Broadway NewsDustin Hoffman Will Star in Broadway Revival of Our TownBartlett Sher will direct the Scott Rudin production.
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Dan Meyer
June 30, 2020
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Dustin Hoffman will tread the boards once more, taking on the Stage Manager in a Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town. The staging comes from mega-producer Scott Rudin, with Bartlett Sher attached to direct (Sher recently helmed the Rudin-produced To Kill a Mockingbird).
Hoffman was last seen on the Main Stem as Shylock in the 1989 revival of The Merchant of Venice, for which he earned a Tony nomination. He opened the production months after winning an Oscar for his performance in Rain Man.
The production, reports, does not have any specific timeline or additional casting, given that the COVID-19 pandemic has kept Broadway at least January 3, 2021.
Our Town is one of a handful of new productions announced since the shutdown, including Alice Childress鈥� Trouble in Mind . The Hugh Jackman- and Sutton Foster-led revival of The Music Man, also produced by Rudin, its October opening to May of next year.
The 1938 play follows the inhabitants of a small New England town as they grow up, get married, and discover the beauty of life. It was most recently revived on Broadway in 2002, with Paul Newman as the Stage Manager.
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Look Back at Past Performances of Our Town on Broadway
Look Back at Past Performances of Our Town on Broadway
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Martha Scott and cast of the 1938 production of Our Town
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Martha Scott and John Craven in the 1938 production of Our Town
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Cast of the 1938 production of Our Town
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Helen Carew, Doro Merande, and Evelyn Varden in the 1938 production of Our Town
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