MONTAUK
By David Hare
Starring Laura Linney
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
Presented by Manhattan Theatre Club
Produced in association with Chase This Productions and Susan Kelechi Watson.
Opening Spring 2027
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 West 47th Street
Manhattan Theatre Club (Nicki Hunter, Artistic Director and Chris Jennings, Executive Director) is pleased to announce that five-time Tony Award nominee and four-time Emmy Award winner Laura Linney (Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes; My Name is Lucy Barton; Summer, 1976 at MTC) will star in the world premiere of Montauk by three-time Tony Award nominee and two-time Olivier Award winner David Hare (Plenty, Skylight) and directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan (Summer, 1976; Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes; Proof at MTC). The production will open on Broadway at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) in Spring 2027.
Montauk is a visceral portrait of two artists with violently different approaches to art and life. Jared Speight is a stubborn titan of Long Island abstraction when star writer Roxy Margaux first becomes infatuated with his bravado. But over a decade of romantic and career entanglements, their different reasons for making art become painfully clear. Intelligent and intimate, this world premiere asks far-reaching questions about our passions and the sacrifices we make for them.
Linney made early New York stage appearances in MTC’s Beggars in the House of Plenty in 1991 and in the company’s original Off-Broadway production of Sight Unseen in 1992. She later starred in MTC’s Broadway productions ofSight Unseen; Time Stands Still; Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes; My Name is Lucy Barton; and Summer, 1976. Her other Broadway credits include Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Six Degrees of Separation, Honour, Uncle Vanya, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Holiday and The Seagull. Her numerous film credits include her Academy Award-nominated performances in You Can Count on Me, Kinsey, and The Savages. She is the winner of four Emmy Awards for her performances in “Wild Iris,” “John Adams,” “The Big C” and “Frasier.”
David Hare, a two-time Olivier Award winner and three-time Tony Award nominee, returns to Broadway for the first time since the Tony Award-winning revival of Skylight in 2015. His other Broadway plays include Racing Demon, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Blue Room, Amy’s View, The Vertical Hour, and Plenty, among others. He received Academy Award nominations for his screenplays for The Hours and The Reader.
Daniel Sullivan’s credits with MTC include Summer, 1976; Lillian Helman’s The Little Foxes; Time Stands Still; and Sight Unseen, all with Laura Linney, as well as The Nap, Saint Joan, The Country House, The Snow Geese, The Columnist, Lost Lake, Accent on Youth, Good People, Rabbit Hole, After the Night and the Music, Brooklyn Boy, Psycopathia Sexualis, and Proof (Tony Award). His other Broadway credits include I’m Not Rappaport; The Heidi Chronicles; Conversations with My Father; The Sisters Rosensweig; Ah, Wilderness!; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Morning’s at Seven; Julius Caesar; and Glengarry Glen Ross; among others.
Additional casting, creative team, and production details for Montauk will be announced at a later date.