Our Town: Helen Hunt joins cast on 6 Jul 2010

Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets ) will assume the role of 'The Stage Manager' in David Cromer's production of Thornton Wilder's Our Town for four weeks only from 6 Jul - 4 Aug 2010. Hunt assumes the role from Michael McKean who plays his final performance on 4 Jul 2010.

Helen Hunt performed the role of 'Emily' in the Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center Theatre production of Our Town, in which Spalding Gray was the 'Stage Manager.' (Cromer has dedicated his production of Our Town to the memory Spalding Gray). Ms. Hunt's last Broadway appearances were in Yazmena Reza's 'Life (x) 3,' and as 'Viola' in Lincoln Center Theater's production of 'Twelfth Night.'

Our Town opened at the Barrow Street Theatre on 26 Feb 2009, following previews from 17 Feb, where it is now booking through to 12 Sep 2010.

The show opened to mostly positive reviews: "modest but highly rewarding" (NY Times); 'riveting new production' (NY Daily News); 'wonderful' (NY Post); "Astonishingly reinvented" (AP).

Our Town went on to win the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Direction and Obie Award for Outstanding Director. This current staging of Our Town entered its second year on 26 Feb 2010 and is the longest-running production of the play in its 72-year history.

The cast of Our Town currently features Elizabeth Audley (Mrs. Soames), Robert Beitzel (Howie Newsome), Kati Brazda (Mrs. Webb), Will Brill (Joe Crowell, Jr,) Nathan Dame (Sam Craig), Roger E. DeWitt (Joe Stoddard), Donna Jay Fulks (Mrs. Gibbs), Emma Galvin (Rebecca Gibbs), Jennifer Grace (Emily Webb), Wilbur Edwin Henry (Professor Willard), Mark Hattan (Constable Warren), David Manis (Mr. Webb), Jonathan Mastro (Simon Stimson), James McMenamin (George Gibbs), Seamus Mulcahy (Wally Webb), Jeff Still (Doc Gibbs), Jason Yachanin (Si Crowell), with Dana Jacks, Lynn Laurence, Kathleen Peirce, Keith Perry and Mark Shock.

The creative team for Our Town features Michele Spadaro (set design and props), Alison Siple (costume design) and Heather Gilbert (lighting design).