Tickets are now available for three upcoming Roundabout Theatre Company productions: Marvin’s Room, Napoli, Brooklyn and On the Exhale.
Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room will make its Broadway premiere next year at the American Airlines Theatre. Directed by Anne Kauffman, the production will run from June 8, 2017 through August 27, with opening night set for June 29.
Marvin’s Room follows estranged sisters Lee and Bessie, who have never seen eye to eye. Lee is a single mother who's been busy raising her troubled teenage son, Hank. Bessie's got her hands full with their elderly father and his soap opera-obsessed sister. When Bessie is diagnosed with leukemia, the two women reunite for the first time in 18 years.
Gordon Edelstein will direct Napoli, Brooklyn, an RTC commission by Meghan Kenedy. Performances will begin on June 9 at the Laura Pels Theatre, where it is scheduled to run through September 3. Opening night is set for June 27.
Napoli, Brooklyn tells the story of the women of the Muscolino family, who live under the temper of their husbands and father in the 1960s. When a tragedy rocks their Brooklyn neighborhood, the women fight to find and hold on to their voices and a life beyond their four walls.
As previously announced, Tony nominee Marin Ireland will headline Martín Zimmerman’s On the Exhale. Performances will begin in the Black Box space at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre on February 7 and run through April 2. Opening night is set for February 28.
In On the Exhale, Ireland plays a liberal college professor who finds herself inexplicably drawn to the very weapon used to perpetrate the crime—and to the irresistible feeling of power that comes from holding life and death in her hands. Peering down the barrel of a uniquely American crisis, she begins to suspect that when it comes to gun violence, we’re all part of the problem.
Additional casting and design team for the productions will be announced at a later date.