Roundabout Theater Firm, the most important nonprofit on Broadway, will current three very completely different classics subsequent season: a Greek tragedy, a drawing-room comedy and a monster musical.
The English author and director Robert Icke’s “Oedipus,” a brand new model of the seminal Sophocles drama a couple of king who inadvertently kills his father and marries his mom, will come to Broadway within the fall. The manufacturing, starring Mark Robust (“A View From the Bridge”) and Lesley Manville (“Phantom Thread”), had an enthusiastically reviewed earlier run in London, and simply obtained 4 Olivier Award nominations (for finest revival in addition to for the work by Icke, Robust and Manville).
“Oedipus” is a industrial enterprise, with Sonia Friedman, Sue Wagner, John Johnson and Patrick Catullo as lead producers; Roundabout is presenting it this fall at Studio 54 and can provide it to subscribers as a part of the nonprofit’s season.
There have been a number of variations of “Oedipus Rex,” because the present is historically referred to as, on Broadway within the early twentieth century, however then it largely disappeared — the final manufacturing, a weeklong run in 1984, was carried out in fashionable Greek.
After “Oedipus,” Roundabout will pivot to lighter fare: The musical “The Rocky Horror Present” within the spring of 2026 at Studio 54, and the play “Fallen Angels,” that very same spring, on the Todd Haimes Theater. (The Haimes will shut this fall for a renovation, which can embody a restoration of the inside and an improve to the bogs, elevators and seats.)
“The Rocky Horror Present” is a 1973 sci-fi spoof by Richard O’Brien; it first ran on Broadway in 1975 and was revived as soon as earlier than, in 2000. The brand new manufacturing will probably be directed by Sam Pinkleton (“Oh, Mary!”), who had been scheduled to direct a model of the musical in 2020 at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, however that manufacturing was scuttled by the pandemic.
“Fallen Angels” is a 1925 comedy by Noël Coward about two married ladies with a shared ex-lover. This revival will probably be directed by Scott Ellis, the Roundabout’s interim creative director, and can star Rose Byrne (“Bridesmaids”) and Kelli O’Hara (a Tony winner for “The King and I”).
“Fallen Angels” has had two earlier Broadway productions, in 1927 and 1956.
Roundabout additionally has an Off Broadway theater, the Laura Pels, the place subsequent fall it plans to stage “Archduke,” a play by Rajiv Joseph (“Bengal Tiger on the Baghdad Zoo”) in regards to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Darko Tresnjak (a Tony winner for “A Gentleman’s Information to Love & Homicide”) will direct, and Patrick Web page (“Hadestown”) will star.
Roundabout plans to observe “Archduke” subsequent winter with an Off Broadway manufacturing of “Chinese language Republicans,” a satirical office drama by Alex Lin, directed by Chay Yew.
