Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger to Star in ‘Mom Play’ on Broadway

Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger will star on the earth premiere of Mom Play on Broadway. 

The play, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel, who wrote How I Realized to Drive and Indecent, and directed by Tina Landau, will play a restricted engagement at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater beginning April 2, with a gap night time on April 25.

This marks Lange’s first return to Broadway since she starred as Mary Tyrone within the 2016 revival of A Lengthy Day’s Journey Into Night time, for which she acquired a Tony Award for lead actress in a play. The American Horror Story and Tootsie star made her Broadway debut in A Streetcar Named Want and in addition appeared in The Glass Menagerie on Broadway.

Parsons, who starred within the long-running sitcom The Large Bang Principle, not too long ago appeared Off-Broadway in a revival of A Man of No Significance. He has starred on Broadway in An Act of God, the revival of Harvey, The Regular Coronary heart and The Boys within the Band.

Bolger returns to Broadway after showing within the 2022 manufacturing of To Kill A Mockingbird, as Scout, in addition to quite a few different Broadway credit, together with The Cherry Orchard, The Glass Menagerie and The twenty fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Mom Play, set in 1962 outdoors of Washington D.C., follows a matriarch named Phyllis and her teenage youngsters, Carl and Martha, as they transfer into a brand new residence. The manufacturing describes the plot saying: “Phyllis has robust concepts about what her youngsters have to do and be to succeed, and woe be the kid who finds their very own path. Bolstered by gin and cigarettes, the household endures — or survives — the altering world round them.”

Landau, who beforehand directed SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, helms the manufacturing, which options scenic design by David Zinn, costume design by Toni-Leslie James, lighting design by Jen Schriever and sound design by Jill BC Du Boff.