Acting Is Not About Being Someone Different
“Marvin’s Room,” a comic play about a dying woman caring for a dying man, will be staged on Broadway for the first time next summer, more than a quarter-century after it was written.
The play, in which a woman with leukemia reaches out to an estranged sister in hopes of finding a bone marrow donor, ran Off Broadway in 1991, at Playwrights Horizons, and was adapted into a film in 1996, starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton and Leonardo DiCaprio.
“Marvin’s Room” was written by Scott W. McPherson, who died from AIDS in 1992 at the age of 33. The production will be directed by Anne Kauffman, in her Broadway debut.
