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Jessica Chastain will return to Broadway in Lost Lear, joining Corey Stoll and Michael Urie for a 16-week engagement at the Booth Theatre. Previews are scheduled to begin March 29, 2027, with opening night set for April 23, according to the production announcement and entertainment trade reports.

The casting brings Chastain back to Broadway after her Tony-nominated performance in A Doll’s House. The new production also introduces New York audiences to Dan Colley’s play, which has already traveled from its Dublin premiere through international festival and touring runs.

Broadway dates and cast

Lost Lear is billed as a limited 16-week run at the Booth Theatre in Manhattan. Chastain will star as Joy, with Stoll and Urie in the cast. The schedule gives the production nearly four weeks of previews before its announced April 23 opening.

Chastain’s previous Broadway appearance was in the 2023 revival of A Doll’s House, for which she received a Tony nomination. Her return is a stage role rather than a film or television project, and the production places a contemporary play beside Shakespeare’s familiar title.

A play with a history before Broadway

Lost Lear is written and directed by Irish theatre-maker Dan Colley. The play premiered at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2022 and later toured in Ireland, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. It won the Scotsman Fringe First award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2025.

Colley describes the story as a darkly comic reworking of King Lear told through Joy, an actor living with dementia who remains inside a memory of rehearsing the Shakespeare play. That earlier production history makes the Broadway engagement a significant New York stage presentation of an existing work, rather than the play’s first outing.

Further casting and production details may be announced closer to the run. Readers can follow more celebrity and entertainment coverage from The Globuzz.

Sources and updates

Variety · People (the original publisher of Yahoo’s syndicated report) · Dan Colley’s official site