“Let me rise through the cloudy above”
The New York Theatre Workshop, under artistic director James C. Nicola, has announced that Golden Globe winner and six-time Emmy nominee Michael C. Hall will star as Thomas Newton in the upcoming world premiere of Lazarus by David Bowie and Enda Walsh.
Previews will begin at the New York Theatre Workshop on 18 November 2015, before an official opening on 7 December.
Inspired by the 1963 novel The Man Who Fell to Earth by Walter Tevis, the drama will feature songs specially composed by Bowie for this production as well as new arrangements of previously recorded songs.
Lazarus, directed by Ivo van Hove, centres on the character of Thomas Newton, famously portrayed by Bowie in the 1976 screen adaptation directed by Nicolas Roeg.
Further creative and casting details will be announced at a later date.