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Robert Downey Jr, Andrea Martin and Ruthie Ann Miles Set for LCT’s McNeal
July 29, 2024, 5:31.07 pm ET

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Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr and Tony Award winners Andrea Martin and Ruthie Ann Miles will star in “McNeal,” a new play by Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar, which will begin previews Thursday, September 5 and open on Monday, September 30 at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre. It will play a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, November 24.

The play, to be directed by Bartlett Sher, will also star Brittany Bellizeare, Rafi Gavron, Melora Hardin, and Saisha Talwar.

Downey will play Jacob McNeal, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature who also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind and an unhealthy fascination with Artificial Intelligence. A highly realistic Metahuman Digital Likeness of the actor that will be utilized within the production.

For tickets and information, visit www.lct.org



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