Peter and the Starcatcher: Steve Rosen

Steve Rosen will play the role of 'Smee' from 11 Nov 2013 in Rick Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher and continue with th show through to its final performance at New World Stages / Stage 1 on 12 Jan 2014. Rosen replaces original cast Kevin Del Aguila who played his final performance on 10 Nov 2013.

This will be Rosen's third outing in Peter and the Starcatcher, he previously stepped in to play the role of 'Black Stache' for certain performances during the show's Off-Broadway run at NYTW, and earlier this year temporarily replaced Aguila as 'Smee.'

Rosen co-wrote and co-starred in the off-Broadway musical 'The Other Josh Cohen' and has appeared on Broadway in 'Guys and Dolls,' 'The Farnsworth Invention' and 'Spamalot.'

The cast for Peter and the Starcatcher also includes Rick Holmes (Black Stache), Nicole Lowrance (Molly), Jordan Geiger (Boy), Edward Baker-Duly (Lord Aster), Matt D'Amico (Slank), Jimmy Keiffer (Alf), Josh Grisetti (Fighting Prawn), Alex Hernandez (Captain Scott), Nate Miller (Ted), Andrew Mueller (Prentiss), Jon Patrick Walker (Mrs. Bumbrake), Joanna Howard, Evan Johnson, Jose Restrepo and Graham Stevens.

Peter and the Starcatcher, written by Tony Award nominee Rick Elice, and directed by Tony Award-winner Roger Rees and Tony Award-nominee Alex Timbers, is performed by a company of twelve actors who play some 50 characters - all on a journey to answer the century-old question: How did Peter become The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up?

The show's design team includes Wayne Barker (Music), Steven Hoggett (Movement), Marco Paguia (Music Supervision), Donyale Werle (Scenic Design), Paloma Young (Costume Design), Jeff Croiter (Lighting Design) and Darron L West (Sound Design).

Peter and the Starcatcher is produced by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes and Disney Theatrical Productions.

Originally developed by Disney Theatrical Productions in 2003, Peter and the Starcatcher received its first lab at Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2007, under the direction of Rees and Timbers. A full length version of the play was then written by Elice, further developed by Disney Theatricals in a Page to Stage production at La Jolla Playhouse in the winter of 2009.

Following revisions, the play received its first fully staged production in March 2011 at Off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop where it played from 9 Mar 2011 - 24 Apr 2011. It then transferred to Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it played from 28 Mar 2012 - 20 Jan 2013, where it went on to win five 2012 Tony Awards - the most of any play of the 2011-2012 season. The play then returned to Off-Broadway, opening at its present home, New World Stages / Stage 1, on 18 Mar 2013.

The Broadway premiere opened to mostly excellent reviews: Inventive, touching and mostly hilarious (newyorktheatreguide); Ecstatic production (NY Times); Beaming with dizzy humor and delightful stage magic (NY Daily News); Clever and joyous entertainment (Back Stage); Flies high (NY1).