Robert Downey Jr Will Star In Lincoln Center Theaters Production Of MCNEAL - A New Play By Ayad Akhtar

Theatre and Avengers fans...assemble. Lincoln Center Theater has announced that it will produce McNeal, a new play by Ayad Akhtar, directed by Bartlett Sher. The production will star Academy Award-winner Robert Downey Jr. as Jacob McNeal, in his Broadway debut. McNeal will begin previews Thursday, September 5, and open on Monday, September 30th.  The first Broadway production of LCT’s 40^th Anniversary season, McNeal will play a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, November 24th only at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Jacob McNeal (Robert Downey Jr.) is a great writer, one of our greatest, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But McNeal also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind and an unhealthy fascination with Artificial Intelligence. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s new play is a startling and wickedly smart examination of the inescapable humanity – and increasing inhumanity – of the stories we tell.

Under the direction of André Bishop McNeal will have sets by Michael Yeargan & Jake Barton, costumes by Jennifer Moeller, lighting by Donald Holder, sound by Justin Ellington & Beth Lake, and projections by Jake Barton. Jennifer Rae Moore will be the stage manager. McNeal is produced by Lincoln Center Theater in association with Team Downey. Complete casting will be announced at a later date.

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