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About The Starry Messenger

Hollywood star and multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Matthew Broderick makes his West End debut in The Starry Messenger by Kenneth Lonergan, Academy Award-winning writer of Manchester By The Sea.

Mark Williams is lost. An astronomer at New York City’s Planetarium, he feels a closer connection to the infinite, starry sky than to his job or even to his wife, Anne. Mark doesn’t believe in fate or divine intervention, but the universe has other ideas.

After a chance meeting with Angela, a young single mother, Mark feels starry-eyed. But when a catastrophic event rips through their lives, Mark is forced to re-evaluate his life, his faith and his place in the universe itself.

Starring Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Mel Brooks’ The Producers), and Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey, The Handmaid’s Tale), this bittersweet, comic drama is an unblinking exploration of love, hope and understanding our place in the universe, by one of the most celebrated writers working today.

Run time

2hrs 50 (inc. interval)

Start date

16th May, 2019

End date

10th August, 2019

Categories

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.

More information about The Starry Messenger

Reviving a role he originated in 2009, Tony Award-winner Matthew Broderick (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “The Producers”) makes his West End debut with his delicate and touching performance in Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Starry Messenger.” Broderick plays Mark Williams, the bright but bumbling astronomy professor who is consistently more adept at investigating constellations than navigating conversations. Beleaguered by the numbing routine of daily life and a collapsing marriage, Mark’s spirits are lifted when he meets a nurse who finally seems to understand him – at least for a short while.

When reality is so astutely reflected as it is in Lonergan’s poignant drama, fleeting human connection is not enough to overcome the flaws of human communication. The New York Times says Lonergan has, “a critical mind, an empathetic heart and a musical ear that hears whole lives in sentences.” Each character in this play is drawn in loving and painful detail, revealing the inadequacies of their own attempts to communicate through various blunders and missteps. Ultimately, “The Starry Messenger” reminds us that humans remain staggeringly distant from those we love, but much like with the stars themselves, we’ll never stop trying to reach them.

What to watch for

When “The Starry Messenger” previewed in 2009, Lonergan’s script was reportedly “fuzzy” and the cast didn’t seem to have fully memorized their lines. In classic theatre fashion, however, when the play opened a few weeks later, the rigorously reworked production was critically acclaimed and a New York Times “Critic’s Pick.”

The title of the play comes from a common translation of Galileo’s “Sidereus Nuncius,” the first publication of scientific observation of the stars seen through a telescope. The astonishing conclusion of the pamphlet was the overall discovery that everything is more complex than it appears when examined up close.

Although “The Starry Messenger” at the Wyndham’s Theatre marks Broderick’s debut in the West End, he is considered a legendary Broadway star. He won his first Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play when he was just 21.

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