Brian Murray and Sam Waterston Will Be Broadway's Old Masters

Tony Award nominees Brian Murray and Sam Waterston will headline the U.S. premiere of Simon Gray’s The Old Masters at the Long Wharf Theatre. The Michael Rudman-helmed production, which is set for a Broadway run in 2011, takes Connecticut's Long Wharf stage January, 2010 through February 13, 2011. Dates and additional details for the Broadway run have not been announced.

The Old Masters made its debut on the London stage in 2004 in a production helmed by famed playwright Harold Pinter. Set in 1937, the show follows the verbal and business sparring of famous art historian Bernard Berenson (Waterston) and notorious art dealer Joseph Deveen (Murray) as they edge toward the explosive final encounter which will come to define their turbulent relationship.

Murray most recently appeared on Broadway in Mary Stuart. A Tony nominee for The Crucible, The Little Foxes and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he has acted in Broadway productions of The Rivals, Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night, Racing Demon, Noises Off, Black Comedy, Sleuth, King Lear and Da. A leading interpreter of Albee, he has appeared Off-Broadway in The Play About the Baby and Beckett/Albee, as well as the Atlantic Theater Company debut of David Mamet’s Keep Your Pantheon.

Waterston was nominated for a Tony in 1994 for his performance in the revival of Abe Lincoln in Illinois. Additional Broadway credits include A Walk in the Woods, Benefactors, Lunch Hour and A Doll's House. Off-Broadway performances include Much Ado About Nothing, Love Letter, Three Sisters and Chez Nous, as well as Measure for Measure and Much Ado About Nothing at The Delecorte Theatre. Waterson is best known as Jack McCoy on the TV series Law and Order and Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. He was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award in 1985 for the film The Killing Fields.