Adrienne Warren will follow up Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King” with another woman-directed project. Deadline reports that the Tony winner will return to the stage with the Broadway American premiere of “Room,” Emma Donoghue’s stage adaptation of her 2010 novel. Donoghue also adapted the book into a 2015 film led by Brie Larson, who went on to win an Oscar for her performance.
“Room” centers on Ma (Warren), a woman who was kidnapped as a teenage girl. She’s spent seven years locked up by her captor. Now a mother to a five-year-old son who has never experienced the outside world, Ma builds an imaginary world for him — and plots