A Late Replacement for Tyne Daly in Broadway’s ‘Doubt,’ Amy Ryan Faces a Formidable Task

Daly herself was following one of the greatest actors alive, Cherry Jones, in the role of Sister Aloysius Beauvier, a Catholic middle school principal who suspects a popular priest of highly inappropriate behavior with one of his students.

Joan Marcus
Amy Ryan and Zoe Kazan in 'Doubt.' Joan Marcus

Starring in a Broadway revival of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play would ordinarily be a pretty sweet gig, but I do not envy Amy Ryan. About a month ago, just as previews were set to begin for a new production of John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt: A Parable,” with a stellar cast led by Liev Schreiber and Tyne Daly, it was announced that Ms. Daly had to withdraw for health reasons and would be replaced by Ms. Ryan.

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