The play, which comes from the novelist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Emma Donoghue, world premiered in London with runs in Dublin, Scotland and Canada.
A stage adaptation of Room will come to Broadway this spring, starring Adrienne Warren.
The play was tailored for the stage by Emma Donoghue, who wrote the unique novel, revealed in 2010, and the Oscar-nominated screenplay for the 2015 movie. The stage manufacturing options songs and music by Scottish songwriters Kathryn Joseph and Cora Bissett, who additionally directs.
Warren, who just lately starred within the movie The Lady King and who received a Tony Award for her position because the lead of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, will play Ma, the position performed by Brie Larson within the movie.
“I'm really honored for the chance to return to Broadway in a undertaking in contrast to something I’ve accomplished earlier than,” Warren mentioned. “There have been many causes I needed to affix this staff in telling this story, however most significantly, I needed to share this fantastically human bond between a mom and her son. That is for all of the little Jacks on the market decided to carry on to their sense of pleasure and surprise and all of the Mas on the market doing their very best to dwell, love and defend via all of it.”
Room will start previews on the James Earl Jones Theatre on April 3 and open April 17. The restricted engagement runs via Sept. 17.
The story follows Ma, who was kidnapped as a teenage woman, and now lives together with her 5-year-old son Jack in a room in her captor’s backyard. Ma invents video games and tales to maintain Jack occupied whereas additionally plotting her escape.
The movie adaptation, starring Larson and Jacob Tremblay as Jack, was nominated for 4 Academy Awards, together with greatest image. Larson received one of the best actress Oscar for her portrayal of Ma.
The play involves Broadway after a 2017 world premiere on the Theatre Royal Stratford East in London and subsequent productions on the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, the Nationwide Theatre of Scotland, the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario and the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, Ontario.
Room is produced on Broadway by Sam Julyan, James Yeoburn, ShowTown Productions and Hunter Arnold. The play options set and costume design by Lily Arnold and projection design by Andrzej Goulding.
Further casting will likely be introduced at a later date.