| Character
|
Off-Broadway debut (1980)
|
West End debut (1981)
|
Steppenwolf Theatre (1982)
|
West End revival (1994)
|
Broadway debut (2000)
|
2nd West End revival (2018)
|
Broadway revival (2018)
|
| Lee
|
Peter Boyle |
Bob Hoskins |
John Malkovich |
Mark Rylance |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Johnny Flynn |
Ethan Hawke
|
| Austin
|
Tommy Lee Jones |
Antony Sher |
Gary Sinise |
Michael Rudko |
John C. Reilly |
Kit Harington |
Paul Dano
|
| Mom
|
Laurie Metcalf |
Anne Dyson |
Margaret Thompson |
Lynsey Baxter |
Celia Weston |
Madeleine Potter |
Marylouise Burke
|
| Saul
|
Paul McBurney |
Tim Wylton |
Sam Schact |
Michael Rouse |
Robert LuPone |
Donald Sage Mackay |
Gary Wilmes
|
- Austin, a Hollywood screenwriter who is well educated and has a wife and children
- Lee, a drifter and a thief, and Austin's older brother.
- Mom, Austin and Lee's mother
- Saul Kimmer, a Hollywood producer
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