Tickets are now on sale for the upcoming Broadway production of A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE, beginning previews on Broadway February 15th with an official opening date of March 4th. he four-member cast of Academy Award-winner Martin McDonagh's A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE stars Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken and stage and screen stars Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan.
The four-member cast of Academy Award-winner Martin McDonagh's A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE stars Academy Award-winner Christopher Walken and stage and screen stars Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan.
A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE will be McDonagh's first play to originate on Broadway.
The title is just the starting point; take a man searching for his missing hand (Walken), two con artists out to make a few hundred bucks (Mackie and Kazan), and an overly curious hotel clerk (Rockwell), and the rest is up for grabs. A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE is Martin McDonagh's hilariously black comedy, a world premiere which marks McDonagh's first American-set play.
The design team is comprised of Scott Pask (Set and Costume), who won a Tony Award for his set design for The Pillowman, and Brian MacDevitt (Lighting), who won a Tony Award for his lighting design for The Pillowman.
A BEHANDING IN SPOKANE will be produced by Robert Fox.
Christopher Walken (Carmichael) won the 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his astonishing performance in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, a role that also earned him the New York Film Critic's Circle Award, and a Golden Globe nomination. Walken also received a 2002 Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor and won BAFTA and SAG awards for his role opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me if You Can. Walken's film career skyrocketed after his unforgettable role as ‘Duane Hall,' brother to Diane Keaton's title character in Woody Allen's Oscar-winning Best Picture Annie Hall. Since then, Walken has appeared in more than 50 feature films including Herbert Ross' Oscar-nominated Pennies From Heaven, David Cronenberg's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone, James Foley's At Close Range opposite Sean Penn, Mike Nichols' Biloxi Blues, based on the Neil Simon play, Abel Ferrara's gritty crime-drama King of New York, Joe Roth's comedy America's Sweethearts co-starring Julia Roberts and Billy Crystal, Tony Scott's Man On Fire opposite Denzel Washington, Barry Levinson's Maon of the Year opposite Robin Williams, Frank Coraci's comedy, Click opposite Adam Sandler, the smash hit comedy Wedding Crashers opposite Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, and New Line's hit musical comedy, Hairspray opposite John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer. Walken has succeeded in creating some of the most memorable characters in film history, appearing in supporting and cameo roles such as: ‘Vincent Coccotti' in Tony Scott's True Romance, ‘Captain Koons' in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, ‘Carlo Bartolucci' in Suicide Kings, ‘The Headless Horseman' in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, and crooked businessman, ‘Max Shreck,' in Burton's Batman Returns. Walken began acting and dancing as a boy. He trained to be a dancer at the Professional Children's School in Manhattan, and eventually went on to appear in numerous stage plays and musicals. He received the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance in the Broadway production of The Lion In Winter, an Obie Award for his role in The Seagull, a Theatre World Award for The Rose Tatoo, and the 1997 Susan Stein Shiva Award for his work with Joseph Papp's Public Theatre. In the Fall of 1999, he co-starred in the stage adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead. In the summer of 2001, Christopher again appeared in a revival of Chekhov's The Seagull for the New York Shakespeare Festival, directed by Mike Nichols, opposite Meryl Streep. On television, Walken has hilariously and memorably hosted "Saturday Night Live" a total of 6 times since 1990 and contributed a mesmerizing dance performance to the Spike Jonze-directed music video for Fat Boy Slim's "Weapon of Choice."
