Friday, March 27, 2026
‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Playwright Briefly Kept Out of Broadway Rehearsals
The New York Times: Making a new Broadway show is often stressful. At “Dog Day Afternoon,” a stage adaptation of Sidney Lumet’s 1975 movie about a Brooklyn bank robbery and hostage-taking, that stress became so intense that the production’s Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright was prohibited from entering the August Wilson Theater for three days over the last week.
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Having worked with playwrights before, I understand the statement that producing a new play is always a passionate one. When you have been with a story for such a long time, it must be so difficult to pass it along to other people who tell you that you have to kill your darlings. Although, what many playwrights don’t understand is that the nature of theatre is that the text is being passed along to people who create a story. I think they know that but they just don’t understand – or maybe they do, and this passion for the original production is just a way of maintaining the last bit of control they feel like they have. In this example, I’m glad to hear that the solution was not to allow the playwright into rehearsal, so that he can practice not having control over how his text is interpreted.
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