Casting has been set for the U.S. premiere of “2:22 – A Ghost Story” playing at Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre this fall. In this four-person play, Jenny (Constance Wu) believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam (Finn Wittrock) isn’t having any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, their old friend Lauren (Anna Camp) and her new partner Ben (Adam Rothenberg). Belief and skepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening, and that something is getting closer, so they are going to stay up until 2:22 a.m… and then they will know. Transporting audiences into one adrenaline-fueled night where secrets will emerge and ghosts may appear, “2:22 – A Ghost Story” asks, what do you believe? And do you dare to discover the truth? Can the dead really walk again?
All four actors will be making Ahmanson Theatre stage debuts – Adam Rothenberg made his Center Theatre Group debut with “Burn This” at the Mark Taper Forum in 2011 – while Constance Wu, Anna Camp, and Finn Wittrock will be making their Center Theatre Group debuts. Written by the creator of the hit BBC podcast “The Battersea Poltergeist” Danny Robins and directed by Matthew Dunster, “2:22 – A Ghost Story” is an intriguing, funny, and scary supernatural thriller, with previews beginning October 29, opening November 4, and runs through December 4, 2022. “2:22 – A Ghost Story” is produced by special arrangement with Tristan Baker and Charlie Parsons for Runaway Entertainment, Isobel David, and Kater Gordon.
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Matthew Dunster is an Olivier-nominated director, a playwright and actor. Matthew directed Martin McDonagh’s “A Very Very Very Dark Matter” (The Bridge), and “Hangmen” (Royal Court, The Wyndhams, West End, The Atlantic and Broadway). Directing credits include “True West” (The Vaudeville, West End); “Oedipus” (Bunkamura Theatre, Tokyo); “Liberian Girl” (Royal Court); “The Seagull,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Open Air Theatre); “Love’s Sacrifice” (RSC); “Imogen,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” “Doctor Faustus” (Shakespeare’s Globe); “Love the Sinner” (National Theatre); “Mametz” (National Theatre Wales); “Before the Party” (Almeida Theatre); “A Sacred Flame” (English Touring); “You Can See the Hills,” “1984,”” Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” “Macbeth” (Royal Exchange, Manchester); “Mogadishu” (Royal Exchange Manchester and Lyric Hammersmith).