Is Julie Taymor Returning To Broadway With A Revival of M. BUTTERFLY?

As reported by BroadwayWorld, Julie Taymor stated last week in a New York Post interview that she plans to have a project come to Broadway next spring or winter, but would not reveal further details.

Michael Riedel has now written in the New York Post that Taymor is in talks to direct a revival of David Henry Hwang's Tony-winning play, M. BUTTERFLY.

Hwang's drama, which opened on Broadway in 1988, is based on the true story of French diplomat who falls in love with a member of the Peking Opera, unaware that the object of his passion was a man. John Lithgow starred and B.D. Wong won a supporting actor Tony for his breakout performance.

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Taymor is best known for directing the stage musical, The Lion King, for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design.

She has also received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song. She also received the 2012 Director Award for Vision and Courage from the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in New York City. She was the director of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and an off-Broadway production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.