Samuel D. Hunter's Little Bear Ridge Road will bow on Broadway this fall, playing the Booth Theatre beginning October 7 ahead of an October 30 opening night. Joe Mantello will direct after staging the work's world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre last year.

Also back from that run are stars Laurie Metcalf as Sarah, Micah Stock as Ethan, John Drea as James, and Meighan Gerachis as Paulette. Additional casting is to be announced.

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But perhaps the most noteworthy return the production is affording is for producer Scott Rudin, who will produce the transfer alongside Barry Diller. Rudin has been largely absent from the industry since reports emerged of his abusive behavior to subordinates behind the scenes. Though such reports have been published periodically over his career, Rudin stepped away from his professional life following 2021 articles in The Hollywood Reporter and New York Magazine. Published in the wake of the #MeToo movement, both resulted in renewed calls for Rudin to be barred from the industry. Rudin ultimately announced that he would “step back” from Broadway productions and film projects and resign from The Broadway League, installing Kate Horton as executive producer of his then-developing Broadway revival of The Music Man. That revival would open at the Winter Garden Theatre in 2022 starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. Little Bear Ridge Road will be Rudin's first official step back. And according to earlier reports, Rudin has more projects waiting in the wings.

Steppenwolf Theatre, a producer on the currently running Tony-winning play Purpose and the institution that commissioned Little Bear Ridge Road, will not produce the Broadway transfer.

The play follows the Fernsby family in rural Idaho as an estranged aunt and nephew reunite following the passing of a family patriarch. Playwright Hunter (The Whale) will make his Broadway debut with the work, which was originally commissioned by Steppenwolf.

Mantello has reassembled his Steppenwolf creative team for Broadway, including scenic designer Scott Pask, costume designer Jessica Pabst, lighting designer Heather Gilbert, and sound designer Mikhail Fiksel.