The New York Times is reporting that Andre De Shields, Aaron Lazar, Margarita Levieva, Marsha Mason, and Michael T. Weiss will join Tony Award winners Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons in the world premiere of Impressionism, a new American play by Michael Jacobs.
The production, which will be directed by Tony Award-winner Jack O'Brien, will play the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, reports Times.
Previews are set to begin on February 28th, with opening night scheduled for March 12th, 2009.
The production will mark Ms. Allen's first return to Broadway since The Heidi Chronicles in 1989, and Mr. Irons' first time on Broadway since The Real Thing in 1984.
Impressionism will be produced by Ostar Productions.
Impressionism is the story of a world traveling photojournalist and a New York gallery owner who discover each other and also that there might be an art to repairing broken lives.
Michael Jacobs has written for Broadway and television. His play, Cheaters, was produced on Broadway in 1978 at the Biltmore Theatre and his next play, Getting Along Famously, was produced Off-Broadway at the Hudson Guild Theatre. His fifteen television series have won the Emmy, People's Choice, Parent's Choice and Environmental Media Awards, among others. He produced the movie Quiz Show, which won the NY Film Critics' Circle Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Picture in 1994.
Jack O'Brien won Tony Awards for his direction of The Coast of Utopia, Henry IV, and
Hairspray. His other work on Broadway includes Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nomination), Imaginary Friends, The Invention of Love (Tony nomination), The Full Monty (Tony nomination), More to Love, Getting Away With Murder, Pride's Crossing, The Little Foxes, Hapgood, Damn Yankees, Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination), Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination); St. Louis Woman at Encores; The Most Happy Fella. He directed Il Trittico for the Metropolitan Opera. . As Artistic Director Emeritus of The Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, he led the organization from 1982 to 2007, where his productions include Twelfth Night, The Full Monty,
The Seagull, The Magic Fire,
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, Oleanna, Damn Yankees, King Lear, Ghosts, Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, Breaking Legs and Emily. TV: six movies for PBS's "American Playhouse."
Photo Of Jeremy Irons by Sara De Boer/ Retna Ltd.
Photo of Joan Allen by Ben Strothmann
