•Producer Scott Rudin and the cast of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ accept the award for Best Revival of a Musical onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall. Theo Wargo/Getty ImagesScott Rudin will mount Wallace Shawn’s new play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, at Greenwich House Theater beginning February 4, marking his second New York stage project since a 2021 exposé detailed allegations of workplace abuse, per hollywoodreporter.com.
The 12-week run, reunites Shawn with longtime collaborator André Gregory, who directs. The ensemble cast features Hope Davis, Maria Dizzia, John Early and Josh Hamilton in a drama tracking a fractured urban family—father, mother, son and the father’s mistress—navigating desire and violence in a “sophisticated city.”
Rudin is producing alongside Barry Diller and Shawn, extending the pair’s recent Broadway partnership on Little Bear Ridge Road this fall. The team previously shepherded Shawn’s The Designated Mourner in 2000.
Davis, fresh off Apple TV+’s Before and an Emmy-nominated turn in Succession, leads the cast. Dizzia, seen in School Spirits and the recent Off-Broadway hit Pre-Existing Condition, joins comedians Early (Search Party, The Afterparty) and Hamilton (Reality, Jay Kelly).
Shawn, whose 50-year creative alliance with Gregory birthed My Dinner with Andre and Vanya on 42nd Street, calls the play an exploration of “intelligent and thoughtful people” armed with the “weapon of our own feelings.”
Tickets go on sale next month.
