Crimes of the Heart, Beth Henley's comedy which premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville's 1979 Humana Festival of New American Plays and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981, will have a Broadway revival starting February 7 at Roundabout Theatre Company.
The limited-engagement New York production, under the direction of Kathleen Turner will run through April 13.
The Actors Theatre premiere was directed by the company's former longtime producing director, Jon Jory, and starred a young Kathy Bates, Lee Anne Fahey and Susan Kingsley. Veteran resident company actors Ray Fry and William McNulty were also a part of the cast.
A film version of Henley's comedy, released in 1986, starred Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard.
In 2003, Actors Theatre revived the play as part of its Brown-Forman Mainstage Series.
Crimes of the Heart is a sharply funny play about three sisters from a small Southern town who are reunited when the youngest of them is released on bail after shooting her husband. Together, they break from their equally painful pasts and look toward the future with new strength.
Crimes of the Heart joins D.L Coburn's The Gin Game (1978) and Donald Margulies' Dinner with Friends (2000) as Humana Festival plays that have won the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Produced each March, the Humana Festival, underwritten by The Humana Foundation, is a well-known breeding ground for new plays by emerging and established writers. During its 32-year history, over 300 plays have premiered in the festival. Over 225 of the festival plays are now published making them a part of the permanent cannon of American dramatic literature. The festival's annual audience of nearly 25,000 is comprised of local patrons as well as theatre lovers from across the nation and around the world.
The upcoming 2008 Humana Festival is slated through March 30. -- www.actorstheatre.org
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