'The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window'—Lorraine Hansberry’s second play produced for the New York stage—is returning to Broadway tonight for the first time in nearly 60 years.
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater this February, led by Oscar Isaac as Sidney and Rachel Brosnahan as Iris.Isaac wears a suit from Early Halloween. Stetson fedora. Brosnahan wears a coat by Coach.
For director Anne Kauffman, who helmed the show in Chicago, mounting a revival in New York has been a dream long deferred. “It’s been probably about 15 years,” she says. What appeals to her most about the work is its“It’s not necessarily finished, and I love that about it.” Compared to the tightly plotted action ofsprawls, weaving art, race, religion, idealism, and bitter disenchantment into its vast web. “I think she was trying something really big.
“It just feels alive, and it feels messy,” says director Anne Kauffman. “Life’s just not neat anymore”in New York when he suggested Oscar Isaac—who is not Jewish, butonce play Hamlet at the Public Theater—for the lead role. “He’s without question one of the most exciting actors working right now,” Brosnahan says. “It feels like he’s constantly searching for ways to surprise himself and surprise his audiences at the same time.
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