Rain on 48th Street, David Corenswet Sets His Broadway Debut

Superman has a theater now. It is the Longacre, on West 48th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, and he moves in at the end of January.

David Corenswet makes his Broadway debut in a revival of Richard Greenberg's Three Days of Rain. The casting was first announced in June. This week the producers filled in the rest, and BroadwayWorld reported the house, the dates and the design team. Performances start Saturday, January 30, 2027. Opening night is Monday, March 1. The run is a strictly limited 16 weeks.

Two Generations, Three Actors

The play is built like a trick box. Three actors play two sets of people. In the first act it is 1995, and siblings Walker and Nan meet their childhood friend Pip in a downtown Manhattan loft that their fathers, both architects, once designed. A journal and a will turn up, and the questions start. The second act goes back to April 1960 and shows the parents.

Corenswet plays Walker and his father Ned. François Arnaud, known for Heated Rivalry and Schitt's Creek, plays Pip and Theo. Yvonne Strahovski, a two-time Emmy nominee for The Handmaid's Tale, plays Nan and Lina. New York Theatre Guide lists the show as a Broadway debut for both Corenswet and Arnaud.

The production calls it a sharply funny drama that plays out as a mystery about inheritance. It also reaches back for old reviews.

"Engrossing puzzle in two acts."

That line comes from The New York Times, one of several the producers quote, alongside the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine and Variety.

A Play With a Past

Three Days of Rain began at South Coast Repertory in California in 1997 and reached New York that November at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage II at City Center. That production won a 1998 Obie for its direction, and the play was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The play has a habit of drawing stars. The first California cast included John Slattery and Patricia Clarkson. London saw Colin Firth in it at the Donmar Warehouse in 1999, and James McAvoy at the Apollo in 2009, in a staging by Jamie Lloyd.

Its last Broadway visit is the one people remember. In 2006 Julia Roberts made her stage debut in it at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, opposite Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper. The production closed as scheduled that June, and the reviews were poor.

This revival arrives without its author. Greenberg, who won the Tony for Take Me Out in 2003, died of cancer in Manhattan on July 4, 2025, at 67.

The Room Around Him

Anna D. Shapiro directs. She won a Tony for August: Osage County and also directed Eureka Day. Todd Rosenthal designs the set, Arianne Phillips the costumes and Donald Holder the lights, with sound by Justin Ellington. David Binder produces, with Jayne Baron Sherman as co-producer. Gigi Buffington coaches voice and text, and Luc Verschueren of Campbell Young Associates designs the wigs and hair.

Corenswet comes to it from a very large screen. Born in Philadelphia, he trained at Juilliard, finishing in 2016. Netflix's The Politician and Hollywood came next, then HBO's We Own This City, Ti West's Pearl and Twisters. On Apple TV+ he played opposite Natalie Portman in Lady in the Lake. James Gunn cast him as Superman, and the film opened in July 2025. He came back to the role in this year's Supergirl and is due again in Man of Tomorrow in 2027.

Between those comes a much smaller frame. There are no effects in Greenberg's play, only three actors, one loft and a lot of talk.

What to Know Before You Go

Three Days of Rain plays the Longacre Theatre, 220 West 48th Street. Previews start January 30 and the play opens March 1. Tickets are not on sale yet, and the producers say they will be soon.

West 48th Street is having a moment. A short walk east, the James Earl Jones Theatre already holds Wanted, the new musical about outlaw twin sisters that opens November 8.

Three days of rain, sixteen weeks of Superman. The forecast for 48th Street looks crowded.