EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca De Mornay will star in the world premiere Off Broadway production of John Patrick Shanley’s The Pushover, with performances beginning next month.
Directed by Kirk Gostkowski, The Pushover begins a limited four-week engagement on Friday, April 3, at the Chain Theatre in Manhattan. Opening night is Monday, April 6.
The synopsis: The Pushover is a play about three bad-ass women who collide and collude at a spa in New Mexico and a bare-bones Asian restaurant in Queens. Dangerous and hungry, their weapons and their passions bleed into each other. They speak the language of the outcast, rough and sexual, and fight to survive, and to love.
De Mornay (Risky Business, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle), who will play the character Evelyn, collaborated previously with Shanley (Doubt: A Parable, Moonstruck) on a 2025 benefit reading in New York of one-acts titled Outcasts. She’ll be joined in The Pushover by Di Zhu (Off Broadway’s The Master and Margarita) as Pearl, Christina Toth (Orange Is the New Black) as Soochie, and Christopher Sutton (Off Broadway’s Rules of Desire) as the therapist.
“There’s a kind of theater that’s always attracted me,” Shanley said in a statement. “It’s intimate and up close. There’s a delicious danger in proximity, and the Chain Theatre lives in that zone. The Pushover has an amazing cast, and they will practice their fervent chemistry without the buffer of distance. You will be in my play.”
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