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Robert Downey Jr. To Make Broadway Debut This Fall In Ayad Akhtar’s New Play ‘McNeal’


Robert Downey Jr. will make his his Broadway debut in the lead role of McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar.

Robert Downey Jr. will make his his Broadway debut in the lead role of McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, author of the Tony-nominated Junk and the Pulitzer-winner Disgraced. Downey will play the title character Jacob McNeal in the production staged by Lincoln Center Theater and directed by Bartlett Sher ( To Kill A Mockingbird). 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.”

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