After premiering at Manhattan Theater Club, Doubt opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre on March 31, 2005. Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx, it centers on a nun who grows suspicious when a priest begins taking too much interest in the life of a young black student. Is she being overly protective or not protective enough? And can she work within the system to discover the truth? Doug Hughes directed the Broadway production of Doubt, which closed on July 2, 2006 after 525 performances.
The Broadway production of Doubt featured Cherry Jones who won a Tony Award playing Sister Aloysius and is currently headlining the national tour of the show, Brían F. O'Byrne, Heather Goldenhersh and Adriane Lenox who also won a Tony as the mother of the student-in-question. Eileen Atkins, Ron Eldard and Jena Malone joined Lenox in the Broadway production for the final six months of the run. No casting has been announced for the film.
Doubt is expected to arrive in movie theaters in 2008.