Jessica Chastain is coming back to Broadway this spring in Lost Lear, a new play written and directed by Dan Colley, for a 16-week engagement at the Booth Theatre. Corey Stoll and Michael Urie complete the announced cast, and tickets are on sale now.
Previews begin on Monday, March 29, 2027, and opening night is set for Friday, April 23, at the Booth Theatre on West 45th Street. The run is a limited one, and it will be the first time Chastain has appeared in a brand-new play; her last Broadway outing was the revival of A Doll's House, which brought her a Tony nomination. Colley makes his Broadway debut as both writer and director.
The play centers on Joy, played by Chastain, a former actress whose hold on the present is loosening and who is convinced she is back in rehearsals for King Lear. In the care home where she now lives, her nurse Liam (Urie) goes along with it, taking on whichever part she needs from him. Her estranged son Conor (Stoll) arrives with years of unspoken grievances to settle, and finds that the only way to be heard is to join the scene she is playing.
Broadway is the latest stop for a piece that has already traveled a long way. Lost Lear premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2022, has since toured the US, the UK and New Zealand, and won a Scotsman Fringe First when it played the Traverse Theatre at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The producers count 22 five-star reviews along the way, among them the Financial Times, which called it "an astonishing piece of theatre", and The Stage, which settled on "devastating stuff, deftly done."
"I never imagined, when we first made Lost Lear, that it would one day be on Broadway – and I've imagined some pretty wild things," Colley said. "I'm so thrilled to have the opportunity to share this piece with New York audiences and to discover new facets of the work through collaborating with this remarkable company of artists."
Stoll was Tony-nominated in 2024 for Appropriate, and most recently appeared Off-Broadway opposite Cecily Strong in What Happened Was at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Urie, a two-time Emmy nominee for Shrinking, comes to the production from Oh, Mary!, which he played on Broadway and then in its West End transfer. Further casting is still to be announced.
The Broadway staging is produced by Seaview, MarketStall and Mass Productions with Pam Hurst-Della Pietra and Stephen Della Pietra. Scott Pask is the production designer, with lighting by Heather Gilbert, sound by Cody Spencer, projections by Hana S. Kim and Yana Biryukova, and original music by Daniel McAuley, who also scored the play's first run. Casting is by Taylor Williams, CSA.
Tickets went on sale at 5pm on November 11 through Telecharge, the production's official primary seller, online and by phone at 212-239-6200. The Booth Theatre box office opens on Monday, March 8, 2027. Updates are posted on the production's official website.
