UPDATED: Tony Fire-Power For Albee Revival. Glenn Close, absent from Broadway since 2003, will return in the fall for an 18-week run opposite John Lithgow in a revival of Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance. All-star cast includes Lindsay Duncan (spectacular in the current film Le Week-End), Bob Balaban, Clare Higgins and Martha Plimpton. Pam MacKinnon, Tony winner last season for her engrossing revival of Albee’s Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, is set to direct the Scott Rudin production. Show will run at the the Shubert’s Golden Theatre beginning October 20, with opening night set for November 20. Rudin’s run of star-fired revivals includes this season’s Tony-nominated A Raisin In The Sun, with Denzel Washington; last fall’s Mike Nichols-directed version of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, with Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and Rafe Spall; and, earlier, Nichols’ Philip Seymour Hoffman-led stunner of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman in 2012.
Albee’s 1966 Pulitzer Prize winner features the married Agnes (Close) and Tobias (Lithgow), their grown daughter (Plimpton), returned home following serial wrecked marriages, and best friends Balaban and Higgins along with Agnes’s boozy sister Claire (Duncan). Close has three Tony Awards (for Sunset Boulevard, Death And The Maiden and The Real Thing). Broadway regular Lithgow’s Tonys are for The Changing Room and Sweet Smell Of Success. Duncan owns Tonys for Private Lives and Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
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