Broadway Rewind: THE HEIRESS Arrives on Broadway with Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens in 2012
By: Nicole Rosky Jul. 25, 2020
As Broadway remains dark, BroadwayWorld wants to make sure that you still get your theatre fix each and every day until it's back. In our daily series Broadway Rewind, we're uncovering footage from the depths of our archives so that you can relive magical moments of Broadway past!
Today we rewind to 2012 for the fourth Broadway revival of The Heiress. Written by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz, it played for 117 performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre, led by Jessica Chastain and Dan Stevens (in their Broadway debuts), with Judith Ivey and David Strathairn. Originally adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square, the play was made famous in by the 1949 film adaptation starring Olivia de Havilland and Montgomery Clift. The revival was directed by Moisés Kaufman.
Watch scenes from the play below!
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