David Mamet's The Anarchist, With Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, Will Play Broadway's Lyceum

By Adam Hetrick
13 Jun 2012

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone
Photo by Ethan Hill

David Mamet's prison-set, two-woman drama The Anarchist, starring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone and Academy Award nominee Debra Winger, will play Broadway's Lyceum Theatre beginning Nov. 13.

Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna, Speed-the-Plow) will direct his intense drama about "two powerful women forced to engage in a cage match of wits." The Anarchist will officially open Dec. 2.

Set in a female penitentiary, the play casts LuPone (Evita, Gypsy) as Cathy, a longtime inmate with ties to a violent political organization, who pleads for parole from the warden, Ann, to be played by Winger.

An on-sale ticket date has not been announced.

LuPone has a long history with Mamet. The two first worked together on his drama The Woods in 1977. LuPone's Mamet appearances also include The Water Engine, Edmond, The Old Neighborhood and the film "State and Main."

The Anarchist marks Winger's Broadway debut. She is a three-time Academy Award nominee for "Terms of Endearment," "Shadowlands" and "An Officer and a Gentleman."

A revival of Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, to star Al Pacino, is also in the works for the 2012-13 season.

Visit theanarchistbroadway.com.