Theater News: Eclipsed with Lupita Nyong’o Coming To Broadway In 2016Posted by Wilson Morales
October 20, 2015
The Public Theater (Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis; Executive Director, Patrick Willingham) is pleased to announce that producers Stephen Byrd and Alia Jones-Harvey will transfer the acclaimed new American play ECLIPSED by Danai Gurira and directed by Liesl Tommy to Broadway in the spring following a sold-out run at The Public Theater, which extended twice and will end its run on Sunday, November 29. Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o will reprise her role on Broadway for this strictly limited engagement.
Previews are set to begin on Broadway on Tuesday, February 23 prior to an official opening night on Sunday, March 6 at the Golden Theatre (252 W. 45th Street). Tickets for the Broadway engagement will go on sale at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 20 for a Citibank presale through 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday, November 2 at 10:00 a.m. at Telecharge 212-239-6200. For more information visit EclipsedBroadway.com.
“I am thrilled beyond words that we are able to bring this magnificent and powerful play to Broadway after its sold-out performance at The Public Theater and to provide another opportunity for everyone to experience and witness these incredible performances,” said Producer Stephen Byrd.
ECLIPSED is produced on Broadway by Stephen Byrd, Alia Jones-Harvey, Paula Marie Black, Willette Klausner, Carole Shorenstein Hays and The Public Theater.
“Eclipsed is a powerful, brilliant play and I am thrilled there is such a tremendous appetite for it from the world,” said Artistic Director Oskar Eustis. “Liberia was founded by Americans, and is a living example of how America continues to impact the world, both by our attention and by our distraction. Bravo to Danai Gurira, Liesl Tommy, Lupita Nyong’o, and all the astounding artists of Eclipsed.”
This stunning, deeply moving new American play by award-winning Zimbabwean-American Playwright/Actress, Danai Gurira (co-author of In the Continuum and Michonne on AMC’s hit series “The Walking Dead”) features Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave) returning to the stage. Amid the chaos of the Liberian Civil War, the captive wives of a rebel officer band together to form a fragile community – until the balance of their lives is upset by the arrival of a new girl. Drawing on reserves of wit and compassion, ECLIPSED reveals distinct women who must discover their own means of survival in this deeply felt portrait of women finding and testing their own strength in a hostile world of horrors not of their own making. South African born Liesl Tommy (Appropriate and The Public’s The Good Negro) directs this magnificent story of survival and resilience.
