Tyne Daly to Star in New Terrence McNally Play on Broadway

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The Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Tyne Daly (“Gypsy”) will return to Broadway in the spring of 2014 to star in “Mothers and Sons,” a new play by the Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally (“Love! Valour! Compassion!”). Sheryl Kaller, who in June directed the show’s premiere at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa., will reprise her duties for Broadway. Additional casting, run dates and a theater are to be announced.

Ms. Daly will play a mother who, 20 years after her son’s death from AIDS, faces a clash of values and personalities when she travels from Texas to Manhattan to visit her son’s former lover, who is married to another man and has a young son. (In the Bucks County production Manoel Felciano played the role of the son and Bobby Steggert played his lover.) Ms. Daly will return to Broadway for the first time since playing the opera singer Maria Callas in the 2011 revival of Mr. McNally’s 1995 play “Master Class.”

“Mothers and Sons” has a history that dates back to the late ’80s. The characters in the Broadway-bound production are inspired by “Andre’s Mother,” a teleplay Mr. McNally wrote in 1990 that ran as part of the PBS series “American Playhouse.” That work was an expansion of a playlet staged as part of an anthology, called “Urban Blight,” at Manhattan Theater Club in 1988.