Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will return to Broadway next spring to star in a new family drama by the acclaimed playwright Paula Vogel.
The show, called “Mother Play,” begins outside Washington in 1962, and is about a strong-willed mother raising two children as the family relocates.
Lange, 74, will play the mother.
She is a two-time Oscar winner (for “Tootsie” and “Blue Sky”) who won a Tony Award in 2016 for playing another difficult mother — Mary Tyrone in a revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”Keenan-Bolger, 45, is a four-time Tony nominee who won the prize in 2019 for “To Kill a Mockingbird”; she will play the daughter.
Parsons, 50, who last appeared on Broadway in a 2018 production of “The Boys in the Band,” will play the son.
Persons:
Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, Celia Keenan, Bolger, Paula Vogel, ”, Lange, — Mary Tyrone, “, ” Keenan, Tony, Parsons
Organizations:
Broadway
Locations:
Washington