Bradley Cooper & Sienna Miller Eye Return to Broadway in The Philadelphia Story

After playing hubby and wife in American Sniper and amorous chefs in Burnt on screen, it looks like Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller will be bringing their chemistry to the boards. According to Showbiz 411, the pair will return to Broadway this fall or in the spring of 2017 for a Roundabout production of The Philadelphia Story. The pair recently took part in an industry reading of Philip Barry’s play.

Cooper won a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for his Main Stem debut in Three Days of Rain; he received a Tony nomination for his 2015 return in The Elephant Man. Miller has appeared on Broadway in Roundabout’s After Miss Julie and Cabaret.

The Philadelphia Story is a romantic comedy set in high society Philadelphia in the 1930s. Tracy Lord, an overly dramatic socialite, finds her wedding plans thrown into disarray by the arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist.

The play premiered on Broadway in 1939 at the Shubert Theatre. A popular film adaptation starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart was released in 1940. The story also serves as the basis for the Tony-nominated 1998 musical High Society. A 1980 Broadway revival presented by Lincoln Center starred Blythe Danner, Frank Converse and Edward Herrmann. Alex Timbers was rumored to be directing a revival of the play for Roundabout back in 2013, however it never came to fruition.