The recent West End revival of David Hare's Skylight starring Carey Mulligan as Kyra and Bill Nighy as Tom will pull up stakes and head to New York for a limited Broadway engagement next spring.
Tony Award winner and Oscar nominee Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, "The Reader") directs this drama about the potential reigniting of the relationship between an older man and a younger woman. Nighy and Mulligan are both BAFTA winners. Mulligan is best known to moviegoers for "The Great Gatsby" and "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Matthew Beard co-stars as Tom's son Edward. All three actors will reprise their roles in New York.
When Skylight premiered in 1995 starring Michael Gambon as Tom and directed by Richard Eyre, it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. Nighy ("Love Actually") played the role of Tom in a London production the following year.
In his five-star review in the Guardian of the "beautifully acted" revival, Michael Billington wrote, "Some plays dissolve with time. David Hare's Skylight actually seems to have got richer since its premiere in 1995… Hare's observation of opposing values is even more pertinent in a society based on grotesque inequality."
The West End revival closed August 23. On July 17 it was broadcast live to hundreds of movie theaters in the UK, with international screenings scheduled starting October 23. As far as I can determine, this will be the first major New York production of Skylight. The 13-week limited engagement is scheduled to begin previews at Broadway's Golden Theatre on March 16, 2015 and officially open April 2.
