On Sunday, Golden Globe-winning actor Alec Baldwin will make his Australian theatre debut, albeit virtually. Baldwin, and Australian actors Andrew Henry and Aaron Glenane will perform together in a world-wide live streamed reading of Lyle Kessler’s 1983 black comedy Orphans.

“It is just one of those things that you don’t know if you don’t ask. The whole industry can be about set-backs at a lot of moments, but this is just one where we were a bit fearless, we asked the question and it paid off for us,” says Henry, who came up with the idea of approaching Baldwin.

Alec Baldwin with Tom Sturridge and Ben Foster in Orphans on Broadway, 203. Photograph © Joan Marcus

The renowned American actor, who played the role of Harold in Orphans on Broadway in 2013, accepted with alacrity. “I love this play and I am excited to, finally, be playing Australia!” he said.

Baldwin’s numerous credits include the 1992 Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, for which he received a Tony nomination, and films such as Beetlejuice, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Aviator, Blue Jasmine, Still Alice, Mission Impossible: Fallout and The Cooler for which he received an...