Jessica Chastain Returning To Broadway In New Play ‘Lost Lear’; Corey Stoll, Michael Urie Costar

Oscar winner and Tony nominee Jessica Chastain will return to Broadway this spring for a limited engagement in a new play by Dan Colley titled Lost Lear, with Corey Stoll and Michael Urie costarring.

Lost Lear will begin the 16-week run at the Booth Theatre on Monday, March 29, 2027 with an opening night set for Friday, April 23, 2027.

The production was announced today by producers Seaview, MarketStall and Mass Productions with Pam Hurst-Della Pietra & Stephen Della Pietra.

The play – Colley’s first on Broadway – will be directed by the playwright. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.

Chastain, who last appeared on Broadway in the record-breaking A Doll’s House revival, will play Joy, a former actress who, according to the synopsis, begins to lose her grip on the present and “is certain she’s back in rehearsal for King Lear.”

“At her care home,” the synopsis continues, “her nurse (Urie) takes his cues from her, stepping into whatever role she needs him to play. When her estranged son Conor (Stoll) comes to visit, he’s ready to tell his mother what he’s spent years leaving unsaid. But if he wants her to hear him, he’ll have to step into the scene.”

In a statement, the playwright and director said, “I never imagined, when we first made Lost Lear, that it would one day be on Broadway – and I’ve imagined some pretty wild things. I’m so thrilled to have the opportunity to share this piece with New York audiences and to discover new facets of the work through collaborating with this remarkable company of artists.”

Lost Lear won the Scotsman Fringe First award at Edinburgh 2025, where it was presented at Traverse Theatre. Premiering at Dublin Theatre Festival in 2022, it has since toured to the US, UK and New Zealand.

The design team for Lost Lear includes Scott Pask (production design), Heather Gilbert (lighting design), Cody Spencer (sound design), Hana S. Kim and Yana Biryukova (projection design), and Daniel McAuley (original music).

Chastain won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Eyes of Tammy Faye, following nominations for The Help and Zero Dark Thirty. Most recently seen in Universal Pictures’ Other Mommy, Chastain will next star in Netflix’s Heartland, directed by Shana Feste, and the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series Off Weeks opposite Ben Stiller. She’s currently in production in the Netflix drama series The Retrievals, alongside Emilia Jones and Amy Ryan.

Stoll received a 2024 Tony Award nomination for his performance opposite Sarah Paulson in Brandon Jacob-Jenkins’s Appropriate. Other stage credits include Macbeth, Othello, Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel and What Happened Was. TV and film credits include House of Cards, Billions, the Ant-Man films and This Is Where I Leave You, among others. He can currently be seen in the Apple limited series Imperfect Women and recently completed filming the independent series Recap. He’s currently shooting an untitled Monsterverse series for Apple, as well as Dan Brown’s The Secret of Secrets for Netflix.

Urie most recently starred in the comedy Oh, Mary! on Broadway and the West End (a pro-shot will air on HBO in 2027), and other Broadway credits include Once Upon a Mattress, Spamalot, Chicken & Biscuits, Grand Horizons, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the Tony-nominated revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song. Off Broadway, he played in Richard II, Buyer & Cellar and many other productions. On television, he stars as Brian in Apple TV+’s Shrinking, and first rose to prominence as Marc St. James on ABC’s Ugly Betty.