RIALTO CHATTER: Weaver & Kline to Star in Broadway's POOR BEHAVIOR Next Fall?
By: Rialto Chatter Apr. 23, 2010
Michael Riedel reports in the New York Post this morning that Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline may headline a production of Theresa Rebeck's POOR BEHAVIOR on Broadway in the fall of this year. According to Riedel, a "top secret" reading of the play was held on Monday, April 19, with Weaver, Kline, Dylan Baker and Laila Robbins. Doug Hughes directed.
The play centers on two couples who retreat to the country together but find little R & R.
To read Riedel's full report in the post, click here.
If true, this production will mark Weaver's return to Broadway in over a decade, having last appeared on a Broadway stage in Sex and Longing in 1996. Additional Broadway credits include Hurlyburly and The Constant Wife. Known best as a "Sci-Fi Queen," Weaver starred as Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott's Alien (1979), Aliens (1986) directed by James Cameron, and two other sequels in the "Alien" series, a role for which she has received worldwide recognition. She is also known for her roles as Dana
Barrett in the Ghostbusters films, Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist, Janey Carver in The Ice Storm, Max Conners in Heartbreakers (2001), Warden Walker in Holes (2003), and Dr. Grace Augustine in Avatar (2009). Weaver is also a three-time Academy Award nominee for her performances in Aliens (1986), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), and Working Girl (1988) winning Golden Globe Awards in the latter two films.
Tony and Drama Desk-winning actor Kevin Kline was last on Broadway in Cyrano de Bergerac in the 2007-2008 season. He boasts among his extensive Broadway credits The Pirates of Penzance, Henry IV, and On the Twentieth Century among nearly a dozen others. An artistic associate of The Public Theatrr, Kline has appeared in the Public's productions of Shakespeare's Henry V, Richard III, and two turns as Hamlet- once in 1986 and again in 1990 where he also served as director. He has won an Academy Award, two Tony Awards and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2009.
Photo Credit (b): Walter McBride
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