A familiar American TV face as detective Sam Tyler in the US version of Life on Mars, Irishman Jason O’Mara, will return to the London stage to star in Simon Curtis’ revival of Lanford Wilson’s 1970 play Serenading Louie, which runs at the Donmar Warehouse from February 16th to March 27th 2010.
In Wilson’s portrait of two suburban American couples, friends since college, Carl and Alex, are struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter their thirties. Disillusioned by work and fighting to keep their marriages alive, they’re desperately trying to make sense of it all.
O’Mara plays Carl opposite American Jason Butler Harner, making his UK stage debut as Alex. O’Mara’s previous stage credits include Popcorn, The Jew of Malta and School for Scandal. On US television, he’s also been seen in Grey’s Anatomy, The Agency, In Justice, Men in Trees, Criminal Minds, and Band of Brothers. Butler Harner’s New York stage credits include The Coast of Utopia, The Invention of Love, Hedda Gabbler, The Paris Letter and The Glass Menagerie.
The men are joined by Britons Charlotte Emmerson (On the Rocks, Therese Raquin, The Coast of Utopia, Baby Doll) and Geraldine Somerville (Power, Remember This, I Am Yours, A Doll’s House).
