Foreground: Stephanie Monday. Background, left to right: marssie Mencotti (the lower case m is correct in her first name), Elaine Carlson, Shariba Rivers, Barbara Roeder Harris, Susie Griffith, Rainee Denham Photo

From: Photo Flash: First Look at City Lit's Production of J.B.

J.B., the Pulitzer Prize and Best Play Tony Award -winner by the American playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, takes place in a corner of an enormous circus tent, where two vendors prepare to perform a play based on the Book of Job. One vendor, Nickles (meant to signify the devil, who is sometimes called Old Nick ), will play the Devil. The other vendor, Zuss ( Zeus ), will play God. The two choose J.B., a wealthy banker, to play their Job. City Lit's production is directed by Brian Pastor and will be performed by an ensemble of nine women who take all twenty-three roles of men, women, and children in the play's cast of characters.