NEW YORK (AP) – Cate Blanchett will make her Broadway debut next winter in Anton Chekhov’s first – and long-forgotten – play.
The Oscar winner and Academy Award nominee this year for “Carol” will star in “The Present” opposite Richard Roxburgh in the production that originated at the Sydney Theatre Company last summer.
It’s adapted by Andrew Upton, Blanchett’s playwright husband and former artistic director of the Sydney Theatre Company. It will be directed by John Crowley.
“The Present,” also known as “Platonov,” centers on Anna Petrovna, who is celebrating her 40th birthday at her summer home in the country. She holds a party that includes uncomfortably mismatched collection of characters.