James Franco is adding another notch to his expansive resume — stage director. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater said Monday that Franco will direct Robert Boswell’s world premiere play The Long Shrift from July 7-August 23. The off-Broadway job will coincide with Franco’s current one on Broadway as an actor in Of Mice and Men. He made his Broadway debut this spring with Chris O’Dowd playing two tragic migrant workers trying to make their way through the aftermath of drought and the Depression in 1930s America. The play ends its run on July 27.
