Matthew Broderick set to make West End debut with bittersweet comic-drama

Actor Matthew Broderick is set to make his West End debut in an original play by "Manchester by the Sea" writer-director Kenneth Lonergan. Titled "The Starry Messenger", the play will see Broderick returning to the role of Mark Williams, which he first performed in an off-Broadway production for the New Group in 2009.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the play is described as a "bittersweet comic-drama" that follows an astronomer at New York City's planetarium who grows distant from his job and wife due to a desire to explore his infinite connection to the vastness of the universe. It also features "Downton Abbey" actor Elizabeth McGovern.