The Edward Albee revival starring Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett will not reopen once Broadway resumes performances, marking the second previewing production permanently shuttered in one day, after Martin McDonagh's 'Hangmen'
had played its final Broadway performance while still in previews, a similar fate has met the eagerly anticipated revival of Edward Albee's masterwork of interdependent marital warfare,Lead producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen confirmed late Friday night that the production, which was shut down March 12 as part of government-mandated safety measures to control the spread of the new coronavirus, would not resume performances when Broadway reopens its doors.
Marking the fourth Broadway revival of Albee's caustic 1962 drama about a long dark night of the soul involving a hard-drinking, hard-fighting New England academic and his wife and their guests at an after-party in their campus home, the production reunited two-time Tony winnerStarring opposite Metcalf's Martha was Rupert Everett as her husband George, Russell Tovey as cocky new guy on campus Nick and Patsy Ferran, an Olivier Award-winning new talent from the London stage making her...
The Broadway League, the 700-member trade association that oversees theater owners and operators, producers, presenters and general managers who present shows in nearly 200 markets across America, has set an April 13 date to restart operations on Broadway. But industry pundits are bracing for at least another month beyond that without revenues, in the best possible case scenario. Many fear it could stretch on for much of the year.
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