Meryl Streep Hopes to Return to Broadway
Actress stars in new film based on award-winning play.
Meryl Streep starred in the film version of the smash Broadway musical, Mamma Mia!, this summer. The movie, based on the songs of ABBA, was a box office success. Streep is also starring this winter in Doubt, the film version of the Tony-winning play. With all these Broadway films under her belt, would she like to go back to the "real" Broadway?
Streep would very much like to, as she told Broadway.com. "I have one more [child] to shovel out of the house," the Oscar winner jokingly said, "When she graduates, maybe I can do that."
Her most recent stage work was in 2007, when she starred in Mother Courage and Her Children at the Public Theater in New York City. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play. Streep made her Broadway debut in 1975, with Trelawny of the Wells. She got a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress when she starred in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.
Her daughters are also experienced stage actresses. Mamie Gummer won a Theatre World Award in 2006 for her performance in Mr. Marmalade and was recently seen in the revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Grace Gummer appeared in The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents in November, making her stage debut. Streep has two other children, Henry, 29, and Louisa, 17, with her husband, Don Gummer.
Doubt will arrive in theaters on December 12.
