Lupita Nyong'o headed to NY stage

An Oscar-winning film star is reclaiming her theater roots.

Lupita Nyong'o will make her New York stage debut this fall at the Public Theater, in Zimbabwean-American playwright/actress Danai Gurira's Eclipsed. The play is described by the Public's artistic director, Oskar Eustis, as "a feminist reading of the Liberian Civil War, a war that was ended by women."

The off-Broadway production, which marks the play's New York premiere, casts Nyong'o as "The Girl," whose arrival jars a community formed by the captive wives of a rebel officer.

As a teenager, Nyong'o, who earned her Academy Award for 12 Years A Slave, appeared in stage productions in Kenya. She is also an alumna of the Yale School of Drama.

Eclipsed is set to begin previews Sept. 29, and open Oct. 14.