Director: Michael Cristofer
Michael Cristofer's 2024 drama The Great Lillian Hall turns a spotlight on the last stretch of a legendary stage career.
What is The Great Lillian Hall about?
Jessica Lange plays Lillian Hall, a Broadway institution who has never once missed a performance in a career spanning decades. As rehearsals begin for what may be her defining role, cracks start to show: lines slip, cues blur, and the sharp instincts that carried her for so long start to waver. Around her, a tight circle of people — a devoted assistant played by Kathy Bates, a daughter caught between concern and old resentment, a director trying to hold the production together — each respond differently as Lillian's grip on the stage, and on herself, grows less certain. The film moves between rehearsal rooms and quieter domestic spaces, tracking a woman who has built her identity around performance now forced to confront what happens when the performance can no longer hold. It is less about the show going on than about what it costs one artist to keep insisting that it must.
Cast & crew
Jessica Lange anchors the film opposite Kathy Bates, Pierce Brosnan, Jesse Williams, and Lily Rabe, with the ensemble built around the long, layered relationships that surround a career theater performer.
Context & significance
The Great Lillian Hall premiered in 2024 under director Michael Cristofer, set within the world of American theater and drawing on the traditions and pressures of a life spent on Broadway stages.
Where & how to watch
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