The Starry Messenger Tickets
Matthew Broderick makes his West End debut in The Starry Messenger at Wyndham's TheatreTo be confirmed.
Performance dates
16 May - 10 August 2019
Run time: 2hr 50min (inc. interval)
Includes interval
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In the vastness of the universe are we all just lonely souls under the same night sky?
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, the stars appear to have aligned. 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.
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Tuesday 16th July 7.30pm will be a captioned performance.Recent Reviews
This was the last performance of the run so the cast was well settled in. For me the production failed in what seemed to be an attempt to say something about the affairs of human life and its meaning in/for the universe. The quality of the acting, though, presented many compelling set-pieces, and I often found myself having that lovely experience of forgetting that I was in a theatre, so absorbed was I in what what going on on the stage. A moving and funny production performed by very gifted actors.
Fantastic performance
Great play, great performance.
watching this performance was such a wonderful experience! I absolutely loved this play, so many laughs and tears. a really beautiful story. I loved the Wyndham theatre also.
Great play good seats
This was a very clever and subtle play, and the performances were great. The subject matter was unusual, not so much in it's portrayal of a mid-life crisis, but it relating the character's disappointment to the smallness of individual humans in the immensity of the universe. Matthew Broderick has a unique acting style. which was perfect for the role. The publicity was a bit misleading, giving equal to billing to Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern, when the former had a much larger role. Rosalind Eleazar was tremendous and I hope that she is in many more productions.
Actors were fabulous. The script was horrendous.
Dissapointing
Very funny and touching. The stage is brilliantly built. Worth seeing!
Lot of unbearable lengths! Much too long!
very enjoyable
Some funny parts, not a great script. Went mainly to see the two stars.
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