The production, scheduled to open in the spring of 2025, will mark the Broadway debut of Odenkirk and Burr. On Thursday, August 8, executive producers Jeffrey Richards and Rebecca Gold announced another remake of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Glengarry Glen Ross, this time starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr.
Culkin, 41, who just finished his Emmy-winning career in Succession, has been on the stage before, but this production will mark the Broadway debuts of Odenkirk, 61, and Burr, 56.
It will be directed by Tony Award winner Patrick Marber, who said in a statement that the play “blew my young soul” when he saw its original 1983 production in London at just 19 years old.
“That was one of the reasons I wanted to work in theater,” Marber said. “Forty years later, I am excited to direct it on Broadway with this incredible cast. I will do everything I can to ensure that this great American drama brings audiences the same great pleasures that it brought me.”
Additional information, including additional cast, location and specific performance dates, will be announced at a later date. The production is scheduled to open in the spring of 2025. Glengarry Glen Ross follows two days in “a dodgy real estate agency in Chicago, where four salesmen compete to sell the most worthless properties to unsuspecting clients,” according to a official synopsis. “Whoever sells the most wins a car, whoever sells the least loses their job – a gritty environment where every character will do anything to come out on top.”
The play premiered at the National Theater in London before opening on Broadway in March 1984. It stars Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Robert Prosky, Lane Smith, James Tolkan, Jack Wallace and J. T. Walsh, the production was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Play. A film adaptation was released in 1992, with Mamet writing the screenplay and James Foley directing. The cast included a list of superstars of the era, including Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin (in a role created for the film), Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey and Jonathan Pryce.