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Both actors will make their respective Broadway debuts, with Bernthal taking on the role of Sonny Amato, played by Al Pacino in the 1975 film. Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis ...

Fifty years ago today, Dog Day Afternoon made its theatrical debut, unleashing a crime drama unlike any other. Based on a mind-boggling true story, director Sidney Lumet’s (Murder on the Orient ...

A buzzy new play will mark the Broadway debuts of two stars of The Bear. Emmy winners Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will lead Dog Day Afternoon, a stage adaptation from Pulitzer Prize winner ...

The 1975 film was based on a real-life Brooklyn bank robbery that escalated into a hostage situation and a media circus. Lumet's interview originally aired in 1998; Pacino's was broadcast in 2024.

Chris Sarandon is looking back at Dog Day Afternoon, 50 years later. In a wide-ranging interview with The Guardian, the actor talked about playing Leon Shermer in the 1975 film, which is based on the ...

Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will make their Broadway debuts next year in Dog Day Afternoon, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy) based on the ...

2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY) will write a new play based on the Oscar-winning motion picture DOG DAY AFTERNOON. The 1975 crime drama was directed by ...