The Homecoming Revival Now to Open on Bway Dec. 9

The 40th Anniversary revival of Harold Pinter's Tony Award-winning masterpiece The Homecoming, starring Golden Globe Award-winner Ian McShane ("Deadwood"), two-time Tony-nominee Raúl Esparza (Company, Taboo) and Academy Award-nominee Michael McKean (The Pajama Game, Hairspray) - under the direction of Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan (Rabbit Hole, Proof) - will now begin performances on Friday, November 23rd. The production will now open Sunday, December 9th at the Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street) for a 20-week limited engagement thru Sunday, April 13th.

Joining lead producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel are Harold Thau (Spring Awakening, True West), Ronald Frankel (Glengarry Glen Ross, Talk Radio), Barbara Freitag (Legally Blonde, The Drowsy Chaperone), Herb Goldsmith (Glengarry Glen Ross, Jay Johnson: The Two and Only), and Terry E. Schnuck (Spring Awakening, Enchanted April).

"Pinter's most sexually provocative work, The Homecoming is an edgy and compelling tale of lust, betrayal and seduction, telling the story of a dysfunctional family that welcomes the homecoming of its estranged brother and competes for the attention of his dangerously alluring wife," state press materials.

The design team will include Tony Award-winners Eugene Lee (Wicked, Sweeney Todd, Candide), Kenneth Posner (The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray), and Jess Goldstein (The Rivals, Jersey Boys).

Pinter is the Nobel Prize-winning author of such landmark works as The Birthday Party, Betrayal, Old Times, No Man's Land, The Caretaker, The Dumb Waiter, Ashes to Ashes, and Celebration. Pinter has also received two Academy Award nominations for his screenplays to Betrayal and The French Lieutenant's Woman as well as the New York Film Critics' Circle Award for The Servant. His other films include The Pumpkin Eater, Accident, The Comfort of Strangers, and the current screen adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth starring Michael Caine and Jude Law.

Photo of Raul Esparza by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.