Forest Whitaker Plans 2016 Broadway Debut In O'Neill's 'Hughie'
The Oscar winner will take on the lead role in a revival of the 1941 drama staged by British director Michael Grandage (Red, Frost/Nixon). Whitaker (Southpaw, The Last King Of Scotland, Bird, etc.) will play Erie Smith, the role created by Jason Robards Jr. in its 1964 Broadway premiere, over a decade after the Nobel Prize laureate’s death. Set during the pre-dawn hours in a grim hotel on Manhattan’…