Julia Roberts is returning to Broadway 20 years after her stage debut, and she’s ecstatic to reunite with the same director from her 2006 play, Three Days of Rain.
She will star in the comedy Small Mouth Sounds, which features an all-star cast including Paul Rudd, who shared the stage with Roberts in her Broadway debut.
“I could not be any more excited to reunite with Joe Mantello on this beautiful piece by Bess Wohl,” Roberts said in a statement released Friday, October 23. “And my cast mates!! Total joy!”
Mangello is a three-time Tony Award winner, including taking home Best Direction in a Play honors for the 2026 revival of Death of a Salesman.
In Small Mouth Sounds, six strangers arrive at an upstate spiritual retreat determined to escape their problems, turn inward, and transform their lives in a story with a minimum of dialogue.
After starring with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon in 2004 in Ocean’s Twelve, Roberts took two years off to raise her twins, Phinnaeus and Hazel, who were born that year. When she appeared in Three Days of Rain, she kept her kids, who were 16-months-old at the time, very close.
“It’s heaven truly,” Julia said on The Today Show in April, 2006. “I mean, we were rehearsing one day, and we had just moved into the theater and it was dark out here, and I was on stage, and all of the sudden, I hear, ‘Mama!’ And Hazel had come in and in the dark just to hear this little voice, and it’s incredibly amazing.”
The Oscar winner remembers how husband Danny Moder supported moving their family temporarily to New York City for her theater run.
“It’s a family decision, definitely, we sort of had to agree on it as a family, but I’m lucky, like my kids are here, and you know, they have a little playroom upstairs,” Julia continued.
Small Mouth Sounds will begin previews at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre on February 10, 2027, ahead of its official opening on March 11.
As she looks forward to returning to Broadway, Roberts is also preparing for Ocean’s 14. She’ll reprise role as Tess, wife of Clooney’s character, Danny Ocean.
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