Steppenwolf's Virginia Woolf will open on Broadway in 2012

Steppenwolf Theater Company's recent production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will move to Broadway in 2012, the theater is announcing today. The Broadway production is set to open October 13, 2012, 50 years to the day after the original production's opening date in 1962.

The Steppenwolf revival, which starred Tracy Letts, Amy Morton, Carrie Coon and Madison Dirks and was helmed by Pam McKinnon, opened in December, just in time to snag a slot on our top-ten list for 2010. (Read my full review here.) In February the production moved to Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, where it closed earlier this month. The whole gang, including designers Todd Rosenthal (set), Nan Cibula-Jenkins (costumes), Allen Lee Hughes (lighting) and Rob Milburn and Michael Bodeen (sound design), will reunite for the Broadway production, in a Shubert theater to be announced. Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Susan Quint Gallin and Mary Lu Roffe will produce. Richards and Frankel previously shepherded the Broadway transfers of August: Osage County and Superior Donuts, and are also producing Steppenwolf's Detroit for Broadway this fall.