Steve Carell Sets Broadway Debut In Upcoming ‘Uncle Vanya’; Alison Pill, Alfred Molina, Anika Noni Rose Also Cast

Greg Evans

14 November 2023 at 10:20 am·3-min read

Steve Carell will make his Broadway debut next spring in the title role of Lincoln Center Theater’s Uncle Vanya, appearing with, among others, Alison Pill as Sonya, Alfred Molina as Alexander Serabryakov and Anika Noni Rose as Yelena.

The production will begin previews Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at LCT’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, opening on Wednesday, April 24. As previously announced, Heidi Schreck (What the Constitution Means to Me) is writing a new translation, and Lila Neugebauer (The Waverly Gallery) will direct.

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Also joining the cast are William Jackson Harper as Astrov, Jayne Houdyshell as Mama Voinitski and Mia Katigbak as Marina. Complete casting will be announced soon.

The synopsis: Sonya (Pill) and her uncle Vanya (Carell) have devoted their lives to managing the family farm in isolation, but when her celebrated, ailing father (Molina) and his charismatic wife (Rose) move in, their lives are upended. In the heat of the summer, the wrong people fall in love, desires and resentments erupt, and the family is forced to reckon with the ghosts of their unlived lives.

Uncle Vanya will have sets by Mimi Lien, costumes by Kaye Voyce, lighting by Lap Chi Chu and Elizabeth Harper, and sound by Mikhail Fiksel and Beth Lake.

Carell, of course, is best known for his eight-year run playing Michael Scott on NBC’s The Office. Other TV credits include The Morning Show, while his many film projects include Asteroid City, Beautiful Boy, The Big Short and Foxcatcher.

Pill’s credits include an upcoming M. Night Shyamalan feature film. TV credits include Hello Tomorrow!, Star Trek: Picard, Them, American Horror Story: Cult, and The Newsroom, among others. She starred on Broadway in the Tony-nominated production of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women directed by Joe Mantello, and was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in The Lieutenant of an Inishmore.

Molina (Raiders of the Lost Ark, among numerous other films) made his Broadway debut in Yasmina Reza’s Art in 1998 and subsequently performed on Broadway as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and Mark Rothko in Red.

Rose won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Caroline, or Change, with additional Broadway credits including A Raisin in the Sun and Cat on A Hot Tin Roof. TV credits include Maid, Little Fires Everywhere, and Showtime’s Let the Right One In.

Harper was recently seen opposite Paul Rudd in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp, and earlier this year appeared on stage in Eboni Booth’s Primary Trust at Roundabout Theatre Company.

Houdyshell’s many Broadway credits include Tony-nominated turns in The Music Man opposite Hugh Jackman and A Doll’s House, Part 2 in 2017. She won a 2016 Tony for The Humans, and on TV recurred in Only Murders in the Building.

Katigbak’s stage credits include The Headlands, Infinite Life, Awake and Sing, Ivo van Hove’s Scenes From a Marriage and Good Person of Szechwan. On TV she appeared in How to Get Away With Murder, Chicago PD and Mysteries of Laura.

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