![]() Shaw will play the Virgin Mary, struggling to come to grips with. Wednesday, after the news had sunk in, Mr. The acclaimed actress Fiona Shaw and her longtime collaborator, the director Deborah Warner, will return to Broadway this spring for the first time since their Medea in 2002 with another play about an emotionally vivid and vulnerable woman: The Testament of Mary. Toibin said he took the news in stride – commercial Broadway is a brutal business, with only 25 percent of shows ever turning a profit – and went off to his teaching job at Columbia University. Rudin was telling him that the play would close on Sunday, after only 43 performances and far earlier Toibin ever had: He was a freshly minted Tony nominee, but his producer Mr. The voice on the other end said, “I have Scott Rudin on the line for you.” And so began one of the more Of Mary” had just been nominated for a best play Tony Award, when the telephone rang. The Irish writer Colm Toibin was shaving in his bathroom on Tuesday morning, and savoring the news that his “Testament Credit Joshua Bright for The New York Times
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