Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt will reprise their roles in Simon Stephens’s drama “Heisenberg” when Manhattan Theater Club transfers its production of the show to Broadway this fall, the theater announced on Tuesday. The two-character play, which Manhattan Theater Club mounted last year Off Broadway, is to start previews at the company’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Sept. 30, with opening night scheduled for Oct. 13. Mark Brokaw will again direct.
In his review Ben Brantley called the play, about a woman’s relationship with an older man she kisses in a London train station, “a probing work that considers the multiplicity of alternatives that could shape our lives at every moment.” The production received mostly positive reviews, and extended its run twice. The Broadway production will be part of Manhattan Theater Club’s 2016-17 season that also includes the previously announced New York premiere of “Vietgone,” a new play by Qui Nguyen, and the premiere of “Sell/Buy/Date,” the new play written and performed by Sarah Jones.