Marjorie Prime, Starring June Squibb, Opens on Broadway December 8 | Playbill

Broadway News Marjorie Prime, Starring June Squibb, Opens on Broadway December 8

Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, and Christopher Lowell co-star in the Broadway bow of Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer finalist play.

June Squibb in Marjorie Prime Joan Marcus

Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime officially opens at the Helen Hayes Theater December 8. The Broadway premiere production of the 2025 Pulitzer finalist play began performances November 20.

Academy Award nominee June Squibb (Eleanor the Great) stars in the title role, sharing the stage with Tony Award winners Danny Burstein and Cynthia Nixon, and Christopher Lowell. Understudies Mike Shapiro, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Kate Hampton, and Barbara Kingsley round out the company. 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. The work was a 2015 Pulitzer finalist, and got a screen version featuring its original stage star, Lois Smith, in 2017.

Anne Kauffman, who directed the Playwrights staging, is back to direct its Broadway bow.  Second Stage's production features 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.

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