Ron Rifkin, John Glover, and Neil Patrick Harris to headline Jon Robin Baitz's The Paris Letter

This is charming news: out actors John Glover (Smallville) and Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Ron Rifkin, who is currently playing a gay man on Brothers & Sisters, will reprise their roles in The Paris Letter, by out playwright Jon Robin Baitz (who also created B&S) at the Los Angeles Theater Works. The trio have all performed in the play previously (Glover in the show's Off-Broadway run and Rifkin and Harris in 2004).

The play tells the story of a repressed, high-powered Wall Street type whose life is thrown into turmoil after an affair with a younger, male colleague. And given that since these gents last performed in the play one has been led to come out publicly as a gay man and another is playing one of the few gay characters on television, one can't help but wonder how it might have a new resonance. Josh Radnor (Harris's HIMYM co-star) and Patricia Wettig (B&S, thirtysomething) co-star.

It's also great to see Rifkin and Wetting working in another Baitz-penned work, particularly given his high-profile exit from the show, which is currently in production limbo due to the strike.