“Three Days of Rain,” a time-shifting Richard Greenberg drama about two generations of fraught relationships connected by a Manhattan loft, will return to Broadway next winter with three screen stars.
David Corenswet (he was Hollywood’s most recent Superman) and François Arnaud (he played Scott Hunter in last winter’s streaming sensation “Heated Rivalry”) will make their Broadway debuts in the play; they will be joined by Yvonne Strahovski, a star of “The Handmaid’s Tale” who previously appeared in a 2012 Broadway revival of “Golden Boy.”
The play, first staged in California in 1997, takes place in two time periods: in the first act, the three actors play a pair of siblings and a friend who gather for the reading of a will; in the second act, 35 years earlier, the same actors play those characters’ parents. The critic Peter Marks wrote in an early review that the play is “about the mysteries of the heart that parents bequeath to their children.”
“Three Days of Rain” then ran Off Broadway in 1997, starring Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery and Bradley Whitford. Reviews were encouraging, and it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1998.
The play arrived on Broadway in 2006, starring Julia Roberts in her buzzy Broadway debut, as well as Bradley Cooper and Paul Rudd. Reviews were not good. (“Fans of Mr. Greenberg,” the critic Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times, “should definitely stay home.”) But the show was a big hit, thanks to Roberts’s enormous popularity.
The forthcoming revival of “Three Days of Rain” will be directed by Anna D. Shapiro, the former artistic director of Steppenwolf Theater Company who won a Tony Award for directing “August: Osage County.” The lead producer is David Binder, who is the artistic director of the Powerhouse: International festival and a former artistic director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music; he has produced multiple shows, including “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
Greenberg, the playwright, died last year. He won the best play Tony Award in 2003 for “Take Me Out.”
“Three Days of Rain” plans to begin performances in February; the specific dates and theater have not yet been announced, but the producers said it would be staged at a theater operated by the Shubert Organization.
