The Stars Align on Stage
It may or may not come as a surprise, but many of Hollywood’s biggest stars are also veterans of the stage. From Oscar winners like Al Pacino (who also keeps two Tony Awards on his mantle) to red-hot nominees like Jessica Chastain (who appeared in Othello opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz), and Jake Gyllenhaal (who won London’s Evening Standard Award for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan’s This Is Our Youth), here is a look at the screen veterans who will be returning to their stage roots this fall on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and across America.
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Red-hot screen star Jessica Chastain makes her Broadway debut in The Heiress. A Julliard drama grad, her stage credits include Othello opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman and Salome opposite Al Pacino. The latter experience was turned into the film Wilde Salome.
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(© Tristan Fuge)
Jake Gyllenhaal makes his American stage debut in Nick Payne’s If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, 10 years after making his London debut in Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth.
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(© Tristan Fuge)
Jeff Goldblum, seen here in the Broadway production of Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, reprises his role as a tyrannical writing teacher in the play’s Los Angeles premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre. He previously appeared in The Pillowman and Twelfth Night.
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(© Jeremy Daniel)
Katie Holmes, the former Mrs. Tom Cruise, returns to Broadway after appearing in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy Dead Accounts.
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(© Joan Marcus)
In Jonathan Feldman’s The Death of the Novel Vincent Kartheiser, best known as the slimy ad man Pete Campbell on AMC’s Mad Men, plays a depressed novelist struggling to overcome a great loss in the aftermath of 9/11.
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(© Aja McCoy)
The beautiful Diane Lane takes on the role of fading screen star Alexandra Del Lago in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth. In 1978, she appeared in Elizabeth Swados’ Runaways.
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(© Tristan Fuge)
He may have played ruthless salesman Richard Roma on screen, but on stage, Al Pacino will take on the role of elder statesman Shelley Levene in Daniel Sullivan’s new production of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.
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(© Tristan Fuge)
Paul Rudd, starring in Grace is no stranger to the stage, having appeared in Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things and Richard Greenberg’s Three Days Of Rain opposite Julia Roberts, as pictured here.
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(© Joan Marcus)
Miss Saigon Tony Award-winner Lea Salonga joins Star Trek star George Takei in Allegiance at the Old Globe in San Diego.
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(© Henry DiRocco)
You may know him best as geeky paleontologist Ross Geller on the sitcom Friends, but David Schwimmer has a prolific stage career, co-founding Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Company. He last appeared in New York on Broadway in The Caine Mutiny-Court Martial.
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(© Tristan Fuge)
A veteran of plays and musicals, Brooke Shields, seen here in her acclaimed turn in Wonderful Town, returns to the stage as part of the cast of the Culture Project’s 10th anniversary revival of The Exonerated. She was recently seen in Los Angeles in The Exorcist and on Broadway as Morticia in The Addams Family.
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(© Paul Kolnik)
Clueless favorite Alicia Silverstone returns to Broadway after successful runs in Time Stands Still and The Graduate in David West Read’s new porn industry-themed comedy The Performers.
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(© Tristan Fuge)
A stage actor and director, Kathleen Turner is currently appearing in Red Hot Patriot at Arena Stage, and in November, will act in and helm The Killing of Sister George at the Long Wharf.
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(© Mark Gavin)
Recent Political Animals star Sigourney Weaver stars in frequent collaborator and Yale classmate Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the McCarter Theatre and Lincoln Center Theater. She also appeared in his plays Sex and Longing, Beyond Therapy, and Das Lusitania Songspiel, which she co-wrote.
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(© David Gordon)
Three-time Oscar nominee Debra Winger makes her Broadway debut in David Mamet’s The Anarchist, opposite two-time Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone. Her stage credits include the original production of The Exonerated, as well as How I Learned to Drive and Ivanov at Boston’s American Repertory Theater.
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(© Tristan Fuge)
