4th April 2023, Mumbai: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, a late season entry, will be performed on Broadway this April by Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.
The Lorraine Hansberry-penned play will begin performances on April 25 and premiere on April 27, the last day for this season’s Tony Awards eligibility. The play’s Off-Broadway engagement at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which closed in March, will be reprised by Isaac and Brosnahan.
Only 80 performances of the play, which was produced by Seaview, Sue Wagner, Jeremy O. Harris, and BAM, are planned. It was able to secure a time slot at the James Earl Jones Theatre after the Performance Room, which was scheduled to begin performances there on April 3, was cancelled due to lack of funding.
Isaac, who most recently made appearances on television in the HBO series Scenes from a Marriage and Marvel’s Moon Knight, will be making his Broadway debut with this. The Public Theater’s productions of Romeo & Juliet and Hamlet both featured Julliard alumnus Isaac on stage.
Brosnahan previously made a Broadway debut in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2013 production of Clifford Odets’ The Great Knife. Just before the premiere of the fifth and last season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, starring Brosnahan, on April 14, the announcement was made.
The play, which was directed by Anne Kauffman and was Lorraine Hansberry’s final staged performance, examines concepts of racism, gender equity, sexuality, art, governmental corruption, idealism, and bohemian culture. As they navigate their problematic marriage and its junction with neighbourhood politics in 1960s Greenwich Village, the drama follows struggling artists Sidney, played by Isaac, and Iris Brustein, played by Brosnahan.
The drama first appeared on Broadway in 1964 and then made a triumphant comeback there in 1972 for two weeks of performances.
The whole cast from the BAM production—Gus Birney as Gloria Parodus, Julian De Niro as Alton Scales, Glenn Fitzgerald as David Ragin, Andy Grotelueschen as Wally O’Hara, Miriam Silverman as Mavis Parodus Bryson, and Raphael Nash Thompson (Max)—will go to Broadway.
About The Main Leads
American actor Oscar Isaac Hernández Estrada is of Guatemalan descent. He has been recognised with shattering preconceived notions about Latino characters in Hollywood because of his flexibility. In 2017 Vanity Fair called him the best actor of his generation, while The New York Times named him one of the top 25 performers of the twenty-first century in 2020. His honours include a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award, a National Board of Review Award, and a Golden Globe Award.
American actress Rachel Elizabeth Brosnahan is an American actress who is best known for portraying Miriam “Midge” Maisel in the period comedy The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime Video (2017–present). For this role, she received two Golden Globe Awards in a row for Best Actress in a Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2018 and 2019.