Just Jared Broadway Bulletin: Play Revivals!

With less than a week to go before the Tony Award nominations are announced, we still have some more shows to fill you in on!

All throughout April, JustJared.com is featuring the new musicals, musical revivals, new plays, and play revivals popping up on Broadway this season.

First up were the new musicals, then it was the new plays, and the musical revivals… and now we are talking about the play revivals!

For this week’s Broadway Bulletin, we’ll be featuring the revivals of the classic shows: Macbeth, The Big Knife, and The Trip to Bountiful.

Make sure to check back on Monday for our final feature and then on Tuesday for the Tony Award nominations announcement!

Click inside to learn about the play revivals on Broadway…

Macbeth

Tony Award® winner and two-time Emmy nominee Alan Cumming has returned to Broadway in Shakespeare’s darkest and most powerful tragedy, Macbeth.

Directed by Tony winner John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg, the show is set in a clinical room deep within a dark psychiatric unit. Cumming is the lone patient, reliving the infamous story and inhabiting each role himself. Closed circuit television camera watch the patient’s every move as the walls of the psychiatric ward come to life in a visually stunning multi-media theatrical experience.

Now open on Broadway!
Visit MacbethonBroadway.com for ticket info!

The Big Knife

Roundabout Theatre Company presents an electrifying new production of Clifford Odets‘s classic tale about keeping your integrity in the face of success, starring Emmy® Award�”winner and Tony Award®�”nominee Bobby Cannavale, and directed by Tony Award�”winner Doug Hughes.

In the golden age of Hollywood cinema, actors may have all the glory, but studio execs have all the power. The Hoff-Federated studio has had its most successful star, Charlie Castle, over a barrel ever since it helped cover up a mistake that could have ended his career. When a woman with insider knowledge threatens to come forward, the studio heads will stop at nothing to protect Charlie’s secret… but how far is he willing to go before he quits the movie business for good?

Now open on Broadway!
Visit RoundaboutTheatre.org for ticket info!

The Trip to Bountiful

Ending a 30 year absence, celebrated actress Cicely Tyson makes her triumphant return to Broadway in this eagerly anticipated new production, directed by the foremost interpreter of Horton Foote‘s work, Michael Wilson.

The Trip to Bountiful follows Carrie Watts (Tyson), an active, highly motivated widow living in a cramped apartment in Houston in the Spring of 1953 with her son (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and daughter-in-law (Vanessa Williams) . Carrie escapes her relatives’ watchful eyes to realize her dearest dream: to return to her beloved hometown, Bountiful. What starts as an ordinary trip soon becomes an inspiring and life-changing journey of discovery.

Now open on Broadway!
Visit TheTriptoBountifulBroadway.com for ticket info!