The Seafarer To End Broadway Run A Month Early
The Seafarer, Conor McPherson’s latest play, has announced that it will end its run on the Broadway on March 30th. The play began performances on October 30th and has played 19 previews and 133 regular performances since its opening on December 6th, 2007. The play, starring Conleth Hill, Ciarán Hinds, David Morse, Jim Norton and Sean Mahon, is about two brothers, James and Richard Harkin, preparing for Christmas. James “Sharkey” Harkin an alcoholic, returns to live with his brother, Richard Harkin, who is blind and aging. The play takes its titles off of an old English poem which Conor McPherson came across when he was studying in University College Dublin.
The Seafarer opened to some impressive reviews including a resounding vote of confidence from NY Times saying that the play presented one of the finest ensembles to grace a Broadway stage in years but even this couldn’t save the show which will soon come to a somewhat disappointing end.
Replacing The Seafarer in the Booth Theatre will be Thurgood, billed as a one man show and starring Laurence Fishburne. It is the story of Thurgood Marshall who was raised up from a childhood in a backstreet of Baltimore to the Supreme Court of the United States.
