MONTAUK
By David Hare
Featuring Laura Linney
Directed by Jonathan Kent
Presented by Manhattan Theatre Club
Previews March 30, 2027
Opening April 19, 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 and Olivier Award nominee Jonathan Kent (Broadway: Medea, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Faith Healer, The Height of the Storm at MTC). Montauk begins performances on Tuesday, March 30, 2027, and opens Monday, April 19, 2027, on Broadway at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).
Since his first and most famous show, the abstract painter Jared Speight has known the catastrophe of early success, which has left him both revered and angry, living alone towards the wilder end of Long Island. Roxy Margaux (Linney) is a popular essayist, whose gift for elucidating complicated modern art has sent her books rocketing up the best-seller lists. When Roxy first visits Jared’s studio, the two embark on a relationship which will test both their strategies for survival to the limit. Funny and intelligent, Montauk 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.
Jonathan Kent is an internationally acclaimed English theatre and opera director known for landmark productions in London's West End and on Broadway. As the former joint Artistic Director of the Almeida Theatre from 1990 to 2002, he directed critical hits like Medeastarring Diana Rigg and Hamletstarring Ralph Fiennes on global stages. His major credits also include Gypsy starring Imelda Staunton and Sweeney Todd in London’s West End. On Broadway, his credits include celebrated revivals of Long Day's Journey into Night, Faith Healer, Man of La Mancha, and MTC’s The Height of the Storm. Kent’s prestigious operatic stagings at the Royal Opera House and Glyndebourne further cement his reputation as one of the performing arts' most influential and decorated directors.
Additional casting will be announced at a later date.