Rosamund Pike, an Oxford-educated onetime Bond girl who received an Oscar nomination for “Gone Girl,” will make her Broadway debut this fall in “Inter Alia,” a legal drama about a judge who finds unexpected pitfalls in her courtroom philosophy when her own son’s behavior is challenged.
The run is to begin previews Nov. 10 and open Dec. 1 at the Music Box Theater.
This will be Pike’s third go at the play — she first starred in it last year at London’s National Theater, where it sold strongly, and she is now performing it again in London’s West End, where it opened this week to positive reviews. A 100-minute drama, “Inter Alia” has been nominated for two Olivier Awards, one for best new play and the other for Pike as best actress in the role of Jessica Parks.
“I’ve been waiting for the play that really called to me and felt contemporary and provocative and emotionally true,” Pike said in an interview. “As yet, I’m the only person to play her — obviously I have understudies — but I’ve developed her, I love her, and I’ve kind of grown her in me.”
The playwright is Suzie Miller, an Australian lawyer whose previous legal drama, “Prima Facie,” was staged on Broadway in 2023, winning a Tony Award for its star, Jodie Comer. Both “Prima Facie” and “Inter Alia” are directed by Justin Miller.
Pike said she is anticipating the Broadway run “with tremendous excitement.”
“I’ve always looked with awe to New York theater — I find Broadway so full of magic and inspiration and mystery,” she said. “I know that the New York audiences will be different. I don’t know in what way yet.”
Next year, London’s National Theater will celebrate 60 years of presenting work in the United States, and it now has active partnerships with two New York theaters: the Shed, where it presented “The Other Place” earlier this year, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where its latest production of “Hamlet” will be staged this month. “Inter Alia” will be the first work from the National to make it to Broadway since a 2021 production of “The Lehman Trilogy.”
“We’re thrilled,” said Kate Varah, the theater’s executive director. “The show is incredibly relatable and intimate but has these massive themes everybody is grappling with — how to bring up a child in today’s world.”
“Inter Alia” has been shown at movie theaters around the world by National Theater Live, the British nonprofit’s cinema arm. It can also be streamed via National Theater at Home, the company’s digital platform.
The National Theater will produce the Broadway run with Sue Wagner, John Johnson, No Guarantees and P3 Productions.
Michael Paulson is the theater reporter for The Times.
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