According to Playbill, Jessica Chastain will return to Broadway in *Lost Lear*, a new play written and directed by Dan Colley, beginning performances at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2027 with opening night set for April 23.

The Hollywood Reporter, via Yahoo News UK, reports the same dates and adds that Colley is making his Broadway debut in both roles. Chastain, a two-time Tony nominee, last appeared on the Main Stem in the 2023 revival of *A Doll's House*, and her earlier Broadway credit was *The Heiress* in 2012.

Corey Stoll will play Conor and Michael Urie will play Liam.

The remarkable wrinkle, as both Playbill and The Hollywood Reporter note, is that Chastain is announced to play King Lear — kind of. *Lost Lear* centers on Joy, a former actor whose dementia has convinced her she is in rehearsals for Shakespeare's Lear, with nurse Liam happily playing the supporting roles whenever needed.

When her estranged son Conor arrives hoping to unburden himself, he learns he must step into the drama too. A quiet, form-bending dementia play taking over the Booth Theatre is a genuinely unexpected booking, and Colley says he never imagined the piece would reach Broadway.

The play's route to the Main Stem is long and evidence of real momentum. Playbill reports it debuted in Dublin in 2022 and later earned a Scotsman Fringe First Award at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with tours of the U.S., U.K. and New Zealand along the way.

Stoll, a Tony nominee for the 2024 revival of *Appropriate*, has Broadway credits including *A View From the Bridge* and *Henry IV*, while Urie's recent run spans *Oh, Mary!*, *Once Upon a Mattress* and *Spamalot*.

The creative team includes production design by Scott Pask and music by Daniel McAuley.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Chastain teased the return on the Today show last week while promoting her new Netflix film *Heartland*.

According to Sweety High, that Nashville-set mystery thriller — written and directed by Shana Feste, with Chastain as retired country superstar Misty Jones who does her own singing — streams on Netflix starting Friday, Nov. 13.

For film watchers, the stakes are that Chastain is stacking a country-music thriller and a demonic matriarch turn in *Other Mommy* against a return to the stage where her Tony nominations were earned.

Tickets are on sale now via Telecharge, Playbill reports, with Seaview, MarketStall and Mass Productions producing alongside Pam Hurst-Della Pietra and Stephen Della Pietra.

Yahoo News UK notes that additional casting will be announced at a later date, so the supporting company around Chastain, Stoll and Urie could still grow before rehearsals.

For New York audiences, the April 23 opening gives the spring season an unusual anchor: an award-honored Dublin import rather than a star vehicle built for Broadway. Colley's statement, shared by both outlets, promises to discover new facets of the work with this company of artists.