Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan Bring ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window’ to Broadway – The Hollywood Reporter
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan will bring Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window coming to Broadway this April in a late entry to the season.
The play written by Lorraine Hansberry will begin performing on April 25 and open on April 27, the last day to qualify for this season’s Tony Awards, at the James Earl Jones Theatre. Isaac and Brosnahan are reprising their roles in the Off-Broadway play performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which ends in March.
The play, staged by Seaview, Sue Wagner, Jeremy O. Harris and BAM, is scheduled to play only 80 roles. It was able to find a spot at the James Earl Jones Theater after the show Roomslated to occupy theaters starting April 3, has been unable to begin performances due to lack of funding.
This will mark the theatrical debut of Isaac, who most recently appeared on screen in Marvel’s Knights of the Moon and HBO’S WILLscene in a marriage. on the stage, Isaac, a Julliard graduate, has also appeared in Public Theater’s Romeo juliet And hamlet.
Brosnahan previously appeared on Broadway in the 2013 revival of Clifford Odets’ big knife at the Roundabout Theater Company. The announcement was made shortly before the release of the fifth and final season of Miraculous Madame Maisel, featuring Brosnahan, starting April 14.
Directed by Anne Kauffman, the play is Hansberry’s last staged work, exploring ideas about race, gender equality, sexuality, art, political corruption, idealism, and Bohemian culture. . The story follows struggling artists Sidney, played by Isaac, and Iris Brustein, played by Brosnahan, as they navigate their troubled marriage and its intersection with local politics in the Village. Greenwich in the 1960s.
Drama originally performed on Broadway in 1964 and then returned to Broadway for two weeks of performances in 1972.
The complete cast from the BAM production will move to Broadway, including Gus Birney (Gloria Parodus), Julian De Niro (Alton Scales), Glenn Fitzgerald (David Ragin), Andy Grotelueschen (Wally O’Hara), Miriam Silverman ( Mavis Parodus Bryson) and Raphael Nash Thompson (Max).
