Denzel Washington returns to Broadway in 'Fences' by August Wilson

November 11, 9:09 AMLiterature ExaminerConnie Ann Kirk

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Denzel Washington returns to Broadway in 'Fences' by August Wilson.
(AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski,File)

Denzel Washington returns to Broadway in Fences by August Wilson in 2010, according to Variety. Rehearsals begin in February for a 14-week run from April through mid-July.

This will mark Mr. Washington's second stint on the Great White Way; he played Brutus in Julius Caesar in 2005. His run was considered financially successful for producers; Caesar grossed $8.5 million over 14 weeks.

Other Hollywood movie stars appearing currently on Broadway include Jude Law in Hamlet and Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman in A Steady Rain. Since movie actors are more readily recognizable to the general public, Broadway often features them in productions to help fill seats in the theater, especially in a time of economic downturn.  Young movie starlet, Abigail Breslin, will also come to Broadway in 2010 to play Helen Keller in a remake of The Miracle Worker.  The reason she, and not a visually or hearing impaired actor, was chosen for the role was exactly because Ms. Breslin is more known by potential audiences.

Fences, which won a Pulitzer Prize, is about a man in his early 50s, Troy Maxson.  Maxson once had aspirations to play professional baseball but has, due to the fences of racism and other factors, instead supported his family as a garbage collector.  As a result of this disappointment in his life, he has developed fences of his own that have made him emotionally distant from his family and troubled within himself.

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Abigail Breslin to play Helen Keller; 'Miracle Worker' returns to Broadway

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