Leslye Headland, creator of the brand new Disney+ collection Star Wars: The Acolyte, will make her Broadway debut this fall with the Second Stage Theater manufacturing of her play Cult of Love. Journey Cullman (Foyer Hero, Choir Boy) will direct.
Headland’s play, making its New York premiere, begins performances on the Hayes Theater on Wednesday, November 20, with opening evening set for Thursday, December 12.
Cult of Love might be a part of the forty sixth anniversary season of Second Stage, which simply received the Tony Award for Greatest Revival/Play for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Applicable.
The corporate additionally introduced as we speak that its upcoming Off Broadway slate will embrace the New York premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse, directed by Kate Whoriskey and starring Reed Birney and Lisa Emery.
Previews of Lunar Eclipse start Wednesday, October 9, on the Tony Kiser Theater, with opening evening on Wednesday, October 30.
Further casting and full inventive groups might be introduced at a later date, as will extra productions.
Headland serves as author, director, government producer, and showrunner for The Acolyte, and was author, producing director and showrunner for Netflix’s Russian Doll.
Cult of Love will mark her return to Second Stage, which produced her Off Broadway performs Bachelorette in its Uptown Sequence and The Layover (directed by Cullman) on the Kiser Theater. Her movie directorial debut was an adaptation of Bachelorette starring Kirsten Dunst, which premiered on the Sundance Movie Competition in 2012.
Headland’s different credit embrace the Freeform collection Single Drunk Feminine, Terriers (FX), Heathers (Paramount) and the 2014 function movie remake of About Final Night starring Kevin Hart. She additionally wrote and directed 2015’s Sleeping with Different Individuals starring Jason Sudeikis.
The official synopsis for Cult of Love: “It’s the vacation season for the Dahl household! The 4 grownup youngsters return to their childhood residence with companions in tow. The Dahl traditions embrace singing carols in concord on the drop of a hat, however the gathering is something however harmonious. Outdated conflicts resurface, new points battled, and dinner is taking completely perpetually to be served. Will the love the Dahls have for one another be sufficient to get them by, or will this be their final Christmas collectively?”
Margulies’ Lunar Eclipse is described by Second Stage as “a stirring new play in regards to the fragility of reminiscence and the passage of time.”
The synopsis: “Late on a summer time evening, in a subject on their Kentucky farm, a long-married couple, George (Birney) and Em (Emery), have come to observe a lunar eclipse. Because the seven phases of the celestial phenomenon unfold, the 2 sip bourbon and mirror on land and legacy, and youngsters and canines. However as an increasing number of is revealed, they notice they’re as a lot a thriller to one another because the heavens above. Lunar Eclipse is the humorous, transferring, common story of a pair reckoning with the time they’ve spent on earth and the time they’ve left.”
