Metcalf

[edjames]

Today's NYPost reports that Laurie Metcalf already has her next Broadway show lined up!

 

Wouldn't be nice if the NYPost editors actually ran a spellcheck!

 

Laurie Metcalf to continue Broadway run with ‘Who’s Afraid of Virigina Woolf?

 

Laurie Metcalf and Eddie Izzard will star on Broadway together next year in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” to be produced by Scott Rudin and directed by Joe Mantello.

 

The legendary show centers on the volatile, boozy couple George and Martha, over the course of an increasingly contentious evening. The 1966 film version that won five Oscars was directed by Mike Nichols, and starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. It’s been performed on Broadway with casts including Tracy Letts and Amy Morton, Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara, and Diana Rigg and David Suchet.

 

The latest revival will have an opening night of April 9, 2020. It also marks “Roseanne” star Metcalf’s fourth recent big starring role on Broadway after her work in “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” “Three Tall Women” and her current show, “Hillary and Clinton,” also with Rudin and Mantello.

[Doe Be Doe]

More importantly Russell Tovey will be in it as well

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

More importantly? Tovey's role is a throwaway. It's just Scott Rudin stacking the cast.

 

The real fireworks are with George and Martha. I hope this one matches the Kathleen Turner/Bill Irwin revival back in 2005.

[Boy4]

I know she is playing HIllary Clinton in a play opening this weekend.