Additional casting has been set for Dog Day Afternoon on Broadway, a new stage adaptation of the 1975 movie starting performances at the August Wilson Theatre on March 10. Opening night is March 30.
Joining the previously announced Jon Bernthal as Sonny Amato and Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Sal DeSilva, both Emmy winners for The Bear now making their Broadway debuts, are Drama Desk Award nominee John Ortiz (Jesus Hopped the A Train) as Detective Ferrara, three-time Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht (Eureka Day) as Colleen, and SAG Award nominee Spencer Garrett (Once Upon A Time in Hollywood) as Sheldon.
Based on true events, Dog Day Afternoon follows two would-be Brooklyn bank robbers whose attempt goes spectacularly wrong and escalates into chaos that grips the city. Rupert Goold directs the play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, adapting the story previously told in a 1972 article by P. F. Kluge and the 1975 film’s Oscar-winning screenplay by Frank Pierson.
The complete cast and creative team have yet to be announced.
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Photo credit: Jessica Hecht, John Ortiz, and Spencer Garrett. (Photos courtesy of production; Garrett photo by Mandred Baumann)