Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber lead Broadway ‘Doubt’ Revival

Tyne Daly and Liev Schreiber star in a Broadway revival of “Doubt: A Parable” this season.

The play, by John Patrick Shanley, is about a nun who suspects that a priest has sexually assaulted a student at a Catholic school. In 2005, the year it first opened on Broadway, it won both the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Game; it was later adapted into a movie and an opera.

The new production is produced by the Theater company Rotonde, and will be directed by Scott Ellis, who has served as the nonprofit’s interim artistic director since the death of artistic director Todd Haimes in April. (All Broadway theaters plan to dim their marquee lights for one minute at 6:45 p.m. tonight in memory of Haimes.)

Daly, who will play the nun who serves as the school principal, and Schreiber, who will play the pastor, are both Tony winners. Daly, known to television viewers for ‘Cagney & Lacey’, won a Tony Award in 1990 for her leading role in a revival of ‘Gypsy’. Schreiber, the star of Showtime’s “Ray Donovan,” won a Tony Award in 2005 for a revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross.”

Production begins in February with performances at the American Airlines Theater.

“Doubt” will be one of three plays staged by Roundabout on Broadway this season. The others are “I Need That,” a new play written by Theresa Rebeck and starring Danny DeVito alongside his daughter Lucy, and “Home,” a revival directed by Kenny Leon of a 1979 play by Samm-Art Williams.

“Doubt” won’t be Shanley’s only play on the New York stage this season. The Manhattan Theater Club, the nonprofit that staged the original production of “Doubt,” plans to present a new Shanley play, “Brooklyn Laundry,” Off Broadway this winter.