Afternoon dog dayThe new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis based on the 1975 classic film and with Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, will start the Broadway previews on Tuesday March 10, 2026, and officially opens on Sunday March 30 at the August Wilson Theatre.
The dates and places of strictly limited engagement have been announced today by producers Warner Bros. Theater Ventures (Executive Vice-President and Managing Director Mark Kaufman), Sue Wagner, John Johnson and Patrick Catullo.
The additional cast and the complete creative team will be announced soon.
Directed by the double winner of the Olivier Rupert Goold Prize (King Charles III),, Afternoon dog day Will mark the beginnings of Bernthal Broadway (The bear, the dead-1), who will play Sonny Amato, and the double winner of the Emmy Emmy Moss-Bachrach Prize (The Fantastic Four: First steps, the bear), which will represent Sal Desilva.
In the film Oscar in 1975, winner of Sidney Lumet, Al Pacino played Sonny and John Cazale played Sal.
The synopsis: Back in the suffocating summer of 1972, in New York – once the Vietnam War is looming, the titles of Watergate flood the news, and the desperate act of a man captivates the nation. A Brooklyn bank quickly woven badly, and with each heartbreaking turn that takes place, the chaos follows which ignites the city as they follow the actions of a man at the limit.
The playwright Guirgis won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for the drama for its Between riverside and crazy.
The 1975 film directed by Lumet was written by Frank Pierson on the basis of the article in Life magazine “The Boys in the Bank” by PF Kluge and Thomas Moore. The magazine Feature Chronicles Chronicles The 1972 Rabbery and Orlegen Situation led by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Natule in a chase Manhattan branch in Brooklyn. Produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand, the film also played James Broderick, Charles Durning and Chris Sarandon as a boyfriend of Sonny who needs Sonny’s money for surgery affirmed by the sexes.
