The upcoming Fall season on Broadway is looking ever more
star-studded. Jude Law, Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles, and Laura Linney will
make appearances at Broadway theaters.
Law will star in a limited twelve-week Broadway run of Hamlet at the Broadhurst Theatre, which
transfers from London’s
Donmar Warehouse. Donmar’s creative director, Michael Grandage (Frost/ Nixon, The Philanthropist) will
direct, but it is still unclear exactly how many actors will transfer with Law
from the Donmar production. Law will also perform a five day, sold out
engagement at the Elsinore Castle in Denmark from Aug. 25 through 30.
The dark and snowy production of Hamlet will
start Sept. 12.
Oleanna, starring Pullman and Stiles, will transfer from its highly
successful Los Angeles
run to the Golden Theatre starting previews on Sept 29, opening night is
scheduled for Oct. 11. David Mamet’s play centers on the power struggle between
a male university professor and a female student in the politically correct
culture of the 1990s. Oleanna will be
directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt). Mamet is also set for a world premier
of his new play Race at the Ethel
Barrymore Theatre on Nov.17.
Linney will play the lead in Time Stands Still, by Donald Margulies, about a photographer
(Linney) and journalist who return home from documenting the war in the Middle East only to encounter the tribulations of a more
conventional lifestyle. The play will be directed by Tony Award winner Daniel
Sullivan (Proof) and additional casting, and the creative team for Time Stands Still will be announced in
the coming weeks. Previews begin on Jan. 5, opening night on Jan. 28, both at
Manhattan Theater Club’s Samuel J. Freidman Theater.
Pictured: Jude Law, the star of Hamlet, coming to Broadway in the Fall of 2009. (Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images)
--Jessica Glenza
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