“Three Days of Rain,” a Richard Greenberg drama about two generations of strained relationships connected by a Manhattan loft, will return to Broadway next winter with three screen stars.
David Corenswet (he was Hollywood's newest Superman) and François Arnaud (played Scott Hunter in last winter's sensation “Heated Rivalry”) will make their Broadway debuts in the play; They will be joined by Yvonne Strahovski, a star of “The Handmaid's Tale” who previously appeared in a 2012 Broadway revival of “Golden Boy.”
The play, performed for the first time in California in 1997, takes place in two time periods: in the first act, the three actors play a pair of brothers and a friend who meet to read a will; In the second act, 35 years earlier, the same actors play the parents of those characters. Critic Peter Marks wrote in one of his first reviews that the play is “about the mysteries of the heart that parents bequeath to their children.”
“Three Days of Rain” then ran Off-Broadway in 1997, starring Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery and Bradley Whitford. Reviews were encouraging and it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1998.
The play came to Broadway in 2006, starring Julia Roberts in her lively Broadway debut, as well as Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd. The reviews were not good. (“Fans of Mr. Greenberg,” wrote critic Ben Brantley in The New York Times, “should definitely stay home.”) But the show was a huge success, thanks to Roberts' enormous popularity.
The upcoming revival of “Three Days of Rain” will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, former artistic director of Steppenwolf Theater Company who won a Tony Award for directing “August: Osage County.” The lead producer is David Binder, artistic director of the Powerhouse: International festival and former artistic director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music; He has produced several shows, including “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
Greenberg, the playwright, died last year. He won the Tony Award for Best Play in 2003 for “Take Me Out.”
“Three Days of Rain” plans to begin performances in February; Specific dates and theater have not yet been announced, but producers said it would be presented at a theater operated by the Shubert Organization.
