Cory Michael Smith to Star in \'Breakfast at Tiffany\'s\'

Jason Bell Emilia Clarke as Holly Golightly.

With two well-regarded performances Off Broadway this year, in “The Whale” and “____ (The Cockfight Play),” the young actor Cory Michael Smith has landed a new role on a much bigger stage. He will play Fred, the narrator and Southern writer in the Broadway production of “Truman Capote's ‘B reakfast at Tiffany's,'” which is to begin preview performances on March 4 at the Cort Theater and officially open on March 20.

Mr. Smith will star opposite Emilia Clarke (“Game of Thrones”), who is playing the New York society girl Holly Golightly, a role made famous by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film. The play is by Tony Award winner Richard Greenberg (“Take Me Out”), who based it on Capote's original novella set in New York City in 1943.

While the film version's main male character, played by George Peppard, became a love interest for Hepburn's Holly, the play hews more closely to the novella and its portrayal of Fred as a young gay man. Mr. Smith currently plays a Mormon missionary in the Playwrights Horizons production of “The Whale,” after his five-month run as the sexually conflicted central character John in “____ (The Cockfight Play).” “Breakfast at Tiffany's” will be directed by Sean Mathias.