Actress to star in Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons'
Katie Holmes is coming to Broadway.
Holmes has signed on for the fall revival of Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons,” joining a cast that will also include John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest and Patrick Wilson.
Simon McBurney, the Brit a.d. of legit troupe Complicite, will helm the production, which Eric Falkenstein (“Bridge & Tunnel”) will produce.
Miller’s first hit, “All My Sons” centers on a man (Lithgow) who harbors a secret about his past selling airplane parts to the U.S. military. Wiest will play his wife, while Wilson will portray one of their sons and Holmes the son’s paramour. Show won 1947 Tonys for play and director (Elia Kazan).
Broadway debut for Holmes reps another step in the thesp’s effort to reinvigorate a career that has been largely sidelined by her tabloid-fodder marriage to Tom Cruise. Her most recent film effort, “Mad Money,” proved a box office disappointment.
Staging of “Sons” will mark the first play by Miller to be seen on the Great White Way since the 2005 death of the scribe, whose landmark American dramas include “Death of a Salesman” and “The Crucible.”
Play was revived once before on the Rialto in 1987. “Sons” also was made into a 1948 pic starring Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster.
Tom Pye (“Top Girls”) will design sets and costumes for the revival. Dates and theater remain to be confirmed.
