Michelle Williams and Mike Faist to Star in Thomas Kail-Directed ANNA CHRISTIE
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Mike Faist stans, get ready! Michelle Williams will lead a production of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Cristie directed by Thomas Kail — alongside Faist — this winter. The play will be part of St. Ann's Warehouse Fall 2025 season, and run from Nov. 25 to Feb. 1, 2026.
Anna Christie follows the titular character, who is a reformed prostitute trying to turn her life around. Eugene O’Neill won the Pulitzer Prize For Drama for the play in 1922.
“It is an honor to have a chance to work with the extraordinary Michelle and Mike and this uncommonly talented creative team on Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie,” Kail said in a statement. To revive a play is to stand as part of a lineage, part of the glorious tradition of theater, to offer up something that is connecting the past and the present. Doing this play about what it means to try and make a new life on the sea — and the shore — at the remarkable riverside St. Ann's Warehouse feels like an ideal match.”
The season will kick off with Weather Girl by Brian Watkins, which will star Julia McDermott and be directed by Tyne Rafaeli. It will run at tk from Sept. 16 to Oct. 12. In Edinburgh Fringe Festival Hit, McDermott plays Stacey, a California weather girl, oversexed and underpaid. The solo eco drama explores “soul of American strangeness,” according to a press release. It is being adapted as a Netflix limited series.
From Sept. 24 to 28, Justin Vivian Bond will perform a tribute to Marianne Faithfull at the Church of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity. She recorded her comeback concert and record Blazing Away at the Church of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn Heights 25 years ago. It will be Bond’s first U.S. performance of Faithfull’s music since she passed away.
“It’s a thrill to be working with artists and producers of this caliber, playing at the top of their game this season at St. Ann’s Warehouse,” St. Ann’s Warehouse Artistic Director Susan Feldman said in a statement. “True innovators all, no one is flinching, but rather harnessing the greater good with unbounded hope and creativity. We’re excited to return to our roots at St. Ann’s Church for a dose of the sacred to bolster the charge.”
