Hollywood mega-star Julia Roberts will make her Broadway debut this coming spring in a revival of Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain. The production, directed by Joe Mantello, is expected to run 12 weeks starting in March at a Shubert theater to be announced, according to The New York Times.
Roberts is one of the biggest movie stars in the world. She took home a 2001 Academy Award for her performance in the title role of Erin Brockovich. She had previously been nominated for Oscar gold for Steel Magnolias and Pretty Woman. Her other film credits include Satisfaction, Mystic Pizza, Dying Young, Hook, The Pelican Brief, Something to Talk About, Mary Reilly, Stepmom, My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill, Runaway Bride, The Mexican, America's Sweethearts, Ocean's Eleven, Full Frontal, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Mona Lisa Smile, Closer and Ocean's Twelve.
Set in New York, Three Days of Rain centers on a brother, his sister Roberts and their childhood friend who meet to settle their parents' estate. The two fathers were long-time friends and partners in architecture; their legacy is the brilliantly daring creation, the 1960's Janeway House. But whose was the guiding hand? In this tense and brittle reunion, much more is at stake than who gets the house. Brother and sister discover their father's bland, sparse diary, and use it to create a story for themselves that will explain away the present and make sense of their parent's passionless marriage. Over the 'three days of rain' entered in the young architect's diary, the same three actors then play their own parents and reveal a romantic significance and creative dilemma that none of these children could ever have imagined.
Three Days of Rain ran off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club from November 12, 1997 to January 4, 1998 with Patricia Clarkson, John Slattery and Bradley Whitford.
