Michael Wilson (The Trip to Bountiful), who also directed Jones in the 2012 Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, will helm the production.
The Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman comedy premiered on Broadway in 1936. Jones (Driving Miss Daisy, Fences, The Great White Hope) would play grandfather Martin Vanderhof.
The family comedy has been revived on Broadway four times. Its last Main Stem outing was a 1983 production at the Plymouth Theatre that starred Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards, Jr.
PHOTO ARCHIVE: Celebrating James Earl Jones Onstage
Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones in Jean Genet's The Blacks, at St, Mark's Playhouse in 1961.
James Earl Jones and Julienne Marie in Othello at Shakespeare in the Park, 1964
James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope at Arena Stage, 1967
James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope on Broadway, 1968
James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope on Broadway, 1968
James Earl Jones and Kevin Conway in Of Mice and Men on Broadway, 1974
Martha Swope
Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones in the film version of the play "The River Niger", in 1976.
Harris Yulin and James Earl Jones in A Lesson From Aloes on Broadway, 1980
Harris Yulin and James Earl Jones in A Lesson From Aloes on Broadway, 1980
James Earl Jones, Maria Tucci and Harris Yulin in A Lesson From Aloes on Broadway, 1980
James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer in Othello on Broadway, 1982
James Earl Jones and Dianne Wiest in Othello on Broadway, 1982
James Earl Jones and Cecilia Hart in Othello on Broadway, 1982
James Earl Jones in Fences on Broadway, 1987
Peter Francis James and James Earl Jones in On Golden Pond on Broadway, 2005
James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams in On Golden Pond on Broadway, 2005
Scott Suchman
James Earl Jones in On Golden Pond on Broadway, 2005
Terrence Howard and James Earl Jones in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway, 2008
Joan Marcus
Terrence Howard and James Earl Jones in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway, 2008
James Earl Jones in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway, 2008
Phylicia Rashad and James Earl Jones in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on Broadway, 2008
Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones
Boyd Gaines and James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones in The Best Man on Broadway, 2012
James Earl Jones and John Larroquette in The Best Man on Broadway, 2012
Eric McCormack, Kerry Butler, Corey Brill and James Earl Jones in The Best Man on Broadway, 2012
Eric McCormack and James Earl Jones in The Best Man on Broadway, 2012
James Earl Jones, Kristine Nielsen and Marc Damon Johnson in Broadway's You Can't Take It With You.
Kristine Nielsen and James Earl Jones in Broadway's You Can't Take It With You.
James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson
James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones
