Cate Blanchett to finally make Broadway debut

Cate Blanchett, one of the best actresses in the business today, is about to finally make her Broadway debut. She will star in a production inspired by Anton Chekhov's first play Platonov.

The play is be called The Present and the new version will be set during the 1990s. Blanchett will star as a Moscow widow whose friends gather to celebrate her birthday. The Present was written by Blanchett’s husband, Andrew Upton.

“It’s about life, basically, and the choices that a group of people make,” director John Crowley told the New York Times. The Irish director’s film Brooklyn was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar and he has helmed three Broadway productions.

The dates for the production have not been set yet, but it will only run 13 weeks. Producers Stuart Thompson and the Sydney Theater Company are hoping to start later this year.

Although this is Blanchett’s Broadway debut, she has performed in New York before. She performed Off Broadway in 2014’s The Maids and a 2012 production of Uncle Vanya. She also performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in A Streetcar Named Desire in 2009 and Hedda Gabler in 2006.

Blanchett has won two Oscars and was nominated again for her performance in Carol.

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