Michael Moore to take on Trump on Broadway

New York: Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore is taking his tough, anti-Donald Trump talk to Broadway. The Academy Award-winning director of Bowling for Columbine will perform the one-man show The Terms of My Surrender at the Belasco Theatre starting July 28 for 12 weeks. Moore on Monday promised a very topical show that has a subversive, urgent tone. Not all of it will be scripted, some of it will riff on events of the day and it may have guests and interactive elements. Tony winner Michael Mayer will direct. While not all of the show will be an extended rant against Trump, Moore called it a “comedy shiv” pointed at the administration and performed only a few blocks from Trump Tower. The show’s tagline is “Can a Broadway show take down a sitting President?” “I operate under the hope that he won’t be president for very long,” Moore said. “Why don’t we see if every night — and twice in the afternoon — for 12 weeks if a piece of theater can raise enough of a ruckus to discombobulate the man sitting in the Oval Office? I don’t know, but I’d like to find out.” He added: “Stranger things have happened in the last year.” While Moore had a one-man show about the 2016 election called “Michael Moore In TrumpLand,” the filmmaker said The Terms of My Surrender will be composed of completely original material. Moore directed and produced Fahrenheit 9/11,a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, and Sicko, which examines health care in the United States. —