Hugh Jackman returning to Broadway with ‘The River’

Jackman will play a reclusive fisherman living in a remote cabin on the cliffs high above a river, who takes a woman trout-fishing on a moonless night. Her disappearance sparks a mystery, making way for the arrival of another woman and suggesting that the fisherman is trying to recapture something from his lost past.

Donnelly and Jumbo are making their Broadway debut. Jackman won a Tony for lead actor in a musical in 2004 for his role as songwriter-performer Peter Allen in ‘The Boy From Oz’. He starred opposite Daniel Craig in ‘A Steady Rain’ in 2009, and returned in 2011 with ‘Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway’.