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Julia Roberts, Paul Rudd, and
Sarah Paulson will star in
Small Mouth Sounds on Broadway. |
Julia Roberts and Paul Rudd will return to Broadway in an all-star production of Bess Wohl's
Small Mouth Sounds which previously played Off-Broadway in 2015. Roberts and Rudd co-starred in a staging of
Three Days of Rain in 2006 (which is also returning to Broadway this season.)
Small Mouth will be directed by three-time Tony winner Joe Mantello who will also be directing a new production of
Downstate on Broadway. This production is another in a growing trend of Broadway transfers of recent Off-Broadway critical success. (There are now 13 play revivals scheduled for Broadway this season and only four new plays.) Wohl is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for
Liberation which had a similar Off-to-on Main Stem trajectory.
Small Mouth won the John Gassner Award for Outstanding Play by a new American author from the Outer Critics Circle. Previews for
Small Mouth Sounds begin on Feb. 18, 2027 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in advance of a March 18 opening.
Also starring are Martin Freeman (The Hobbit), Greta Lee (The Morning Show), Tony and Drama Desk winner Sarah Paulson (Appropriate), and Isaac Powell (Once on This Island). The play concerns six strangers meeting at a spiritual retreat and trying to keep a vow of silence. Scott Rudin and Barry Diller are the producers.
