Tickets are now available for the Broadway return of John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation. The revival, starring Allison Janney, John Benjamin Hickey and Corey Hawkins, will begin performances on April 5, 2017 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, where it is set to open officially on April 25 and run through July 16.
The play, inspired by a true story, tell the story of Ouisa and Flan Kittredge (Janney and Hickey), a wealthy New York couple who take in Paul (Hawkins), a young man who cons them into believing he’s a friend of their son at Harvard and the son of Sidney Poitier. After they discover his lies, Ouisa and Flan piece together his true identity and their connection to him, as well as the similar encounters their upper class friends have had with Paul.
Guare’s drama-comedy premiered off-Broadway in 1990 and transferred to the Great White Way later that year. Stockard Channing, who received a Tony nomination for her performance as Ouisa, reprised her role for the film adaptation, earning an Oscar nod.
Additional casting for the Trip Cullman-helmed production will be announced at a later date.