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Laura Linney will return to Broadway successful a outpouring 2027 world premiere of David Hare‘s Montauk, nan Manhattan Theatre Club announced today. Daniel Sullivan will direct.
The play will debut adjacent outpouring astatine MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
Also today, MTC announced that Linney has been named arsenic nan non-prof company’s first Artist-in-Residence. This caller position, nan institution said, “reflects a deepening of Linney’s 35-year narration pinch MTC and her ongoing committedness to nan institution arsenic her theatrical home.”
In her caller domiciled arsenic Artist-in-Residence, Linney will proceed to activity connected processing projects for upcoming seasons astatine MTC, arsenic good arsenic participating successful MTC’s acquisition and organization outreach programs.
“Laura Linney is 1 of nan astir versatile actors of our time,” said MTC Artistic Director Nicki Hunter. “Her artistry, intelligence, and generosity make her nan perfect partner for this brand-new inaugural for MTC. We are thrilled to invited her successful this expanded capacity, cementing a committedness to moving together successful nan future, and to collaborate connected David Hare’s Montauk, directed by Daniel Sullivan. We’re proud to beryllium giving this play its world premiere connected Broadway.”
“I could not beryllium much proud to beryllium Manhattan Theatre Club’s first Artist-in-Residence,” Linney said successful a statement. “MTC has been my theatrical location for decades, and I consciousness very honored so to footwear disconnected this caller position.”
MTC describes Montauk arsenic “a visceral image of 2 artists pinch violently different approaches to creation and life. Jared Speight is simply a stubborn titan of Long Island abstraction erstwhile prima writer Roxy Margaux first becomes infatuated pinch his bravado. But complete a decade of romanticist and profession entanglements, their different reasons for making creation go painfully clear. Intelligent and intimate, this world premiere asks far-reaching questions astir our passions and nan sacrifices we make for them.”
Linney is simply a five-time Tony Award nominee and four-time Emmy Award winner, and her MTC credits see Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, My Name is Lucy Barton and Summer, 1976. Hare is simply a three-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Olivier Award victor whose plays see Plenty and Skylight. Tony Award victor Sullivan directed Linney in Summer, 1976 and The Little Foxes.
Additional casting, imaginative team, and accumulation specifications for Montauk will beryllium announced astatine a later date.
