MTC Announces Jessica Hecht Joining Laura Linney in 'Summer, 1976'

Manhattan Theatre Club
Announces

Tony Award & Emmy Award Nominee
Jessica Hecht
Will Join Four-Time Emmy Winner
& Five-Time Tony Award Nominee
Laura Linney

In the World Premiere of SUMMER, 1976
By Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn
Directed by Tony Award Winner Daniel Sullivan

Previews begin Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Opening Tuesday, April 25, 2023
At MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway

Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) are pleased to announce that Tony Award® & Emmy Award® Nominee Jessica Hecht (The Assembled Parties, “Friends”) joins Tony Award & Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney (My Name is Lucy Barton, “Ozark”) in the world premiere of Summer, 1976 written by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn (Proof, The Columnist) and directed by Tony winner Daniel Sullivan (Proof, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes).

Four-time Emmy Award winner & Academy Award nominee Laura Linney (My Name Is Lucy Barton, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes) and Tony nominee Jessica Hecht (The Assembled Parties) return to Broadway in a new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and fellow MTC alum David Auburn (Proof, The Columnist). This deeply moving, insightful piece is about connection, memories, and the small moments that can change the course of our lives. Over one fateful summer, an unlikely friendship develops between Diana (Linney), a fiercely iconoclastic artist and single mom, and Alice (Hecht), a free-spirited yet naive young housewife. As the Bicentennial is celebrated across the country, these two young women in Ohio navigate motherhood, ambition, and intimacy, and help each other discover their own independence. Directing is Tony winner Daniel Sullivan (Proof, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes).

Summer, 1976 was commissioned by MTC through the Bank of America New Play Program. Production support is provided by the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater.

Summer, 1976 will begin previews on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 ahead of a Tuesday, April 25, 2023 Opening Night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street).

The creative team for Summer, 1976 will be announced soon.

The 2022-23 season marks Lynne Meadow’s 50th Anniversary as Artistic Director of Manhattan Theatre Club. Meadow was joined by Executive Producer Barry Grove in her third season, and together they have helmed MTC for 48 years. MTC’s mission, which Meadow created in 1972 and has implemented since, is to develop and present new work in a dynamic, supportive environment; to identify and collaborate with the most exciting new as well as accomplished artists; and to produce a diverse repertoire of innovative, entertaining, and thought-provoking plays and musicals by American and international playwrights. Over five decades, MTC has grown from a small off-off-Broadway showcase into one of the country’s most prestigious and award-winning theatre companies, creating approximately 600 world, American, New York and Broadway premieres. Our productions have earned 7 Pulitzer Prizes, 28 Tony Awards, 50 Drama Desk Awards and 49 Obie Awards amongst many other honors. Our Broadway home is the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (261 West 47th Street) and our two Off-Broadway theatres are at New York City Center (131 West 55th Street). MTC is an anti-racist organization that respects and honors all voices, and upholds the values of community and equity. For more information, please visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com.

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TICKETING INFORMATION
Single ticket information for Summer, 1976 will go on sale in January 2023.