Overview
- Blue Moon is now playing in New York and Los Angeles and opens nationwide on October 24 via Sony Pictures Classics.
- Richard Linklater’s film centers on a single evening at Sardi’s during the 1943 opening of Oklahoma!, focusing on Lorenz Hart at a professional crossroads.
- Ethan Hawke stars as Hart with Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, joined by Margaret Qualley and Bobby Cannavale.
- Reviewers praise Hawke’s performance and note the script’s deliberate blend of documented history with dramatized invention.
- Coverage highlights the project’s long development and swift production, including a faithful Sardi’s recreation in Dublin and a roughly 15‑day shoot.