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Anne Hathaway heading to the stage this spring

NEW YORK — Anne Hathaway will be playing something a little different this spring — an Air Force fighter pilot in a one-woman stage show.

Actress Anne Hathaway attends the premiere of Song One hosted by The Cinema Society and Tod's at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on Jan 20, 2015, in New York. Photo: AP

Actress Anne Hathaway attends the premiere of Song One hosted by The Cinema Society and Tod's at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on Jan 20, 2015, in New York. Photo: AP

NEW YORK — Anne Hathaway will be playing something a little different this spring — an Air Force fighter pilot in a one-woman stage show.

The Public Theatre said yesterday (Jan 22) that the Academy Award-winner will star in George Brant's play Grounded starting April 7. It's about a pilot who is reassigned to operate a military drone.

Visionary director Julie Taymor, behind the beauty of The Lion King, will direct.

Hathaway, who won an Oscar in Tom Hooper's Les Miserables, returns to the Public for the first time since she played Viola in a 2009 Shakespeare in the Park production. AP

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