Legend Meryl Streep Hints at Return to Broadway

Academy Award winner Meryl Streep gave Broadway.com a hint as to when she may make her long-awaited return to the Rialto during a recent sit-down interview for the upcoming film Doubt, the big-screen adaptation of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize awarding winning play. The film is the actress’s second celluloid adaptation of a Broadway play this year, following the summer’s wildly successful release of Mamma Mia!

“I’ve got one more [child] to shovel out of the house,” Streep laughed when asked about finally heading back to Broadway. “When she graduates, maybe I can do that.”

The actress’s offspring have left their own mark on the New York stage in recent years. Daughter Mamie Gummer was most recently seen on the Great White Way in last season’s Roundabout revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, following an appearance in 2007’s The 24 Hour Plays. The actress has also appeared off-Broadway in Hunting and Gathering and The Water’s Edge, and won a 2006 Theatre World Award for her performance in Mr. Marmalade. Streep’s younger daughter, Grace Gummer, also recently took the spotlight, making her stage debut in The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents at the East Village’s Wild Project early this November. Youngest daughter Louisa, her fourth child with husband Don Gummer, turned 17 in June.

Streep made her Broadway debut in 1975’s Trelawny of the Wells, following with A Memory of Two Mondays, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton which garnered her a Best Featured Actress Tony Award nomination, Secret Service and The Cherry Orchard. Her last Rialto performance was in the 1977 musical Happy End. Streep’s most recent New York stage turn was in 2007’s Mother Courage and Her Children at the Public Theater, which earned her a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Play.

Doubt hits theaters nationwide on December 12.