A Moon for the Misbegotten to Open at Brooks Atkinson in April
in A Moon for the Misbegotten
(© Old Vic Theatre)
The Old Vic’s critically acclaimed production of Eugene O’Neiil’s A Moon for the Misbegotten, starring Oscar winner Kevin Spacey, Eve Best, and Colm Meaney, will play a limited engagement at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre beginning March 29, with an official opening set for April 9. The London production will continue until December 23.
The show will be directed by Howard Davies, who directed the 1999 Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh that starred Spacey. The London production features set and costume design by Tony Award winner Bob Crowley.
The play, which is set in 1923, focuses on the relationship between the adult, alcoholic James Tyrone, Jr. and Josie Hogan, a farmer’s daughter. The character of Tyrone also appears in O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
This will be the fifth Broadway outing of the play, which debuted in 1957 with Wendy Hiller and Franchot Tone in the leads. Subsequent revivals starred Jason Robards, Jr. and Colleen Dewhurst (1973), Kate Nelligan and Ian Bannen (1984), and Cherry Jones and Gabriel Byrne (2000).
