Normal Heart: Patrick Breen and Luke MacFarlane

Patrick Breen (Next Fall) and Luke MacFarlane ("Brothers and Sisters") have joined the cast of the Broadway premiere of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, directed by John Gray, playing a limited 12-week engagement at the John Golden Theatre from 19 Apr - 10 Jul 2011, opening on 27 Apr 2011.

Breen will play 'Mickey Marcus' and MacFarlane will play the roles of 'Craig Donner' and 'Grady.'

They join the previously announcedEllen Barkin as 'Dr. Emma Brookner,' John Benjamin Hickey as 'Felix Turner,' Joe Mantello as 'Ned Weeks,' Lee Pace as 'Bruce Niles' and Jim Parsons as 'Tommy Boatwright.'

Additional casting, along with the complete creative team, will be announced shortly.

The Normal Heart Focuses on the early years of the AIDS plague in New York and the criminal silence of America's political and media powers in addressing the issue. A tight-knit group of friends refuses to let doctors, politicians and the press bury the truth of an unspoken epidemic behind a wall of silence.

Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart is being produced on Broadway by Daryl Roth and Paul Boskind.

A percentage of the production's weekly profits will be donated to a group of dedicated nonprofit organizations, including The Actors Fund and Friends In Deed, among others. In addition, a special partnership is being created with amfAR (Foundation for Aids Research).