A new stage adaptation of the award-winning 1975 screen hit “Dog Day Afternoon” is selling out on Broadway, with “The Bear” actors Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach playing the lead roles of bank robber Sonny and accomplice Sal.
The play — set in the summer of 1972 with the Vietnam War looming, former President Richard Nixon in the oval office, and prison riots at Attica a year earlier — tells the story of a bank robbery gone awry. The robbers turn the tide on law enforcement as empathetic New Yorkers side with the disenfranchised hostage-takers, as crowds swell outside the robbery site.
The play, by Pulitzer-Prize-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, features themes including economic disparity, gender bias, and policing, as relevant today as they were more than 50 years ago when the movie was released. \…