Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut in a new play by Ayad Akhtar.
* Limited Run
Show InformationPreviews: September 5, 2024
Opening: September 30, 2024
Closing: November 24, 2024
Duration: TBA
Group InformationGroup Minimum: 10
CAST
Jacob McNeal: Robert Downey Jr.
CREATIVE STAFF
Written by: Ayad Akhtar
Director: Bartlett Sher
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan & Jake Barton
Costume Designer: Jennifer Moeller
Lighting Designer: Donald Holder
Sound Designer: Justin Ellington & Beth Lake
Projection Designer: Jake Barton
SYNOPSIS
Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Jacob McNeal 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.