Andor star Ebon Moss-Bachrach, who played the traitorous Arvel Skeen in season one of the hit show, joins Jon Bernthal in a Broadway bound stage adaptation of Dog Day Afternoon, the film made famous by Al Pacino and John Cazale. Bernthal and Moss-Machrach are currently starring in MCU projects, with Bernthal returning in Daredevil: Borm Again earlier this year and Moss-Bachrach starring as Ben Grimm (aka the Thing) in Fantastic Four: First Steps, which arrives 25th July and features a score by Michael Giacchino (Rogue One) and VFX by ILM.
A stage version of 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon from the theatrical arm of Warner Bros. is headed to Broadway, with The Bear actors Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in starring roles.
Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis adapted the film about a bank heist gone awry for the live stage, with Rupert Goold directing. Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures will open the play on Broadway in the spring of 2026.
Bernthal will play Sonny Amato and Moss-Bachrach will perform the role of Sal DeSilva. The Oscar-winning film Dog Day Afternoon was set in summer 1972 in New York City and followed one man’s desperate act with a Brooklyn bank hold up that quickly went wrong and generated national attention. In 1975, Al Pacino and John Cazale starred in Sidney Lumet’s Academy Award-winning hostage drama.
Moss-Bachrach as a stage and screen actor has TV credits that include HBO’s Girls, Netflix’s The Punisher and Disney+’s Andor. His stage performances include the 2011 production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, opposite Jessica Hecht, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, and a 2015 production of John Pollono’s Lost Girls, with Piper Perabo.
