After winning his first Oscar, Robert Downey Jr. will debut on Broadway

After winning his first Oscar, Robert Downey Jr. will debut on Broadway

The ‘Iron Man’ star will play a talented writer in a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar.

Robert Downey Jr. will make her Broadway debut this fall in a new play by Ayad Akhtar.

In the new work, called McNealDowney will play a talented writer dealing with a new novel, a broken family life, and “an unhealthy fascination with artificial intelligence.” Bartlett SherLincoln Center’s resident director who also directed To Kill a Mockingbird, among others, is directing.

Downey’s production company, Team Downey, is producing, in association with Lincoln Center Theatre.

The play will be presented at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater beginning September 5 and will premiere on September 30. The play will have a strictly limited engagement until November 24. Full casting will be announced at a later date.

The present work of Robert Downey Jr.

The star of Hombre de Hierro He won his first Oscar this year for his role in Oppenheimer. His recent projects include the HBO and A24 adaptation of the novel The Sympathizer. It is also planned to appear in Vertigo from Paramount Pictures.

Akhtar won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Disgraced, plus credits including Junk at Lincoln Center and The Who & The What.

McNeal will feature sets by Michael Yeargan and Jake Barton, costumes by Jennifer Moeller, lighting by Donald Holder, sound by Justin Ellington and Beth Lake, and projections by Jake Barton.

Source: Ambito

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