Actress Cate Blanchett will make her Broadway debut in 2016 in "The Present," an adaptation of Anton Chekov's first play "Platanov," which will have a limited run in early winter.
Blanchett and co-star Richard Roxburgh, together with an all-Australian cast, played the Sydney Theatre Company production at a sell-out run Australia in August 2015, Entertainment Weekly reported.
"The Present," which was written by Blanchett's husband Andrew Upton and directed by John Crowley, follows the tale of widow Anna Petrovna (Blanchett), who is celebrating her birthday with friends at an old country house set in post-Perestroika Russia in the mid-1990s.
One of the guests at the house is the acerbic and witty Platonov (Roxburgh), whose presence unravels regrets, foiled desires and relationships that were incomplete and unsettled, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Blanchett, a Broadway newbie, had already appeared in previous Sydney Theatre Company productions, namely "Uncle Vanya," "Hedda Gabler," "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Maids" in New York, the New York Daily News reported.
