Producers have announced that the first Broadway revival of the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning Wendy Wasserstein play The Heidi Chronicles will begin performances February 23, 2015, at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street) with an official opening on Thursday, March 19, 2015. It will star Golden Globe-winner and six-time Emmy Award-nominee Elisabeth Moss ("Mad Men," "Top of the Lake," Speed-the-Plow) as Heidi Holland - a woman willing to do what it takes to take on the world. It will also star Emmy Award-nominee Jason Biggs ("Orange Is The New Black," American Pie), and Tony Award-nominee Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson), and will feature Tracee Chimo (Lips Together, Teeth Apart, "Orange Is The New Black," Bad Jews) with additional casting to be announced.
Tony Award-winner
Pam MacKinnon (
Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance,
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Clybourne Park) will direct. The creative team will include scenic design by
John Lee Beatty and costume design by
Jessica Pabst.
Tickets will go on sale to the general public beginning November 21, 2014, and will be available at
Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.
The Heidi Chronicles, which traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland as she tries to find her bearings in a rapidly changing America, was first produced by
Playwrights Horizons in the Fall of 1988. Subsequently, it moved to Broadway under the egress of The
Shubert Organization,
Suntory International Corporation and
James Walsh. It was the most acclaimed play of the season, and won the Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and the
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.