Summer, 1976 at Manhattan Theatre Club — April 4 - May 28, 2023

Summer, 1976

By David Auburn
Directed by Daniel Sullivan
With Laura Linney, Jessica Hecht

ON BROADWAY at the
SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATRE
Begins performances April 4, 2023.

Four-time Emmy Award® winner & Academy Award® nominee Laura Linney (My Name Is Lucy Barton, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes) and Tony Award® 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 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation and the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater.

Pictured: Laura Linney, Photo by Nino Munoz; Jessica Hecht, photo by Deborah Lopez.

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street
(between Broadway & 8th Ave.)