The Vertical Hour, with Moore, Headed for the Music Box
By: BWW News Desk May. 26, 2006
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The New York Times reports that David Hare's latest play The Vertical Hour--featuring Oscar-nominated film star Julianne Moore's Broadway debut--will open at the Music Box Theatre in November.
The production, as previously announced, will be helmed by Tony Award-winner Sam Mendes, the British director whose films include American Beauty and whose Broadway credits include the revivals of Gypsy and Cabaret."The Vertical Hour will mark the first time Moore has been on a New York stage since her sensational 1992 appearance in Andre Gregory's Vanya on 42nd Street and the first time David Hare has premiered a play in America," stated earlier press notes."Nadia Blye (Moore) is a young American war correspondent turned academic who now teaches Political Studies at Yale. A brief holiday with her boyfriend in the Welsh borders brings her into contact with a kind of Englishman whose culture and beliefs are a surprise and a challenge, both to her and to her relationship. David Hare's new play, about the interconnection between our secret motives and our public politics, seeks to illustrate how life has subtly changed for so many people in the West in the new century."Videos
