JANNEY TO STAR IN SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION
New York: A Broadway revival of Six Degrees of Separation will star Allison Janney and John Benjamin Hickey as the rich New York couple who have a run-in with a brash con artist. Seven-time Emmy Award-winner Janney and Tony Awardwinner Hickey will be under the direction of Trip Cullman. The show plans to open at the Barrymore Theatre in April 2017. The play, which was a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for drama and received a best-play Tony Award nomination, is about a young black man pretending to be a Harvard University student and actor Sidney Poitier’s son who charms his way into the white upper crust. The real-life scam inspired John Guare’s acclaimed play and a movie starring Will Smith. More casting will be announced later. —