{"id":20029,"date":"2025-10-28T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20029\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T16:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:45:07","slug":"tilda-swinton-will-reprise-80s-star-turn-in-man-to-man-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20029\/","title":{"rendered":"Tilda Swinton Will Reprise &#8217;80s Star Turn in Man to Man in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"eyebrow eyebrow-custom\" title=\"London News\" style=\"color:#030303;\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/category\/london-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTilda Swinton Will Reprise &#8217;80s Star Turn in Man to Man in New York<\/p>\n<p>The Manfred Karge play will come stateside after a run at London&#8217;s Royal Court Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tilda-Swinton.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Tilda Swinton<br \/>\n                                       Andrea Raffin\/Shutterstock                <\/p>\n<p>Tilda Swinton will bring her performance in Manfred Karge&#8217;s solo play\u00a0Man to Man to New York in spring 2027. The production, a revival of Swinton&#8217;s performance in the work in 1988, <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/kimberly-belflowers-john-proctor-is-the-villain-to-play-london-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was announced for London&#8217;s Royal Court Theatre earlier this morning<\/a>, a run that will precede the New York bow.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Unwin will direct the staging, which is using a translation by Anthony Vivis (from Karge&#8217;s German). <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/bunny-christie-vault-0000125124\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bunny Christie<\/a> (Company)\u00a0will design.<\/p>\n<p>The work follows a woman that, following the death of her husband, assumes his identity, fighting to stay alive against war, dictatorship, hunger, and humiliation. Swinton, who will make her first stage appearance in three decades with the production, starred in the work&#8217;s U.K. premiere in 1988, first at Edinburgh&#8217;s Traverse Theatre and later at the Royal Court in London.<\/p>\n<p>The revival will also play a run at Berliner Ensemble in Germany before crossing the pond.\u00a0NVK \/ <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/nate-koch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Koch<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/jenna-ready\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Ready<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/joanna-pisano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joanna Pisano<\/a> will serve as general managers for the New York run. Brian and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/dayna-lee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dayna Lee<\/a> of <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/af-creative-media\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AF Creative Media<\/a>\u00a0are producing, <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/londons-the-royal-court-pens-1st-look-deal-with-tony-winning-producers-brian-and-dayna-lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">part of the duo&#8217;s multi-year exclusive &#8220;first look&#8221; agreement with the Royal Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mantomanplay.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MantoManPlay.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London News Tilda Swinton Will Reprise &#8217;80s Star Turn in Man to Man in New York The Manfred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-20029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}