Falls is artistic director of Chicago's Goodman Theatre. The Geffen Playhouse production marks the world premiere of this play, but Harris, Headly, Madigan and Pullman were all involved with Henley in early readings of the project. The world premiere of

In the play, Bill Perch, a dentist with ambiguous morality, goes to the Jacksonian Motel to bury his secrets. Estranged from his wife, "Perch makes his new home in the motel's unsettling world where the subversive becomes commonplace and the passage of t

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The Geffen Playhouse's world premiere production of Beth Henley's The Jacksonian has added an extra week to its run, and will now perform February 7-March 25. Tony Award winner Robert Falls directs the production, which will open officially on February 1