Jake Gyllenhaal, Tom Sturridge & Director Carrie Cracknell Reflect On Broadway’s 2019 ‘Sea Wall/A Life’ & Ponder What’s Next – The Deadline Q&A
Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticAudiences moved to tears – actually, moved to sobs – were commonplace throughout last year’s nine-week Broadway run of Sea Wall/A Life, the pair of solo one-act plays starring, respectively, Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal. Directed by Carrie Cracknell, the plays – unconnected except by themes of unthinkable grief and the thin, piano-wire possibility of hope – combined for a powerful evening of theater, winning critical raves and full houses, recouping its $2.8 million investment just two months after its August 2019 opening at the Hudson Theater.No small part of the production’s success, commercially and artistically, was the casting.