Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon Reimagines Lorenz Hart in a One-Night Broadway Chamber Drama

Overview

• Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow and directed by Richard Linklater, stars Ethan Hawke as lyricist Lorenz Hart in a USA/Ireland 2025 production running about 100 minutes.
• The film unfolds almost entirely inside Sardi’s, the famed Broadway restaurant, as Hart holds court at the bar during the premiere night of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!.
• The drama centers on Hart’s loneliness and drinking and on the breakup of Rodgers & Hart as Richard Rodgers begins a new partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II.
• Reviews describe the movie as a dialogue-driven chamber piece rather than a conventional cradle-to-grave biopic, with theatrical monologues and barroom debates setting the tone.
• The ensemble features Margaret Qualley as Elizabeth, Bobby Cannavale as bartender Eddie, Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Jonah Lees as Morty, Patrick Kennedy as E. B. White, and Simon Delaney as Oscar Hammerstein II.