Chris Rock Set For X-Rated Broadway Debut
First Published: October 22, 2010 2:38 PM EDT Credit: Getty Images
Caption Chris Rock accepts the Oustanding Documentary award onstage during the 41st NAACP Image Awards, Los Angeles, February 26, 2010NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Comedian Chris Rock will make his Broadway debut in a new play about love and fidelity with an X-rated title.
Rock will join Bobby Cannavale, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Annabella Sciorra and Yul Vazquez in a production of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play “The Mother … With the Hat.” (The title includes an expletive.)
The 14-week engagement beginspreviews on March 22 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
The play centers on Jackie (Cannavale), a parolee who is newly sober, and his girlfriend, who is not. Rock will play Jackie’s sponsor.
Anna D. Shapiro, who won a Tony for directing “August: Osage County,” will helm the project.
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