Grey House on Broadway, Spring 2023, directed by Joe Mantello

[Robbie516]

Posted: 2/19/23 at 2:44pm

About two weeks ago there was a test event up for a show at the Lyceum theatre has anyone heard anything about this? Usually once a test events goes up news goes out a few days after? I wonder what show it could be and if it possibly fell through like a man of no importantance

Updated On: 2/20/23 at 02:44 PM

[Dylan Smith4]

Posted: 2/19/23 at 3:00pm

I kept hearing the Lyceum will be home to the West End cabaret but I think that was debunked. Do you happen to have a screenshot of the test event? 

[Robbie516]

Posted: 2/19/23 at 3:12pm

No but previews were said to start April 27

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 2/19/23 at 3:13pm

Robbie516 said: "No but previews were said to start April 27"

Last I heard, Kate Berlant’s one-person show Kate was set to play the Lyceum early next season. 

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 2/19/23 at 3:39pm

Robbie516 said: "No but previews were said to start April 27"

April 29, which was the only actual information it offered.

Updated On: 2/19/23 at 03:39 PM

[Robbie516]

Posted: 2/19/23 at 9:17pm

I know it is just very weird we haven’t heard anything about it

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 12:11pm

Looks like the mystery has been solved:

https://www.playbill.com/job/grey-house-broadway-nyc-epa-03-03-23-03-08-23/1f5dc310-c2d5-43dd-bed2-9bb74f29e418

Synopsis of the play from its 2019 run in Chicago:

"After a brutal car wreck in the mountains of Oregon, a young couple seeks shelter from a blizzard in a small cabin. But the cabin's seemingly innocent inhabitants: four children and their minder, quickly start to expose the couple's secrets, unmake everything they know about themselves, and hurl them towards a potentially sinister destination. Grey House is a new horror play about the gravity of the past, and the cruel inevitability of its pull."

Updated On: 2/20/23 at 12:11 PM

[JoeW4]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 12:21pm

Sounds pretty interesting!

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-ent-grey-house-red-orchid-review-1022-20191021-khfotrodjff2lm5ybsx3xlayv4-story.html

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 12:47pm

Love a horror play! But this sounds like a movie or something I watched not too long ago but can’t place exactly what it was..

[RippedMan]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 1:21pm

Sounds like they must have names attached with Joe Mantello at the helm. 

[KJisgroovy]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 1:31pm

A Red Orchid, where this play premiered, is a TINY theater. Where the front row is on stage and there are only two rows of seats. It's hilarious to imagine this playing at the Lyceum. I adored this play but you should know it's not just a horror play but also incredibly WEIRD and a little gross.

I'm excited!

[BoringBoredBoard40]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 3:00pm

Very surprised this is going into the Lyceum and not CITS

and yes, this play gets VERY weird and gross (wondering if they keep the nudity as well)

[Robbie516]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 4:07pm

Yes definitely stars in this has casting says three have been cast already also Joe mantello shows always have someone in them

[Tag]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 4:12pm

Jordan Catalano said: "Love a horror play! But this sounds like a movie or something I watched not too long ago but can’t place exactly what it was.."

Knock at the Cabin?

[Ke3]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 4:22pm

i’m pretty sure i know what film Jordan means. early 2020ish? a film about a stepmother who ends up alone with her step kids at a cabin and something is attacking them? at least that’s what i gathered from the trailer 

[jpbran]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 4:57pm

The Lodge?

[Robbie516]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 5:02pm

Wouldn’t be surprised if Laurie Metcalf is in this…she works with him a lot and there is a character who fits her well that has been cast.

[JasonC3]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 5:21pm

Metcalf being cast would test my lack of interest in the horror genre.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 7:02pm

KJisgroovy said: "A Red Orchid, where this play premiered, is a TINY theater. Where the front row is on stage and there are only two rows of seats. It's hilarious to imagine this playing at the Lyceum. I adored this play but you should know it's not just a horror play but also incredibly WEIRD and a little gross.

I'm excited!"

They can always beef up a production. That's why you've got tiny productions of Sweeney and massive productions. Someone must have seen it and loved it to open it cold on Broadway.

[gibsons2]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 7:20pm

Jordan Catalano said: "Love a horror play! But this sounds like a movie or something I watched not too long ago but can’t place exactly what it was.."

"I'm thinking of ending things" with Toni Colette?

[quizking101]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 7:24pm

JasonC3 said: "Metcalf being cast would test my lack of interest in the horror genre."

She has a Tony nomination from her work in MISERY, so I definitely would think horror is somehow in her wheelhouse

[east side story]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 7:45pm

Metcalf can do anything.

And I’m still holding out hope that Mantello’s pre-pandemic revival of Virginia Woolf? starring Metcalf will see the light of day again.

[JasonC3]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 7:55pm

quizking101 said: "JasonC3 said: "Metcalf being cast would test my lack of interest in the horror genre."

She has a Tony nomination from her work in MISERY, so I definitely would think horror is somehow in her wheelhouse"

Yeah, I know it is in her wheelhouse and hopefully didn't suggest otherwise. It's just not high on my interests in what I want to see on stage.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/20/23 at 8:09pm

east side story said: "And I’m still holding out hope that Mantello’s pre-pandemic revival of Virginia Woolf? starring Metcalf will see the light of day again."

I highly doubt that but weirder things have happened. As we know, Metcalf really doesn't sell tickets, and her costar Rupert Everett means even less. Maybe at an off-Bway nonprofit or for Audible.

The whole Metcalf run felt like a Rudin exercise in trying to "build" a star. He produced LADY BIRD, DOLL'S HOUSE 2, THREE TALL WOMEN, HILLARY & CLINTON, and VIRGINIA WOOLF. We got some good plays out of it, but 3TW is the only one that recouped (and barely so at that).

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 2/21/23 at 12:03pm

Up on Telecharge, and the cast is:

Laurie Metcalf

Tatiana Maslany

Paul Sparks

Sophia Anne Caruso

Millicent Simmonds