Producer Scott Rudin, Once Banished, Now Contrite, Plans A Big Broadway Comeback
deadline.comBroadway and film producer Scott Rudin, whose aggressive and bullying behavior to some of his staff led to public condemnation and his withdrawal from producing four years ago, is making a comeback, which Rudin announces today in an interview with The New York Times.
In the article, Rudin says he has more than a dozen shows in development, including both musicals and plays. At least three of the latter, according to the Times, will star Laurie Metcalf and be directed by Joe Mantello. (Neither of them responded to Times’ requests for comment.) This fall, he will produce Little Bear Ridge Road, a play by Samuel D.
Hunter staged last year by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company. The New York production, like the one in Chicago, will star Metcalf and will be directed by Mantello.
In the spring Rudin will produce Montauk, a new play by David Hare, also starring Metcalf and directed by Mantello. The following season will bring a revival of Death of a Salesman with Metcalf and Nathan Lane, directed by Mantello. “I think Laurie is the greatest actress in America,” Rudin tells The Times. “I do.
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