalo And How Wally Brando Came To ‘Twin Peaks’, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge & Director Carrie Cracknell Reflect On Broadway’s 2019 ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ & Ponder What’s Next – The Deadline Q&A, Hugh Jackman ‘The Music Man’ Resets Broadway Opening Date As Shutdown Extended, John David Washington Joins Christian Bale & Margot Robbie In David O Russell Film For New Regency, Netflix VP Original Content Channing Dungey Exits Amid Warner Bros TV Speculation, Exactly What Time Is Late-Night? Scenic design by Todd Rosenthal. Well before intermission, we know Wheeler is going to sabotage his newfound happiness one way or another, but the degree of thoroughness and the extent of his nihilism still comes as a shock. Both Ian Barford and Cora Vander Broek have been with the show from the start (it also ran at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles), and their performances are pitch perfect. Other Steppenwolf credits include Visiting Edna, The March, The Libertine, As I Lay Dying, Berlin Circle, Love Song, Endgame, Betrayal, Up, Three Days of Rain and many others. Broadway and New York: August: Osage County, Buried Child, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Rivals and The Grapes of Wrath. Separated, near divorced from his wife and entirely estranged from his troubled teenage son, stuck in a dead-end, settled-for job in another era’s camera shop that’s a pale ghost of his long-dead ambitions to be a photographer, Wheeler is extended what could well be his final lifeline when Paul and wife Margaret (Sally Murphy) set him up on a date with Jules (Cora Vander Broek), an optimistic, platitude-spouting life coach that at first seems (to Wheeler and the audience) little more than the airheaded caricature that her career – she has a Master’s Degree in, of all things, “Happiness” – would suggest. Jim True-Frost is best known for playing Prez on the HBO series "The Wire." Select credits include the Chicago premiere of Rebecca Gillman's Soups, Stews, and Casseroles: 1976 (Goodman Theatre, Robert Falls); All My Sons (TimeLine Theatre, Kimberly Senior); The Mousetrap (Northlight Theatre, Jonathan Berry); In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play (Actors Theatre of Louisville and Milwaukee Repertory); Doubt and A Christmas Carol (Indiana Repertory). Dick Wheeler, the lead character – he’s hardly a “hero” – in Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista, a very funny new play about a very sad, not very likable man, is the type of determined, opinionated loser who has reached middle age with both a decided pride and worn-down boredom with his own contrariness, his mental library of trivia and hard-knock wisdom having left him with little more than a flabby gut, a failed marriage, a few sticks of cheap furniture and the confidence that he alone knows best which Ali MacGraw movie showed the actress at her sexiest (Convoy, in case you were wondering) and why Radiohead’s Thom Yorke is nothing but a “scrubby little poser”. ?” punctuated a moment the likes of which you only think you see coming. Letts, his director and his cast show no mercy on characters whose lurking selfishness and cruelty would, in any Neil Simon comedy, give way to repentance and forgiveness. She is a proud company member of Steep Theatre and holds her BA from Columbia College Chicago. Chantal currently portrays the DC Comics character Grace Choi on the hit television series "Black Lightning.". Film and television credits include Chicago Fire; Where We Started; Of Minor Prophets and Blur Circle. Turns out she…”. The set-up is there: A shlubby, middle-aged, down-on-his-luck who speaks in rapid-fire one-liners meant to hide the hurt in his soul meets a the goodbye girl he never knew he needed. Send us a tip using our annonymous form. But no sooner has their destined-for-disaster karaoke bar blind date hit a make-or-break point than Jules and Wheeler find common ground, an unexpected mutual attraction that prompts both a hilarious and awkward fight-night sexual encounter and, more seriously, an honest and revelatory relationship. Directed by Dexter Bullard. Ian also originated the roles of Ray in Tracy Letts's Mary Page Marlowe, as well Mr. Carp in Mr. Letts's The Minutes, and Wheeler in Linda Vista (Steppenwolf and Mark Taper Forum). Just out of his ex-wife's garage and into a place of his own, Wheeler starts on a path toward self-discovery - navigating blind dates, old friends, and new love. His Pulitzer and Tony-winning August: Osage County started there, and Linda Vista is also one of its productions. Full of opinions, yet short on self-examination, Wheeler must reconcile the man he has become with the man he wants to be.

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