Jessica Chastain, Corey Stoll, Michael Urie to star in new play ‘Lost Lear’ on Broadway this spring

Oscar winner and Tony Award nominee Chastain returns to the stage to take on a reimagined version of one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated characters.

Summary

• Tony nominee and Oscar winner Jessica Chastain will star in Lost Lear on Broadway at the Booth Theatre for 16 weeks starting March 29, 2027
• Lost Lear reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as an actress with dementia
• Corey Stoll and Michael Urie will play supporting roles
• Dan Colley wrote and directs the play

Jessica Chastain will return to Broadway this spring in Lost Lear, a new play written and directed by Dan Colley. Performances will run for 16 weeks only at the Booth Theatre starting March 29 ahead of an April 23 opening.

Chastain returns to Broadway following her Tony Award-nominated and Drama Desk-winning performance as Nora Helmer in A Doll’s House, directed by Jamie Lloyd, in 2023. She previously made her Broadway debut in The Heiress in 2012. She won the Oscar for her performance as Tammy Faye Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and other film credits include Scenes From A Marriage, Molly's Game, Zero Dark Thirty, and Interstellar.

Lost Lear reimagines the title character of Shakespeare’s King Lear — an aging ruler who descends into madness — as an actress, Joy (Chastain), suffering from dementia and reliving old memories of rehearsing King Lear. Starring opposite Chastain are Tony and Golden Globe nominee Corey Stoll (Appropriate, House of Cards) as Conor, her estranged son who comes to confront his mother, and three-time Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie (Shrinking, Ugly Betty) as Liam, Joy's caretaker who indulges her delusions.

“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,” Colley said in a statement. “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.”

Colley’s show premiered in 2022 and has had multiple productions across Ireland, the U.K., and more, winning the Scotsman Fringe First Award 2025 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and earning nominations for multiple Irish Times Theatre Awards.

Additional cast members for Lost Lear on Broadway have yet to be announced. The creative team includes production designer Scott Pask, lighting designer Heather Gilbert, sound designer Cody Spencer, projection designers Hana S. Kim and Yana Biryukova, composer Daniel McAuley, and production stage manager Rachel Bauder.

Check back for information on Lost Lear tickets on New York Theatre Guide.