“Job,” a two-character thriller a couple of psychological analysis going awry, began small, with a run final 12 months at SoHo Playhouse. Phrase-of-mouth was good, the New York Instances evaluation was optimistic and gross sales had been sturdy, so early this 12 months it transferred for an additional Off Broadway run on the Connelly Theater within the East Village.
Now the play, written by Max Wolf Friedlich and directed by Michael Herwitz, is planning to make the leap to Broadway, with a two-month run starting this summer season on the Hayes Theater.
The Broadway manufacturing, just like the Off Broadway runs, will star Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon. Each of them appeared within the HBO collection “Succession” — Friedman was a member of the principal solid, taking part in Frank Vernon, the chief working officer of Waystar Royco, and Lemmon appeared within the present at one level as a love curiosity of Kendall Roy.
Friedman is a mainstay of the New York stage who was nominated for a Tony Award for “Ragtime.” Lemmon has labored principally onscreen, together with within the Hulu streamer “Helstrom”; if her surname sounds acquainted, that’s as a result of she can also be the granddaughter of the nice actor Jack Lemmon.
In “Job,” Friedman performs a therapist who has been employed to guage Lemmon’s character for her suitability to return to work. (She has been suspended after a videotaped office breakdown.) Their interplay is fraught, and horrifying, from the get-go.
“Job” is scheduled to start previews July 15 and to open July 30 on the Hayes Theater, which, with about 600 seats, is the smallest home on Broadway. The run can be transient — it’s scheduled to finish on Sept. 29.
The play is being produced by Hannah Getts, who has been with the present at every stage of its manufacturing historical past; Alex Levy, a speechwriter and media strategist whose work consists of communications consulting for New York Instances executives; Craig Balsam, who co-founded the music firm Razor & Tie; and P3 Productions, the corporate that was the lead producer for final season’s musical “Learn how to Dance in Ohio.”
“Job” would be the newest signal of a surge to the stage by “Succession” alumni. These embrace two of this 12 months’s Tony nominees — Jeremy Sturdy, who performed Kendall Roy on “Succession,” is nominated for “An Enemy of the Folks,” and Juliana Canfield, who performed Kendall’s assistant, Jess, is nominated for “Stereophonic.”
Additionally on Broadway, Natalie Gold, who performed Kendall’s ex-wife, Rava, is featured in “Applicable.”
In the meantime in London, Sarah Snook (Shiv Roy) gained an Olivier Award final month for her efficiency in a one-woman model of “The Image of Dorian Grey” that’s anticipated to switch to New York subsequent 12 months. Additionally in London, Brian Cox (Logan Roy) is starring in a revival of “Lengthy Day’s Journey Into Night time” and J. Smith-Cameron (Gerri Kellman) is planning to star in a revival of “Juno and the Paycock” this fall.
