Anthony Dixon/WENN.com Shia LaBeouf.Shia LaBeouf is better known for performing high intensity heroics (the “Transformers†movies, the last Indiana Jones picture) than limning cold fury, but his new career move will give him a chance to play a bad boy â€" a very bad boy.
Mr. LaBeouf, 26, will make his Broadway debut this spring opposite Alec Baldwin in “Orphans,†Lyle Kessler's 1983 drama about two troubled brothers who kidnap a mobster. Mr. LaBeouf, whose recent movies include “Lawless†and “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,†will play Treat, a petty thief who wields strong control over his younger brother Phillip in their dilapidated Philadelphia row house. Casting for the role of Phillip will be announced later; Mr. Baldwin will play the mobster Harold, a man with surprising emotional layers.
A critically acclaimed Off Broadway production in 1985 starred Terry Kinney as Treat, Kevin Anderson as Phillip, and John Mahoney as Harold.
The production is to begin preview performances on March 19 at the Schoenfeld Theater, and will officially open on April 7. It will be directed by the Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan, whose latest Broadway outing, a revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross,†is running at the Schoenfeld.
