The Oscar-winning film director Steven Soderbergh (“Traffic”) will make his New York theater debut this spring staging the Off Broadway world premiere of a new drama, “The Library,” about the effects of gun violence on a high school student, played by the movie actress Chloe Grace Moretz (“Kick-Ass,” the 2013 remake of “Carrie”). The Public Theater, which will produce “The Library,” made the show announcement on Thursday.
The play is by Scott Z. Burns, a screenwriter who has worked often with Mr. Soderbergh, including writing the scripts for the films “Side Effects,” “Contagion” and “The Informant!” Mr. Soderbergh, who has indicated he would step away from film work after his last, the HBO movie “Behind the Candelabra,” previously created a stage work titled “Tot Mom,” about Casey Anthony and the disappearance of her daughter Caylee; it ran at the Sydney Theater Company in Australia in 2009.
“The Library,” which will run March 25 through April 27, will also be the New York theatrical debuts of Ms. Moretz and Mr. Burns, according to the Public.
Special financial support for the production is coming from the Kennedy/Marshall Company, the film company of Hollywood producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall.