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About The Starry Messenger

Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern star in the West End production of The Starry Messenger, written by Manchester by the Sea's Kenneth Lonergan. It will run at Wyndham's Theatre from 16th May 2019, with tickets available now.

The play centres around an astronomy teacher whose life is spiralling away from him: the planetarium he works at is under threat, his marriage is on the rocks, and he's mourning the recent loss of his father. Though things begin to change when he meets a trainee nurse called Angela.

The Starry Messenger is at Wyndham's Theatre from 16th May, with tickets available now.

Matthew Broderick will make his West End debut when reprises the role of Mark after he starred in the play at the off-Broadway venue Theatre Row in 2009. His other stage credits include his Tony Award-winning roles in the play Brighton Beach Memoirs and the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying, as well as his role in Mel Brooks' hit Broadway musical The Producers.

He will be joined in the production by Elizabeth McGovern, who has appeared on stage in London in The Misanthrope at the Young Vic, Dinner With Friends at the Hampstead, and Hurlyburly and Complicit at The Old Vic. Her screen credits include the 1981 film Ragtime, for which she received an Academy Award nomination, Once Upon a Time and The Favour.

Writer Kenneth Lonergan's previous stage plays include the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Waverly Gallery, 1996 play This is Our Youth, and Lobby Hero, which was nominated for the Olivier Award for best play following its run at the Donmar Warehouse.

Sam Yates directs the play. His recent London credits include Glengarry Glen Ross starring Christian Slater at the Playhouse TheatreThe Phlebotomist at the Hampstead Theatre and Murder Ballad at the Arts Theatre.

Run time

2hrs 50 (inc. interval)

Start date

16th May, 2019

End date

10th August, 2019

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The Starry Messenger cast and creative team

By: Kenneth Longeran
Director: Sam Yates
Cast list: Matthew Broderick, Elizabeth McGovern, Helen Barford, Edward Wolstenholme, Jim Norton, Rosalind Eleazar, Joplin Sibtain, Jenny Galloway, Sinead Matthews, Sid Sagar, Greg Baxter, Kerry Bennett

Venue

32-36 Charing Cross Road, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 0DA

Directions

Location: West End
Railway station: Charing Cross
Bus numbers: (Charing Cross Road) 24, 29, 176; (Shaftesbury Avenue) 14, 19, 38
Night bus numbers: (Charing Cross Road) 24, 176, N5, N20, N29, N41, N279; (Shaftesbury Avenue) 14, N19, N38
Car park: St Martin's Lane Hotel (2mins)
Directions from tube: The theatre can be seen opposite the station.

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