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Departing CSI star Petersen returns to Chicago theatre scene

04.12.2008 16:01 Arts - Source: cbc.ca

Longtime CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star and producer William Petersen is trading the forensics lab for the Chicago stage.

The city's celebrated Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where Tracy Letts's Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play August: Osage County originated, has announced Petersen is the newest addition to its 42-member acting ensemble.

The 55-year-old actor is starring in the company's production of Conor McPherson's Dublin Carol. He is also scheduled to perform in a production of David Harrower's Blackbird at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theatre next summer.

Petersen is no stranger to the stage, having worked in the Chicago theatre community in the 1980s and co-founded the Remains Theatre there. He joins two of his Remains colleagues, Gary Cole and Amy Morton, in the Steppenwolf ensemble, which also counts John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Joan Allen and Martha Plimpton as members.

During a hiatus from CSI in 2006, Petersen also starred in a production of Dublin Carol in Rhode Island.

CSI's producers revealed this summer that Petersen was ending his run on the hit show, the original, Las Vegas version of a popular police and forensics format that eventually spawned editions in Miami and New York.

His final episode as night-shift supervisor Gil Grissom has already been filmed and is slated for broadcast in January. Petersen will continue to be executive producer of the show, and has agreed to make the occasional guest appearance.

Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne will join the cast of the top-rated TV forensics drama in his place.

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