Jessica Lange Leads Starry Cast of New Paula Vogel Play on Broadway

Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will return to Broadway subsequent spring to star in a brand new household drama by the acclaimed playwright Paula Vogel.

The present, referred to as “Mother Play,” begins outdoors Washington in 1962, and is a couple of strong-willed mom elevating two youngsters because the household relocates.

Lange, 74, will play the mom. She is a two-time Oscar winner (for “Tootsie” and “Blue Sky”) who received a Tony Award in 2016 for taking part in one other tough mom — Mary Tyrone in a revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”

Keenan-Bolger, 45, is a four-time Tony nominee who received the prize in 2019 for “To Kill a Mockingbird”; she is going to play the daughter. Parsons, 50, who final appeared on Broadway in a 2018 manufacturing of “The Boys in the Band,” will play the son.

Vogel, who is taken into account one of many nation’s main lecturers of playwriting in addition to a prime practitioner of the craft, received a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for “How I Learned to Drive,” which was later staged on Broadway in 2022. She has had one different Broadway outing with the play “Indecent,” which was staged in 2017.

“Mother Play” might be directed by Tina Landau (“SpongeBob SquarePants”) and introduced on Broadway by Second Stage Theater, a nonprofit devoted to work by residing American writers. The play is scheduled to start previews April 2 and to open April 25 on the Helen Hayes Theater, which is a small Broadway home owned by Second Stage.

“Mother Play” will observe Second Stage’s Broadway manufacturing of “Appropriate,” a 2014 drama by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, additionally on the Hayes. That manufacturing might be directed by Lila Neugebauer and can star Sarah Paulson; previews start Nov. 29 and the opening is scheduled for Dec. 18.