Rear Window: Terry Kinney will direct

The forthcoming Broadway production Rear Window will be adapted from Cornell Woolrich's original short story by playwright Keith Reddin ('Too Much Memory,' 'Life and Limb') and directed by Terry Kinney ('reasons to be pretty,' 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest').

A planned production timeline, casting, and further creative team members for Rear Window will be announced shortly.

Cornell Woolrich's short story tells the tale of a wheelchair-bound witness to a possible murder in his neighboring New York City apartment.

Producer Charlie Lyons said,

Since initiating this project, we've been totally committed to bringing something fresh to the story. To accomplish that, we've gone back to Cornell Woolrich's short story and brought onboard progressive, smart Theatre artists in Keith and Terry. We couldn't be more thrilled with what this team has brought to this project.

Rear Window is a remarkable story, with a classic film adaptation in Hitchcock's masterpiece. Keith and I hope to honor the amazing source material and create a true psychological thriller for the stage - one that combines theatrical storytelling with new technology to reveal our primal fears.

Rear Window was written in 1942 by Cornell Woolrich. With fans such as Ray Bradbury, who once proclaimed that Woolrich "deserves to be discovered and rediscovered by each generation." The story was adapted for the screen in the classic 1954 motion picture Rear Window, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.