NEW YORK Parker Posey has withdrawn from a lead role in the upcoming Playwrights Horizons production of This after developing Lyme disease.

Artistic director Tim Sanford says the play by Melissa James Gibson will open Dec. 13 as scheduled at the off-Broadway theater. A replacement for Posey will be announced shortly.

This concerns the tribulations of a poet who happens to be a single mother, struggling with her love life and the well-meaning attention of good friends.

From wire reports