Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan Taking 'Sidney Brustein' To Broadway
Broadway news: A revival of Lorraine Hansberry's "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan will transfer to Broadway from @BAM_Brooklyn, opening on April 27, which will make it the last show to open this season. https://t.co/5MKXmhSCp6
- Michael Paulson (@MichaelPaulson) April 4, 2023
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan are going to Broadway.
The revival of Lorraine Hansberry's play The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window is transferring at the very last minute from its off-Broadway run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater to the James Earl Jones Theater, making it the last Tony-eligible production of the 2022-2023 season.
The play will only have two days of previews before opening on April 27th, which is the last day a show can open and still be eligible for Tony Awards, and will run for 10 weeks. The play just closed at BAM, receiving mixed reviews but selling out 98% of the tickets in its run.
The play is Hansberry's last work before her death from cancer at 34, and is about "a left-leaning couple (played by Isaac and Brosnahan) living in Greenwich Village in the 1960s and facing challenges to both their marriage and their political ideals." This production is directed by Anne Kauffman, and also stars Gus Birney, Julian De Niro, Glenn Fitzgerald, Andy Grotelueschen, Miriam Silverman, and Raphael Nash Thompson. Understudies include Joey Auzenne, Katya Campbell, Gregory Connors, and Brontë England Nelson.
The James Earl Jones Theater was originally scheduled to be hosting the theatrical adaptation of Room during this time frame, but financing for the production fell apart just a short while before opening.
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