Lane to return to NYC stage

Nathan Lane is going back to the New York stage as the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo.

The actor, who was last seen on Broadway as Max Bialystock in The Producers, will star in Trumbo, a play based on the screenwriter’s letters and written by his son, Christopher Trumbo, reports the Associated Press.

Dalton Trumbo wrote the screenplays for film classics such as The Brave One, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Lonely Are The Brave and Roman Holiday.

He was blacklisted after refusing to answer questions about his political affiliations before Senator McCarthy’s infamous Un-American Activities Committee and went to prison for a year.