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EXCLUSIVE: Lauren Ambrose (Broadway‘s My Fair Lady, TV’s Six Feet Under) and Tom Riley (Broadway’s Arcadia, Apple TV’s Down Cemetery Road) will lead nan formed of Manhattan Theatre Club‘s accumulation of The Unbelievers, nan Nick Payne play getting its American premiere Off Broadway this fall.
The production, which will statesman performances Tuesday, October 13, astatine New York’s City Center Stage I, will beryllium directed by Knud Adams.
Both Ambrose and Riley will make their MTC debuts pinch The Unbelievers, while Payne returns to nan institution wherever his erstwhile credits see nan American premieres of Constellations starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson successful 2015 and Incognito pinch Geneva Carr, Charlie Cox, Heather Lind and Morgan Spector successful 2016.
Adams, nan head of nan Pulitzer Prize-winning plays English by Sanaz Toosi and Primary Trust by Eboni Booth, makes his MTC debut.
Additional casting and imaginative squad for The Unbelievers will beryllium announced soon. MTC will besides denote further productions and casting for nan 2026-27 play successful coming weeks.
The synopsis: “Faith intends believing successful something. Especially erstwhile it feels impossible. As nan years spell by and nan enigma of nan abrupt disappearance of Miriam (Ambrose) and David’s (Riley) teenage boy remains unsolved, their blended family must fig retired really to spell on, relearning really to unrecorded done nan ups and downs of mean days successful their altered world.”
MTC describes nan play arsenic “poignant and disarmingly funny.”
The Unbelievers joins MTC’s 2026-27 play that includes nan antecedently announced Broadway productions of School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh, Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! and David Hare’s Montauk.
