Maya Hawke to Make Off Broadway Debut in Eurydice
Don’t look (back) now, but Maya Hawke, of Stranger Things and Asteroid City fame, will be making her Off Broadway debut in Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice as the titular heroine. Directed by Les Waters (Big Love) for Signature Theatre, the play, which tells the myth of Orpheus from his wife’s perspective, also marks Hawke’s professional stage debut (34 years after her father, Ethan Hawke, made his Off Broadway debut at the Public Theater in Casanova, and 26 years after her mother, Uma Thurman, made hers at Classic Stage Company in The Misanthrope).
“I could not be more excited about being directed by Les Waters in Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice,” Hawke said in a statement to Vulture. “I look forward to exploring the play’s themes of play and love and grief. For me, this story holds a powerful message about looking forward into your future. Eurydice is a warning to not spend your life fixated on your memories. It’s a call to presence, which I believe is essential in this moment in time. I can hardly contain my excitement about making my Off Broadway debut in this production.”
Ruhl’s Eurydice must choose between returning to Earth with Orpheus or staying in the Underworld with her father (of Ruhl’s creation). Additional casting has yet to be announced. The play first premiered Off Broadway in 2007, though an opera adaptation of Ruhl’s play was staged at the Met in 2021. Eurydice will run from May 13 to June 22 at Pershing Square Signature Center’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre. It closes the curtain on Ruhl’s residency with Signature Theatre, which has included productions of new play Letters From Max, a ritual in 2023 and her 2024 Orlando. What will Ruhl do now? Probably continue working on her new mu-Sara-cal, The Interestings, with Sara Bareilles. You know, Maya Hawke does sing …
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