John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award®-winning Best Play has blazed back to Broadway starring Academy Award® and Tony nominee Amy Ryan and Tony winner Liev Schreiber. This “excellent new revival, directed by Scott Ellis, affords the pleasure of watching two supremely good actors going toe to toe” (The Wall Street Journal). “Ryan and Schreiber are electric on Broadway (Entertainment Weekly).”.
The fireworks begin as the exacting principal of a Bronx Catholic school—feared by students and colleagues alike—suspects improper relations between a charismatic priest and a student. She’s forced to wrestle with what’s fact, what’s fiction, and just how far she’ll go to expose what she sees as the truth. As the New York Post says, “It keeps the audience guessing and second-guessing through the play’s famous final line.”
The nun is certain, or says she is, that the priest is molesting one of the students in her school, but we never are so sure, thanks to John Patrick Shanley’s exquisitely well-crafted play, which debuted on Broadway in 2005, winning both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and four Tony Awards, including Best Play. In this first Broadway revival of “Doubt: A Parable,” which is running only through April 21 at Roundabout’s newly renamed Todd Haimes Theater, the deceptively simple script holds up, the production is sturdy, but only one of the four performances is superb. The others are serviceable, in roles made indelible in the original production (especially Cherry Jones as Sister Aloysius) or in the 2008 movie (Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Flynn.)
But the lead performances are miscalibrated. Schreiber’s gruff, salt-of-the-earth Flynn lacks a threatening underside, like a rock without worms squirming beneath. Ryan, a last-minute replacement for Tyne Daly, who withdrew from the production for health reasons, wields Aloysius’s iron-fisted quips like daggers. But she seems to throw them for the sake of it, with an absence of fear or disgust that what she believes might actually be true.
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Broadway Transfer Broadway |
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2017 | West End |
London Revival at Southwark Playhouse West End |
2024 | Broadway |
Roundabout Theatre Company Broadway Revival Production Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2024 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Doubt: A Parable |
2024 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Doubt: A Parable |
2024 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Doubt: A Parable |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Liev Schreiber |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Quincy Tyler Bernstine |
2024 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Amy Ryan |
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