Jim Parsons, Zoey Deutch and Katie Holmes will star within the Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our City this fall.
Within the manufacturing, directed by Kenny Leon, Parsons will play the function of Stage Supervisor, Deutch will play Emily Webb and Holmes will play Mrs. Webb. They lead a solid of 28 actors, who additionally embrace Richard Thomas (The Waltons, To Kill a Mockingbird) as Mr. Webb, Ephraim Sykes (Ain’t Too Proud, Hairspray Reside!) as George Gibbs and Billy Eugene Jones (Purlie Victorious) as Dr. Gibbs.
The play will start previews on the Barrymore Theatre on Sept. 17, forward of an Oct. 10 opening.
Recognized for his function as Sheldon Cooper on The Huge Bang Principle, Parsons additionally has intensive stage credit, together with a task in Mom Play, which begins Broadway previews on April 3. He has beforehand appeared on Broadway in productions together with The Boys within the Band, An Act of God and The Regular Coronary heart.
Holmes can be identified for her on-screen function in Dawson’s Creek and filmography together with Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins, Peter Hedges’ Items of April and Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm. She appeared Off-Broadway final season in The Wanderers and has beforehand appeared on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Theresa Rebeck’s Useless Accounts.
Deutch will likely be making her Broadway debut within the function. She has appeared on display screen in movies together with Set It Up, Zombieland: Double Faucet and most recently Not Okay for Searchlight/Hulu, and One thing from Tiffany’s for Amazon/Hey Sunshine.
That is the primary main Broadway revival of Our City in near 25 years. The play first appeared on Broadway in 1938 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Leon directed Purlie Victorious on Broadway this previous fall and is scheduled to direct the upcoming Othello, starring Denzel Washington, a longtime collaborator with Leon, and with Jake Gyllenhaal. He has directed earlier variations of Our City, together with a profit studying starring the Marvel actors Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans and Jeremy Renner throughout filming for The Avengers films.
“Thornton Wilder’s Our City – in my thoughts stands on the high of the Mount Rushmore of nice American theatre,” Leon mentioned. “I really feel blessed and lucky to have gained the belief of The Wilder property to current this traditional to a different technology of theatre lovers. It’s lengthy been a burning want to collaborate on a Broadway manufacturing of such magnitude that speaks so superbly and intimately to all individuals about our shared time on the planet.”
The manufacturing additionally stars Michelle Wilson (Sweat) as Mrs. Gibbs, Julie Halston (Tootsie) as Mrs. Soames and Donald Webber Jr. (Purlie Victorious) as Simon Stimpson.
The manufacturing is lead produced by Jeffrey Richards. Our City consists of scenic design by Beowulf Boritt, costume design by Dede Ayite, lighting design by Allen Lee Hughes and sound design by Justin Ellington.