Broadway’s ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ With Jon Bernthal & Ebon Moss-Bachrach Sets Opening Date, Venue
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Dog Day Afternoon, thenew Stephen Adly Guirgis play based on the classic 1975 movie and starringJon Bernthal andEbon Moss-Bachrach, will beginBroadway previews on Tuesday, March 10, 2026, and officially open Monday, March 30, at the August Wilson Theatre.
The dates and venue for the strictly limited engagement were announced today by producers Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures (Executive Vice President & Managing Director Mark Kaufman), Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and Patrick Catullo.
Additional casting and the complete creative team will be announced soon.
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Directed by two-time Olivier Award winner Rupert Goold (King Charles III),Dog Day Afternoonwill mark the Broadway debuts of Bernthal (The Bear, The Walking Dead), who will play Sonny Amato, and two-time Emmy Award winner Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Bear), who will portray Sal DeSilva.
In Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-winning 1975 motion picture, Al Pacino played Sonny and John Cazale played Sal.
The synopsis: Step back into the sweltering summer of 1972, New York City—a time when the Vietnam War looms large, Watergate headlines flood the news, and one man’s desperate act captivates the nation. A Brooklyn bank hold up quickly goes wrong, and with each gut-wrenching twist that unfolds, chaos ensues that ignites the city as they follow the actions of a man on the edge.
Playwright Guirgis won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for hisBetween Riverside and Crazy.
The 1975 film directed by Lumet was written by Frank Pierson based on the Life magazine article “The Boys in the Bank” by P. F. Kluge and Thomas Moore. The magazine feature chronicles the 1972 robbery and hostage situation led by John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile at a Chase Manhattan branch in Brooklyn. Produced by Martin Bregman and Martin Elfand, the film also starred James Broderick, Charles Durning and Chris Sarandon as Sonny’s boyfriend who needs Sonny’s money for gender-affirming surgery.
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4 Comments
- Anonymous
Stop putting screen actors on stage, they always suck. Even Keanu Reeves couldn’t make Godot interesting.
- Anonymous
You obviously didn’t see Glengary Glenn Ross last season. The screen actors and a standup absolutely killed.
- Kat
Omg I would give my left arm to see this!!! Absolutely amazing actors in the lead
- AP
Looking forward to seeing it. If I can afford the prices.
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