Breaking News: Three-Time Tony Winner Frank Langella Will Lead THE FATHER on Broadway; Opens in April

Three-time Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Frank Langella returns to Broadway to star in Manhattan Theatre Club's (Lynne Meadow Artistic Director; Barry Grove Executive Producer) American premiere of The Father.

Langella won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Frost/Nixon, a role he created to widespread acclaim at London's Donmar Warhouse, and Tonys for Best Featured Actor in a Play for both Fortune's Fool and Seascape. In addition, he received Tony nominations for Man and Boy, Match, and Dracula. He and director Doug Hughes previously collaborated on A Man for All Seasons.

The Father is the acclaimed new play by Florian Zeller, in a translation by two-time Tony winner Christopher Hampton (Sunset Boulevard, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, God of Carnage), directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt, Outside Mullingar, City of Conversation).

The limited engagement of The Father will begin previews Tuesday, March 22, 2016 for a Tuesday, April 12, 2016 opening night on Broadway at MTC's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street). This new production will be presented as part of Manhattan Theatre Club's 2015-2016 Broadway season.

The Father offers a fascinating look inside the mind of Andre (Frank Langella), a retired dancer living with his adult daughter Anne and her husband. Or is he a retired engineer receiving a visit from Anne who has moved away with her boyfriend? Why do strangers keep turning up in his room? And where has he left his watch?

The Guardian's pick for Best Play of the Year, The Father is the winner of the Molière Award, France's most prestigious honor for a new work of theatre.

A limited-run West End transfer of The Father will be presented this fall at London's Wyndham's Theatre by Theatre Royal Bath Productions and the Tricycle Theatre, following acclaimed debut runs at the Ustinov Studio in Bath and the Tricycle Theatre in London. The Guardian called Florian Zeller's work "an astonishingly unguarded play about the cruelties of love and the limits of patience," and The Telegraph raved about the play as "one of the most acute, absorbing and distressing portraits of dementia I've ever seen." The Evening Standard called The Father "perfectly measured, quietly devastating" and wrote of the playwright, "Florian Zeller is famous in France, yet scarcely known here. That looks sure to change."

Lead support for The Father has been provided by MTC's Producing Fund Partner, Andrew Martin-Weber.

Additional casting, creative team, and other listings information for Manhattan Theatre Club's new production of The Father will be announced in the coming weeks.

Please note that Zeller's play is not related to the August Strindberg play of the same title.

For more information on MTC, please visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

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