The cast is set for the upcoming Broadway premiere of Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime. Second Stage Theater is bringing the 2015 Pulitzer finalist work to its Helen Hayes Theater beginning November 20, ahead of a December 8 opening night.
Academy Award nominee June Squibb (Eleanor the Great) will star in the title role, sharing the stage with Tony Award winners Danny Burstein and Cynthia Nixon, and Christopher Lowell. Casting is by Daniel Swee.
Squibb, an Oscar nominee for her 2013 performance in Nebraska, was last seen on Broadway as Joe in Waitress, but has Broadway credits dating all the way back to the 1959 original Broadway run of Gypsy, during which she was a replacement Electra. She's also been on the Main Stem in The Happy Time, Gorey Stories, and Sacrilege.
The work, about a woman who uses a computer holographic system to bring back AI versions of the deceased, debuted at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles in 2014, and came to Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons in 2015. Anne Kauffman, who directed the Playwrights staging, is back to direct its Broadway bow, which will also mark the Broadway debut of Harrison. The work was a 2015 Pulitzer finalist, and got a screen version featuring its original stage star, Lois Smith, in 2017.
Second Stage's production will feature scenic design by Lee Jellinek, costume design by Márion Talán de la Rosa, lighting design by Ben Stanton, and sound design and original music by Daniel Kluger.
The 2025-2026 Second Stage season also includes a Broadway bow for Gina Gionfriddo's 2008 comedy Becky Shaw, and Off-Broadway runs for Talene Monahon's Meet the Cartozians, Aya Ogawa's Meat Suit, or a shitshow of motherhood, and Adam Bock's 2005 play The Receptionist.
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