‘Country Girl’ in New York

Mike Nichols will direct a Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’ “The Country Girl,” starring Morgan Freeman, Frances McDormand and Peter Gallagher, next spring.

The production will open in April at a Shubert theater, Ostar Productions and Bob Boyett said Tuesday. The date and theater will be announced later.

The play, first seen on Broadway in 1950, concerns a down-on-his-luck actor, played by Freeman, who is offered a comeback chance by a hotshot director (Gallagher). McDormand portrays the actor’s wife. A 1954 movie version starred Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and William Holden.