Alec Baldwin will play the author himself in a staged reading of Horror: A Love Story, Jonathan Penner’s new autobiographical play, on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 18, in Midtown Manhattan.
It is a one-time, invitation-only reading with limited seating, BroadwayWorld reports, put together to show the play to potential backers and to theaters looking for new work for adventurous audiences. No venue has been named and there are no public tickets.
The play follows Penner and his wife, the film director Stacy Title, after she receives a life-changing diagnosis, and the way the couple lean on the horror movies they both love to find their way through it. The production calls it “part TED Talk, part family drama, part blood-soaked Grand Guignol.”
Hannah Heller reads Stacy Title and Jason O’Connell reads Grandpa Robert. Meghan Finn, the Obie-winning artistic director of The Tank, directs, and Tony winner Aimee Howard, a producer of Stereophonic and Dead Outlaw, produces.
Penner is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker who has written or co-written more than 30 screenplays and teleplays. He co-authored Taschen’s Horror Cinema and programs the Escape From Tribeca section of the Tribeca Festival. Baldwin made his Broadway debut in Loot in 1986 and was Tony-nominated for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1992.
