Anne Hathaway is heading back to the Broadway stage.
The 32-year-old "Les Miserables" star has signed on to do a one-woman show to be directed by Julie Taymor with the monologue by George Brant. The 70-minute show titled "Grounded" is expected to run from April 7 through May 17, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The New York's Public Theater announced Wednesday that Hathaway will play a fighter pilot whose pregnancy forces her out of the position. Her character is reassigned to operate drones from a trailer in Nevada and struggles to balance military life with family life.
"An ace fighter pilot reassigned to a remote-controlled drone faces 12-hour shifts hunting targets from her Air Force trailer followed by twelve in the suburbs with her family in this 'gripping' (New York Times) new play about the complicated consequences of waging war without leaving home," the Public Theater said in a description of the play.
Last year, actress Hannah Cabell starred in the play at Walkerspace in New York. "Grounded" won the 2012 Smith Prize for Political Theater and the Fringe First award at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival.
"Anne Hathaway and Julie Taymor are amazing, unique artists, and we are honored to produce them at The Public Theater," Artistic Director Oskar Eustis said about Hathaway. "'Grounded' is a brilliant and important play, a meditation on the human and moral costs of our astonishing military technology. This promises to be an unforgettable theatrical event, and an important addition to our national conversation."
