'The Cottage' on Broadway is just the start of Jason Alexander's busy theater schedule

Jason Alexander's latest theatrical project, the new comedy 'The Cottage,' opened on Broadway last night - and it's just the first in a series of theatrical projects that are poised to keep the former 'Seinfeld' star busy in theaters for the next year or more.

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Alexander revealed what he has planned on the latest episode of "Stagecraft," Variety's theater podcast. In addition to starring in the Chicago Shakespeare Theater production of "Judgment Day," the new comedy written by Rob Ulin and directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, in the spring, Alexander said he's also talking with director Lonny Price about a 2024 production of "Fiddler on the Roof" in Los Angeles, with Price directing and Alexander as Tevye.

The project would be a reunion for Price and Alexander, who both starred in the original cast of "Merrily We Roll Along." No firm plans have been set for 'Fiddler,' but Alexander said he and Price already had an idea of ​​how they would approach it: "There's been a lot of monkeying around with 'Fiddler' in the last few covers," Alexander said. "What if we returned it to its originally intended veritas and values, and looked at it again as it was more or less intended to be?"

As a director, Alexander is also attached to "The War of the Roses," Peter Tolan's stage adaptation ("Rescue Me") of the novel that also inspired the 1989 film starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Alexander noted that Eric McCormack, the 'Will and Grace' star who plays a lead role in 'The Cottage', was also involved in 'War of the Roses' during its development.

"It's one of the funniest, prettiest and most theatrical pieces," Alexander said of Tolan's dark comedy. It's also expensive: “We have to build an absolutely magnificent house, then destroy it [at each performance]. It has a cataclysmic end."

This project is targeting Broadway - it was even announced in early 2020 - but no theaters or dates have been booked yet.

Alexander also mentioned a production of "The Last Five Years," which he directed at Syracuse Stage in 2019, that he would love to go to in New York, as well as some covers of pieces "that could be really fun," he said, if they materialized.

Also in the new episode of "Stagecraft," Alexander discussed comedy choreography, secrets of upper-crust English emphasis, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, and why he can never go too long without returning to acting.

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