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Rebecca Rubin
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Getty Images for Disney Tom Hanks will star in the play “This World of Tomorrow,” marking his return to Broadway for the first time in 14 years.
Hanks was last on Broadway in Nora Ephron’s 2013 play “Lucky Guy,” which earned him a Tony nomination. This time, the celebrated actor will be joined by theater veteran Kelli O’Hara, who appeared alongside him in the show’s Off Broadway run last year at the Shed.
“This World of Tomorrow” is based on a series of short stories written by Hanks. He’s co-writing the adaptation with James Glossman. Described as a “time-travel romance,” the play takes place at the end of the 21st century and follows Bert Allenberry, who is determined to change his future by returning to the past. “When Bert journeys back — again, and again, and again — to one remarkable day at the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Queens, he discovers that the future is shaped not by technology, but by the choices we make for love,” per the official logline.
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