Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber will star in a revival of “Doubt: A Parable” on Broadway this season.
The play, by John Patrick Shanley, is a couple of nun who suspects a priest has sexually abused a pupil at a Catholic college. In 2005, the 12 months it first opened on Broadway, it gained each the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for greatest play; it was later tailored right into a film and an opera.
The new manufacturing is to be produced by the Roundabout Theater Company, and to be directed by Scott Ellis, who has been serving because the nonprofit’s interim creative director because the loss of life of creative director Todd Haimes in April. (All Broadway theaters are planning to dim the lights of their marquees for one minute at 6:45 p.m. tonight in Haimes’s reminiscence.)
Daly, who will play the nun who serves as the college principal, and Schreiber, who will play the parish priest, are each Tony winners. Daly, recognized to tv viewers for “Cagney & Lacey,” amongst different exhibits, gained a Tony Award in 1990 for starring in a revival of “Gypsy.” Schreiber, the star of Showtime’s “Ray Donovan,” gained a Tony Award in 2005 for a revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
The manufacturing is to start performances subsequent February on the American Airlines Theater.
“Doubt” shall be one in every of three performs staged by Roundabout on Broadway this season. The others are “I Need That,” a brand new play written by Theresa Rebeck and starring Danny DeVito alongside his daughter, Lucy, and “Home,” a revival, directed by Kenny Leon, of a 1979 play by Samm-Art Williams.
“Doubt” won’t be the one play by Shanley on the New York stage this season. The Manhattan Theater Club, the nonprofit that staged the unique manufacturing of “Doubt,” plans to current a brand new Shanley play, “Brooklyn Laundry,” Off Broadway subsequent winter.
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