Two of Hollywood's most enduring stars will take the stage on Broadway this fall. Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones have signed on for a revival of D.L. Coburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Gin Game, Playbill.com reports.
The play centers around two elderly residents at a nursing home who strike up a friendship over games of gin rummy.

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The show will begin previews on September 21 and officially open on October 13.

The veteran actors previously worked together on the stage decades ago, when they starred in Broadway's A Hand Is on the Gate in 1966 and in the long-running production of Jean Genet’s The Blacks.
Both actors have been celebrated across various mediums. Tyson won a Tony Award for her work in A Trip to Bountiful, as well as three Emmy Awards and an Oscar nomination for Sounder. Jones himself is a two-time Tony Award winner for Fences and The Great White Hope and has also won three Emmys, a Grammy and an honorary Oscar.
Watch Tyson deliver a stirring acceptance speech for the Living Legend Award at Black Girls Rock! below.

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