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“Job,” a two-character thriller a couple of psychological analysis going awry, began small, with a run final yr at SoHo Playhouse. Word-of-mouth was good, the New York Times assessment was constructive and gross sales have been robust, so early this yr 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. Both of them appeared within the HBO collection “Succession” — Friedman was a member of the principal solid, enjoying 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 scary, 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 temporary — 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 contains communications consulting for New York Times 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 “How to Dance in Ohio.”
“Job” would be the newest signal of a surge to the stage by “Succession” alumni. Those embrace two of this yr’s Tony nominees — Jeremy Strong, who performed Kendall Roy on “Succession,” is nominated for “An Enemy of the People,” and Juliana Canfield, who performed Kendall’s assistant, Jess, is nominated for “Stereophonic.”
Also on Broadway, Natalie Gold, who performed Kendall’s ex-wife, Rava, is featured in “Appropriate.”
Meanwhile in London, Sarah Snook (Shiv Roy) received an Olivier Award final month for her efficiency in a one-woman model of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” that’s anticipated to switch to New York subsequent yr. Also in London, Brian Cox (Logan Roy) is starring in a revival of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” and J. Smith-Cameron (Gerri Kellman) is planning to star in a revival of “Juno and the Paycock” this fall.
