June Squibb will star in the title role of Marjorie Prime on Broadway.
She leads a cast featuring Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein and Christopher Lowell. The play, written by Jordan Harrison and directed by Anne Kauffman, is set to begin previews Nov. 20 at the Hayes Theater and open Dec. 8.
Marjorie Prime is about an older woman spending her final days with a hologram of her dead husband and piecing together their life, with contributions from her family members, which results in varying narratives.
The play premiered Off-Broadway in 2015, and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. It was adapted into a 2017 film starring Jon Hamm, Tim Robbins, Geena Davis and Lois Smith. This marks Harrison’s Broadway debut.
Squibb, an Oscar nominee for her role in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, returns to Broadway after last appearing in Waitress in 2018. Her recent film credits include the titular role in Thelma, Inside Out 2, and the upcoming Eleanor the Great, directed by Scarlett Johansson. She made her Broadway debut in 1959, in the original cast of Gypsy, where she played the stripper Electra, opposite Ethel Merman.
Nixon, known for her role as Miranda on Sex and the City, made her Broadway debut at 14 in The Philadelphia Story and has appeared in 13 plays on Broadway, including her Tony Award-winning roles in David Lindsay-Abaire’s Rabbit Hole and Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes. Recent stage work includes Jordan Seavey’s The Seven Year Disappear, where she played eight characters.
Burstein comes to the play after finishing up his Tony-nominated run in Gypsy, opposite Audra McDonald. He is a Tony Award winner for his role as Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! and has appeared in 20 Broadway shows including My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, Follies, Women on the Verge…, South Pacific, The Drowsy Chaperone and more.
Lowell returns to Second Stage after making his Broadway debut in last season’s production of Leslye Headland’s Cult of Love.
Second Stage Theater’s 2025-26 season will also feature the Broadway debut of playwright Gina Gionfriddo, with her play Becky Shaw, which was also a Pulitzer-Prize finalist. Trip Cullman directs. This is the first season programmed by Second Stage’s new artistic director Evan Cabnet.