Up on the Marquee: THE GIN GAME

The new Broadway production of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Gin Game, starring Tony Award-winners James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, will begin previews on Friday, September 18. The Gin Game, directed by Leonard Foglia (Master Class, Thurgood) opens Tuesday, October 13 at the Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue). The production will play a limited engagement through Sunday, January 10, 2016. Check out photos of the marquee below!

Mr. Jones and Ms. Tyson are sharing a Broadway stage for the first time since 1966, when they appeared in A Hand Is On The Gate at the Longacre Theatre. They also starred in the long-running Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks. They starred opposite each other in the film The River Niger and the TV movie "Heat Wave". Mr. Jones is a two-time Tony Award winner (Fences, The Great White Hope), three-time Emmy Award winner ("Heat Wave," "Gabriel's Fire," "Summer's End") and the recipient of a Grammy Award and an Honorary Academy Award. Ms. Tyson is a Tony Award-winner (The Trip to Bountiful), a three-time Emmy Award winner ("The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," "The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All") and an Academy Award nominee (Sounder).

Winner of the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Gin Game returns to the Golden Theatre where the original production opened in 1977, starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Since its premiere, the play has also been staged across the United States and all over the world. The Gin Game has also been filmed twice for television; in 1981 with original stars Cronyn and Tandy, and in 2003 with Dick van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

Theatre Marquee unveiling for James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson starring in 'The Gin Game' at the John Golden Theatre on July 8, 2015 in New York City.

Theatre Marquee unveiling for James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson starring in 'The Gin Game' at the John Golden Theatre on July 8, 2015 in New York City.

Theatre Marquee unveiling for James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson starring in 'The Gin Game' at the John Golden Theatre on July 8, 2015 in New York City.

Theatre Marquee unveiling for James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson starring in 'The Gin Game' at the John Golden Theatre on July 8, 2015 in New York City.

Theatre Marquee unveiling for James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson starring in 'The Gin Game' at the John Golden Theatre on July 8, 2015 in New York City.