Matthew Broderick is to star in a new production of The Starry Messenger in the West End this year.
He will be joined onstage by Elizabeth McGovern, who played Cora in Downton Abbey and was nominated for an Oscar for Ragtime in 1981.
Opening on May 16 at the Wyndham’s Theatre, Kenneth Lonergan's play follows a New York teacher in the midst of a mid-life crisis who meets a trainee nurse and sees a glimmer of hope. Broderick has already starred in this role when the play ran Off-Broadway in 2009.
Rising to fame with the title character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, he has won two Tony Awards for his stage work in Brighton Beach Memoirs and musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He will be best known to theatre audiences for his part as Leo Bloom in The Producers, reprising the role in the film version.
Sam Yates, whose recent work includes Glengarry Glen Ross starring Christian Slater and The Phlebotomist at the Hampstead Theatre, directs the play.
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