Entertaining Mr. Sloane: Jan Maxwell to play Kath

Jan Maxwell has assumed the role of 'Kath' from Lisa Emery in the Roundabout Theatre Company�s 40th Anniversary Season Off-Broadway revival of Joe Orton�s Entertaining Mr. Sloane directed by Scott Ellis.

Lisa Emery has withdrawn from the production due to an extension of her current project Abigail�s Party.

Ms Maxwell joins previously announced cast members Alec Baldwin, Chris Carmack and Richard Easton.

Jan Maxwell was nominated for a 2005 Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang. Her Broadway credits include: Sixteen Wounded, The Dinner Party, The Sound of Music, A Doll�s House, Dancing At Lughnasa, City of Angels.

Entertaining Mr. Sloane opens at the Laura Pels Theatre on the 16 Mar 2006, following previews from the 17 Feb and running through to the 21 May 2006. Tickets go on sale on the 15 Jan.

Entertaining Mr. Sloane: Centers on a handsome stranger with a secret, his libidinous landlady, her gender-bending brother and geriatric father. Kath�s language may be prim but her intentions are blatant when she picks up Mr. Sloane and takes him in as a lodger. Attractive, mischievous and dangerous, Sloane eventually has Kath, her brother Ed and their father Kemp (ating out of his hand as they all compete for his favors. Together they play out a sexual tug of war, sparking a series of murderously funny events in this survival of the fittest power struggle where they will resort to anything to get what they want.

The design team for Entertaining Mr. Sloane includes Allen Moyer (sets), Michael Krass (costumes), Ken Posner (lights) and John Gromada (sound).

Entertaining Mr. Sloane made its World premiere at the New Arts Theatre in London on the 6 May 1964 before transferring to the Wyndham's Theatre in the West End in June 1964 and then to the Queen's Theatre in October 1964. One of the English theater�s biggest hits, it won the London Drama Critics' Best Play Award before premiering on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in October 1965. Entertaining Mr. Sloane was most recently revived Off-Broadway in 1996 at the Classic Stage Company.