The New York Times
Laura Linney to Return to Broadway in New David Hare Play
Montauk
by David Hare
directed by Jonathan Kent
featuring Laura Linney
ON BROADWAY AT THE
SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE
Performances begin Spring 2027
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A world premiere play by two-time Olivier Award winner David Hare and directed by Olivier and Tony Award nominee Jonathan Kent, Montauk will star four-time Emmy Award winner Laura Linney.
Since his first and most famous show, the abstract painter Jared Speight has known the catastrophe of early success, which has left him both revered and angry, living alone towards the wilder end of Long Island. Roxy Margaux (Linney) is a popular essayist, whose gift for elucidating complicated modern art has sent her books rocketing up the best-seller lists. When Roxy first visits Jared’s studio, the two embark on a relationship which will test both their strategies for survival to the limit. Funny and intelligent, Montauk asks far-reaching questions about our passions and the sacrifices we make for them.
Cast
Laura Linney
Roxy Margaux
In 2018, Laura made her London theatre debut in Richard Eyre’s My Name Is Lucy Barton, the stage play adapted from the Elizabeth Strout novel of the same name, which then made its Broadway debut at Manhattan Theatre Club to rave reviews and her Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. MTC Broadway credits include Summer, 1976; Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes (Tony nomination); Time Stands Still (Tony nomination); and Sight Unseen (Tony nomination). Other Broadway credits include Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, directed by Richard Eyre opposite Liam Neeson; Six Degrees of Separation; Honour; Uncle Vanya; Les Liaisons, Dangereuses; Holiday; and The Seagull. For her role as Wendy Byrde in “Ozark” on Netflix, starring opposite Jason Bateman, she received her seventh Emmy Award nomination. Laura’s numerous film credits include The Miracle Club, Suncoast, Falling, The Roads Not Taken, The Dinner, Nocturnal Animals, Sully, Genius, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, You Can Count On Me, Kinsey, The Savages, The Fifth Estate, Hyde Park On Hudson, The Squid and The Whale, Mystic River, Absolute Power, The Truman Show, Primal Fear, The Mothman Prophecies, Love Actually, P.S., The House of Mirth, The Details and Congo, among many others. Laura starred in and served as an executive producer for the Showtime series “The Big C” for four seasons, for which she won a few awards. She also won multiple awards for her portrayal of Abigail Adams in the HBO miniseries “John Adams” directed by Tom Hooper. Laura served as an executive producer and starred in the highly anticipated Netflix revival of “Tales of the City.” She appeared as Kelsey Grammer’s final girlfriend in the last six episodes of “Frasier,” was directed by Stanley Donen in Love Letters, and starred opposite Joanne Woodward in Blind Spot. Linney has been nominated three times for an Academy Award, five times for a Tony Award, eight times for a SAG Award, once for a BAFTA Award and seven times for a Golden Globe. She has won one Screen Actors Guild Award, one National Board of Review Award, two Golden Globes and four Emmy Awards. She holds two honorary Doctorates from her alma maters, Brown University and The Juilliard School.
Laura Linney
Roxy Margaux
Creative
David Hare
Playwright
David Hare is one of the UK’s most internationally performed playwrights. Nineteen of his plays have been seen on and off-Broadway, including Plenty, The Secret Rapture, Via Dolorosa, Amy’s View, Stuff Happens, The Vertical Hour, and the Tony-winning Skylight. He has twice been nominated for Oscars for his screenplays for The Hours and The Reader. In the last decade he has written three original television series: “The Worricker Trilogy,” which starred Bill Nighy; “Collateral,” with Carey Mulligan; and “Roadkill,” with Hugh Laurie. In 1998, he was knighted for services to the British theatre.
Daniel Sullivan
Director
Manhattan Theatre Club credits include Summer, 1976; The Nap; Saint Joan; Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes; The Country House; The Snow Geese; The Columnist; Lost Lake; Accent on Youth; Good People; Time Stands Still; Rabbit Hole; After the Night and the Music; Brooklyn Boy; Sight Unseen; Psycopathia Sexualis; and Proof. Among other Broadway credits are Stories By Heart; Orphans; Glengarry Glen Ross; The Homecoming; Prelude to a Kiss; Julius Caesar; I’m Not Rappaport; Morning’s at Seven; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Ah, Wilderness!; The Sisters Rosensweig; Conversations with my Father; and The Heidi Chronicles. For the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, he has directed Coriolanus, Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, King Lear, Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Among his Off-Broadway credits are If I Forget, The Night Watcher, Intimate Apparel, Far East, Spinning into Butter, Stuff Happens, Dinner with Friends, and The Substance of Fire. From 1981 to 1997, he served as artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre. Sullivan served as Swanlund Professor in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Illinois, Urbana for 25 years.
David Hare
Playwright
Daniel Sullivan
Director