Monday, September 21, 2009
Theater
The 39 Steps Steps Off Stage in January
Posted
by Benjamin Sutton
on Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:26 PM
The Broadway production of
The 39 Steps, a comedy about a man mistaken for a spy then whisked into pursuit of the titular secret society in order to clear his name adapted by Patrick Barlow from the 1915
John Buchan novel and the extremely enjoyable 1935
Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name, will end its run on January 10, by which time it will have been the longest-running play (ie. non-musical) on Broadway in the last 7 years.
ArtsBeat calculates by then it will have been performed some 771 times at three different Broadway theaters. After closing here the show goes on the road, to Seattle and New Haven, while the London production, now in its third year, continues.
Tags: The 39 Steps, Broadway, Alfred Hitchcock, John Buchan, adaptation
