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Robert Downey Jr. to Make Broadway Debut in New Play, ‘McNeal’


Robert Downey Jr. will make his Broadway debut this fall in the new play, "McNeal."

Written by Ayad Akhtar and directed by Bartlett Sher (“To Kill a Mockingbird”), “McNeal” will star Downey as a talented writer who struggles with family issues as he works on his next novel. Downey recently won the first Oscar of his career for Christopher Nolan’s historical epic “Oppenheimer,” in which he played Lewis Strauss. Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize winner for “Disgraced” and has also written the plays “Junk,” “The Who & the What” and “The Invisible Hand.”

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