ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY

Announces

JOSH HAMILTON

Will Join

EWAN McGREGOR      MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

and

CYNTHIA NIXON

in

THE REAL THING

By TOM STOPPARD

Directed by SAM GOLD

Previews begin October 2, 2014
Official opening October 30, 2014
Limited engagement on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre

“Mr. Stoppard's most moving play, but also the most bracing play that anyone has written about love and marriage in years.” – Frank Rich, New York Times

MCC THEATER COMPLETES ITS UPCOMING FOUR-PLAY SEASON
WITH ADDITION OF TWO EXCITING PREMIERES: 

MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL SET TO STAR IN THE
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE OF

THE VILLAGE BIKE

BY PENELOPE SKINNER, DIRECTED BY SAM GOLD

OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE
OF ROBERT ASKINS’

HAND TO GOD

DIRECTED BY MORITZ VON STUELPNAGEL

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED PRODUCTIONS OF THE MCC 2013-14 SEASON:

BROADWAY CO-PRODUCTION WITH MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB OF
THE SNOW GEESE STARRING MARY LOUISE-PARKER

AND

THE OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE OF
SMALL ENGINE REPAIR

New York, NY – MCC THEATER (Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) is pleased to announce the addition of Penelope Skinner’s play The Village Bike  and Robert Askins’ Hand to God to its 2013-14 Season, which will now feature four new productions in total.  The North American premiere of Penelope Skinner’s The Village Bike, directed by Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation), will star Academy Award® nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart, The Dark Knight) and be performed at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (121 Christopher Street, NYC) beginning May 21, 2014 with an official opening on June 9, 2014.  The Off-Broadway premiere of Robert Askins’ Hand to God, directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel and starring Steven Boyer (Modern Terrorism, The Wolf of Wall Street), will also play the Lucille Lortel Theatre, beginning on February 20, 2014 with an official opening on March 11, 2014.  Hand to God originally debuted at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in 2011-2012 where it went on to an acclaimed, extended run.  These plays join the previously announced Broadway premiere of the Mary-Louise Parker-starrer The Snow Geese by MCC alum Sharr White, which is a co-production with Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) set for October 1 through December 15, 2013 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre; and the New York premiere of John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair, set for October 30 through December 8, 2013 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.