Summer 1976Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn’s new play, starring Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht, has been extended two weeks ahead of its Broadway premiere April 25 at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
The Manhattan Theater Club production, currently in previews and scheduled to open on April 25th, will now run through Saturday, June 10th. The world premiere production was originally scheduled to close on May 28.
Directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan (ProofLilian Hellmans The little foxes), Summer 1976 follows an unlikely friendship over the course of a fateful summer, starring Linney as Diana, “a deeply iconoclastic artist and single mother” and Hecht as Alice, “a free-spirited but naive young housewife”. As the bicentennial celebrations take place across the country, the two young Ohio women deal with motherhood, ambition, intimacy and independence.
Source: Deadline
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