Lee Pace joins the cast of the Broadway revival of Angels in America

The Emmy & Golden Globe-nominated star of Pushing Daisies will take on the role of Joe Pitt on Broadway.

Golden Globe & Emmy Award nominee Lee Pace has been cast to play the role of Joe Pitt in the upcoming Broadway revival of Tony Kushner's epic drama Angels in America, which will play a strictly limited 18-week engagement at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Marianne Elliott, previews begin on February 23, 2018, with an official opening now set for March 25 (instead of the previously announced March 21 date), with the limited run closing on July 1, 2018.

Lee Pace previously made his Broadway debut in The Normal Heart in 2011, whilst his off-Broadway credits include The Credeaux Canvas, The Fourth Sister, Small Tragedy, Guardians and Golden Age. He earned both a Golden Globe and Emmy Award nomination in 2008 for his TV role as Ned on "Pushing Daisies" and received his first Golden Globe nomination for "Soldier's Girl" in 2004. His other major screen credits include Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy", "Halt and Catch Fire", "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2", "Lincoln", "The Good Shepherd", and "The Hobbit" film trilogy.

Producers Tim Levy and Jordan Roth released the following joint statement: "Lee Pace is one of the finest actors of his generation. We are thrilled to welcome him to the Broadway production and to our company of extraordinary artists."

Mr. Pace joins previously announced cast members two-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane (as Roy Cohn), Oscar and Tony Award nominee Andrew Garfield (as Prior Walter), Olivier Award winner Denise Gough (as Harper Pitt), James McArdle(as Louis Ironson), Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (as Belize), Susan Brown (as Hannah Pitt) and Amanda Lawrence (as The Angel).

Synopsis: "A quarter-century after stunning the theater world, one of the greatest theatrical journeys of our time returns to Broadway in an acclaimed new production from the National Theatre. As politically incendiary as any play in the American canon, Angels in America also manages to be, at turns, hilariously irreverent and heartbreakingly humane. It is also astonishingly relevant, speaking every bit as urgently to our anxious times as it did when it first premiered. Tackling Reaganism, McCarthyism, immigration, religion, climate change, and AIDS against the backdrop of New York City in the mid-1980's, no contemporary drama has succeeded so indisputably with so ambitious a scope."

The creative team behind Angels in America features music by Adrian Sutton, scenic design by Tony winner Ian MacNeil, costume design by Tony nominee Nicky Gillibrand, lighting design by Tony winner Paule Constable, sound design by Tony nominee Ian Dickinson, puppetry design by Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell, puppetry direction and movement by Finn Caldwell, movement by Robby Graham, and illusions by Chris Fisher.

Angels in America is produced on Broadway by Tim Levy, Jordan Roth and Elliott & Harper.

This new production of Angels in America, once again told in two parts - Part One - Millennium Approaches and Part Two - Perestroika - premiered at London's National Theatre in April of this year and quickly became the fasting selling show in the company's history. It originally premiered on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in 1993, winning the Tony Award for "Best Play" and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The 2003 television adaptation also won the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for "Best Miniseries." This production will mark the play's first-ever Broadway revival.