Two of my favorite actors, Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, are teaming up for the Broadway show, Grace.
The show, also starring Ed Asner and Kate Arrington, follows a wide-eyed young couple (Rudd & Arrington) as they start a new life in sunny, promise-filled Florida, with big plans to open a chain of Gospel motels. An agitated neighbor (Shannon) and a caustic exterminator (Asner) complete the eclectic foursome as destinies collide in this intensely entertaining and suspenseful journey to the edge of your seat.
It will have a strictly limited engagement beginning on Friday, September 14, 2012 with opening night set for Thursday, October 4 at a Shubert Theater to be announced.
Grace was written by Award-winning writer Craig Wright (Mistakes Were Made, Recent Tragic Events, Lady; “Six Feet Under”) and will be directed by Dexter Bullard (Tracy Letts’ BUG).
Grace first premiered to critical acclaim at The Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC in 2004, and was subsequently seen in a celebrated production at Northlight Theater in Chicago, and at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles (where it received 3 LA Drama Critics Circle Awards including Best Play).
Paul Rudd made his Broadway debut in Tony Award-winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo in 1997 and has since starred in Twelfth Night (1998), Three Days of Rain (2006) and Off Broadway in The Shape of Things (2001), among many other stage productions.
Kate Arrington, who is currently appearing at the Goodman Theatre in Iceman Cometh opposite Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy, is a Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member, whose productions there include The Hot L Baltimore, The Well-Appointed Room, The Pain and the Itch and The Violet Hour.
Ed Asner last appeared on Broadway in 1989, opposite Madeline Kahn in Born Yesterday.
This production of Grace marks its New York Premiere (in an updated script) and the Broadway debuts of playwright Craig Wright, director Dexter Bullard, and Michael Shannon, who have a fifteen-plus year history of collaboration in the theater on works including, most recently, Mistakes Were Made.
Complete design team, ticket information, and other Grace news will be announced shortly. www.graceonbroadway.com.
