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Matthew Broderick Cast in Bway-Bound Lonergan Play The Starry Messenger

By: Mar. 10, 2006
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According to Variety, Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick has been tapped to star in Kenneth Lonergan's new Broadway-bound play The Starry Messenger.

The play would come to Broadway in April of 2007, with the theatre, dates and other casting to be announced. Roger Berlind, Carole Shorenstein Hays, Kim Parker, Daryl Roth and Scott Rudin will produce the new play by the author of This Is Our Youth and Lobby Hero. Lonergan will also direct. According to a New York Times piece, the play "tells the story of an astronomy teacher (Broderick) at the Hayden Planetarium who is trying to divine the secrets of the universe and marriage."

Lonergan's 2000 film You Can Count On Me also featured Broderick alongside Laura Linney. The playwright and filmmaker's other movie credits include writing some or all of Gangs of New York, Analyze This and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Margaret, his next film to be released, stars Broderick, Anna Paquin, Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo.

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Broderick is currently appearing opposite Nathan Lane in the smash revival of The Odd Couple, and was seen in the recent film version of The Producers. In the latter, he once again starred opposite Lane and recreated his Tony-nominated performance as Leo Bloom. Broderick's Broadway credits include Taller Than a Dwarf, Night Must Fall and Biloxi Blues. He received a Tony for his role in the 1995 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and for 1983's Brighton Beach Memoirs. He appeared off-Broadway in The Foreigner, and other off-Broadway credits include The Widow Clare and Torch Song Trilogy. Broderick's other screen credits include The Stepford Wives, the TV movie musical of The Music Man, Torch Song Trilogy, Biloxi Blues, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Lion King.








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