Michelle Williams: She returns to the theater stage

Oscar winner Michelle Williams (44) returns to the theater stage: The actress takes over the main role in a new production of the classic “Anna Christie”, which will be shown in the renowned St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York from autumn. At her side, Shootingstar Mike Faist (33), who caused a sensation with “West Side Story” and “Challengers” with “West Side Story” and “Challengers”.

Also special: the piece is staged by none other than Thomas Kail (48), husband of Williams and Tony-award-winning director, who celebrated great success with the Broadway hit “Hamilton”.

the starting signal for the off-broadway highlight on November 25, 2025, the season runs until February 1, 2026.

The drama “Anna Christie” is one of the most important works in the American theater literature. In New York in the 1920s, it tells the story of a young woman who wants to leave her past behind as a prostitute and when she returned to the world of her alienated father, meets new challenges and unexpected love.

Michelle Williams, who became known primarily through the series “Dawson’s Creek” and the film “Brokeback Mountain” (2005), has some stage experience – “Anna Christie” has been her first theater role in almost ten years. In 2014 the actress had her Broadway debut with “Cabaret”, followed “Blackbird” in 2016.

Husband Thomas Kail, whom she married in 2020, has been working on Broadway for many years, among other things he staged the musical “in the Heights”, for which he received a tony nomination. His most famous work is the collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda for “Hamilton” in 2015, for which he was awarded the Tony Award.

Mike Faist, who first received international attention from “West Side Story”, started his acting career at the theater. First with smaller off-broadway roles, from 2012 in “Newsies” and from 2016 in “Dear Evan Hansen”, for which he was nominated for Tony as the best supporting actor. In 2023 he was seen at the London West End in the play “Brokeback Mountain”.