HBO to Bring 'Magical Thinking' to the Small Screen?

Variety reports that HBO might soon be bringing the one-woman play The Year of Magical Thinking, starring Vanessa Redgrave in a Drama Desk Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated performance, to the small screen.

A deal is currently in negotiations for the project; an airdate has not been announced.

The Year of Magical Thinking opened March 29th at Broadway's Booth Theatre. The one-woman production, written by acclaimed author Joan Didion and based on her best-selling memoir, stars Redgrave (Oscar-winner for Julia) and will run for a limited engagement of 24 weeks. David Hare directs. 

The Year of Magical Thinking follows Didion, author of Democracy and Slouching Towards Bethlehem, reflecting on the sudden death of her husband of 40 years as her only child lay in a coma. "Capturing the compassion, humor, and bewilderment of a fiercely intelligent woman whose world lurches suddenly from the ordinary to the unimaginable, The Year of Magical Thinking is a love letter to a child and a tribute to an extraordinary, unconventional marriage told with raw candor and a storyteller's gift for the absurd," state press releases.

For more information, visit www.MagicalThinkingonBroadway.com.

Photo of Vanessa Redgrave in The Year of Magical Thinking by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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