New Beginning & Opening Dates Set for The Gin Game Starring James Earl Jones & Cicely Tyson

The Broadway revival of D.L. Coburn’s The Gin Game has pushed back its start date and opening night. The production, starring James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson, will now begin on September 23 at the Golden Theatre, instead of the previously scheduled September 18. Opening night has been moved one day to October 14.

The scheduling change allows Tyson to attend the Emmy Awards on September 20 in Los Angeles. She is nominated this year for her guest performance in How to Get Away with Murder.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows Weller Martin (Jones) and Fonsia Dorsey (Tyson), who meet on the porch of their nursing home and strike up a friendship as Weller teaches Fonsia how to play gin rummy. As they play, they share stories about the lives they led in the outside world. But when Fonsia wins every hand, Weller becomes increasingly frustrated. Soon, their gin games and conversations become a battleground, with each player exposing the other’s failures, disappointments and insecurities.

The production, directed by Leonard Foglia, will play a limited engagement through January 10, 2016.