Tomei to star in Broadway revival of 'The Rose Tattoo'

Michael Paulson

May 21, 2019 10:29 AM

NEW YORK — Marisa Tomei will star this fall in a Broadway revival of the Tennessee Williams play “The Rose Tattoo.”

Tomei to star in Broadway revival of 'The Rose Tattoo'

The Roundabout Theater Company, a large nonprofit that operates three Broadway houses, said Monday that it would bring the production to the American Airlines Theater with previews beginning Sept. 19 and an opening night Oct. 15.

The production, directed by Trip Cullman, was first staged by the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts in 2016.

The play is about a Gulf Coast seamstress rebuilding her life after the death of her husband. It first ran on Broadway in 1951, starring Maureen Stapleton, who reprised the role in a 1966 revival; it was then revived again in 1995 with Mercedes Ruehl.

Tomei, an Academy Award winner for “My Cousin Vinny,” has appeared in four previous Broadway plays, most recently “The Realistic Joneses” in 2014.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.

Michael Paulson

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