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Ryan Murphy Helps Bring Jessica Lange Back to Broadway After a Decade Away

Elsa Mars is finally going to be a star. Photo: Joe Scarnici/Getty

Jessica Lange will return to Broadway for the first time in over a decade next spring, with the Eugene O’Neill classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Lange reprises the role of the morphine-addled matriarch Mary Tyrone, a character she played in London’s West End back in 2000, for which she received an Olivier nomination. She’ll co-star alongside In Treatment’s Gabriel Byrne, who plays the patriarch of the family, James Tyrone, and John Gallagher Jr., as their son Edmund. But if you thought that this would be a Ryan Murphy–free universe, you would be mistaken! The New York Times reports that Murphy holds the stage rights to the play and approached Todd Haimes, the director of the Roundabout Theater Company, about producing the play with Lange, who is maybe playing Elsa Mars playing Mary Tyrone. After all, everything is connected.

Jessica Lange Is Returning to Broadway