'Frankenstein' play to air on big screen

NEW YORK, March 7 (UPI) -- A live performance of director Danny Boyle's London stage play, "Frankenstein," is to be broadcast in some U.S. movie theaters, the show's producers said.

National Theatre Live will present the screening of the sold-out play, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller, March 17-24.

The broadcasts will be shown on screens throughout the United States, with additional encore dates in most markets.

"Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker," the show's producers said in a synopsis Monday. "Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale."