Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr will make his Broadway debut in McNeal, a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar.
Downey Jr, who recently won his first Oscar for Christopher NolanOppenheimer (2023) will play the titular author of the play, which is being performed by Broadway giant Lincoln Center Theater at its Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
Directed by Bartlett Sher, McNeal is described as a “surprising and wickedly clever examination of the inescapable humanity and creeping inhumanity of the stories we tell,” according to a press release from Lincoln Center Theatre. “Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Jacob McNeal (Downey Jr) is a great writer, one of the greatest, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But McNeal also has an estranged son, a new novel, old worries, and an unhealthy fascination with artificial intelligence,” the official synopsis read. Downey Jr will also produce the show through his company, Team Downey, in collaboration with Lincoln Center Theatre.
McNeal will begin previews on September 5 and will perform in a strictly limited engagement from September 30 to November 24. Downey Jr currently stars in the HBO miniseries The Sympathizer, an adaptation of author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title.
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