New play CULT OF LOVE by Leslye Headland to open at Second Stage in December

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 6/26/24 at 11:46am

Trip Cullman directing; Previews begin at the Hayes November 20 ahead of December 12 opening

Updated On: 6/26/24 at 11:46 AM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 6/26/24 at 11:48am

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1159712

Donald Margulies has nothing to do with CULT OF LOVE. He wrote a different play on 2nd Stage's Off-Broadway season.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 6/26/24 at 12:02pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=1159712

Donald Margulies has nothing to do with CULT OF LOVE. He wrote a different play on 2nd Stage's Off-Broadway season."

Thanks! Corrected.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 3:09pm

“The CULT OF LOVE company will include Molly Bernard (TV Land’s “Younger”), Roberta Colindrez (Broadway’s Fun Home, 2ST’s Mala Hierba), Barbie Ferreira (HBO’s “Euphoria”), Rebecca Henderson(“Star Wars: Acolyte”), Christopher Lowell (Netflix’s “Glow,” Hulu’s “How I Met Your Father”), Zachary Quinto (Broadway’s The Boys in the Band and The Glass Menagerie), Christopher Sears (Off-Broadway’s The Harvest and Gently Down the Stream), and Emmy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe Award nominee Shailene Woodley (The Divergent Series, Ferrari, HBO’s “Big Little Lies”), who will be making her Broadway debut.

The roles of Bill Dahl and Ginny Dahl remain to be cast.”

[ChairinMain]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 5:02pm

They haven't announced who is playing whom, but Molly Bernard, Chris Lowell and Christopher Sears are continuing on from the (excellent) Berkeley Rep production as Daughter-in-Law Rachel, Son-in-law James and Youngest son Johnny. Quinto therefore must be playing the eldest brother, Mark, and I would imagine Woodley is playing eldest daughter Evie, who are the play's central roles. I would imagine that Rebecca Henderson (who is married to playwright Leslie Henderson) is playing Evie's wife Pippa...and so is in essence playing herself, since Evie is a loosely autobiographical character. I would guess Ferrera is playing the youngest, most religious sibling Diana, which is a plumb role, and I'm slightly disappointed that Kerstin Anderson, who was flawless, isn't continuing with the show to broadway, and Colindrez is playing Johnny's friend Loren, which while important is the smallest role in the show. But it's not official yet and I might be wrong about how that casting plays out. Possible that Henderson is playing Evie and Woodley is Diana, in which case Colindrez would slot in as Pippa and Ferrara as Loren. But unclear. This is fascinating casting. 

Updated On: 9/18/24 at 05:02 PM

[rburton66]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 5:48pm

Having been Harvey Weinstein’s personal assistant feels like it’d be a career ender for anyone, but I guess not. 

[inception]

Posted: 9/18/24 at 7:35pm

I just saw an ad the other night for a new doctor show starring Qiinto on NBC starting next week. It's called Brilliant Minds. Wikipedia says principal photography was completed in August in Toronto. If it gets picked up for another season, Quinto might not have time to do much Broadway after this.