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\u201cJob<\/a>,\u201d a two-character thriller about a psychological evaluation going awry, started small, with a run last year at SoHo Playhouse. Word-of-mouth was good, the New York Times review was positive<\/a> and sales were strong, so early this year it transferred for another Off Broadway run at the Connelly Theater in the East Village.<\/p>\n Now the play, written by Max Wolf Friedlich and directed by Michael Herwitz, is planning to make the leap to Broadway, with a two-month run beginning this summer at the Hayes Theater.<\/p>\n The Broadway production, like the Off Broadway runs, will star Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon. Both of them appeared in the HBO series \u201cSuccession\u201d \u2014 Friedman was a member of the principal cast, playing Frank Vernon<\/a>, the chief operating officer of Waystar Royco, and Lemmon appeared in the show at one point as a love interest of Kendall Roy.<\/p>\n Friedman is a mainstay of the New York stage who was nominated for a Tony Award for \u201cRagtime.\u201d Lemmon has worked mostly onscreen, including in the Hulu streamer \u201cHelstrom”; if her surname sounds familiar, that\u2019s because she is also the granddaughter of the great actor Jack Lemmon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In \u201cJob,\u201d Friedman plays a therapist who has been hired to evaluate Lemmon\u2019s character for her suitability to return to work. (She has been suspended after a videotaped workplace breakdown.) Their interaction is fraught, and frightening, from the get-go.<\/p>\n \u201cJob\u201d is scheduled to begin previews July 15 and to open July 30 at the Hayes Theater, which, with about 600 seats, is the smallest house on Broadway. The run will be brief \u2014 it is scheduled to end on Sept. 29.<\/p>\n The play is being produced by Hannah Getts, who has been with the show at each stage of its production history; Alex Levy<\/a>, a speechwriter and media strategist whose work includes communications consulting for New York Times executives; Craig Balsam, who co-founded the music company Razor & Tie; and P3 Productions<\/a>, the company that was the lead producer for last season\u2019s musical \u201cHow to Dance in Ohio.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cJob\u201d will be the latest sign of a surge to the stage<\/a> by \u201cSuccession\u201d alumni. Those include two of this year\u2019s Tony nominees \u2014 Jeremy Strong, who played Kendall Roy on \u201cSuccession,\u201d is nominated for \u201cAn Enemy of the People<\/a>,\u201d and Juliana Canfield, who played Kendall\u2019s assistant, Jess, is nominated for \u201cStereophonic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Also on Broadway, Natalie Gold, who played Kendall\u2019s ex-wife, Rava, is featured in \u201cAppropriate<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile in London, Sarah Snook (Shiv Roy) won an Olivier Award<\/a> last month for her performance in a one-woman version of \u201cThe Picture of Dorian Gray<\/a>\u201d that is expected to transfer to New York next year. Also in London, Brian Cox (Logan Roy) is starring in a revival of \u201cLong Day\u2019s Journey Into Night\u201d and J. Smith-Cameron (Gerri Kellman) is planning to star in a revival of \u201cJuno and the Paycock\u201d this fall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n