Harold Pinter's 1967 Tony Award-winning Best Play returned to Broadway in a new production under the direction of Tony Award-winner Daniel Sullivan (Rabbit Hole, Proof). Undoubtedly Pinter's most sexually provocative work, THE HOMECOMING is an edgy and compelling tale of lust, seduction and deception, telling the story of a dysfunctional family that welcomes the homecoming of its estranged brother and competes for the attention of his dangerously alluring wife.

This 40^th Anniversary revival of Pinter’s masterpiece featured an all-star cast including Golden Globe Award-winner Ian McShane (“Deadwood”), two-time Tony Award-nominee Raúl Esparza (Company, Taboo), Tony Award-nominee Eve Best (A Moon for the Misbegotten), Academy Award-nominee Michael McKean (Hairspray, The Pajama Game), James Frain (The Count of Monte Cristo, “Tudors”) and Gareth Saxe (Heartbreak House).

Category: Play, Revival, Broadway
Setting: Summer. An old house in North London.
1^st Preview Performance: December 4, 2007
Opening Night Performance: December 16, 2007
Final Performance: April 13, 2008
Total # of Performances: 137

Understudies: Jarlath Conroy (Max, Sam), Francesca Faridany (Ruth), Creighton James (Joey, Lenny, Teddy).

Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Philip J. Smith: President; Robert E. Wankel: Executive Vice President)

Produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Jam Theatricals, Ergo Entertainment, Barbara Freitag, Buddy Freitag, Michael Gardner, Herbert Goldsmith Productions, Inc., Terry E. Schnuck, Harold Thau, Michael Filerman, Lynne Peyser, Ronald Frankel and David Jaroslawicz; Produced in association with Love Bunny Entertainment; Assistant Producer: Mark Barber and Ben West

Written by Harold Pinter

Directed by Daniel Sullivan; Assistant Director: Joshua Brody

Scenic Design by Eugene Lee; Costume Design by Jess Goldstein; Lighting Design by Kenneth Posner; Sound Design by John Gromada; Associate Scenic Design: Nick Francone and Edward Pierce; Assistant Scenic Design: Tristan Jeffers; Associate Costume Design: Anne Kenney; Associate Lighting Design: Aaron Spivey; Associate Sound Design: Christopher Cronin; Assistant Sound Design: Bridget O'Connor

General Manager: Albert Poland; Company Manager: Daniel Kuney

Production Stage Manager: Roy Harris; Technical Supervisor: Hudson Theatrical Associates and Neil A. Mazzella; Stage Manager: Denise Yaney; Associate Tech. Suprvr: Sam Ellis

Press Representative: Jeffrey Richards Associates and Irene Gandy; Casting: Telsey + Company; Marketing: HHC Marketing; Special Promotions: TMG - The Marketing Group; Fight direction by Rick Sordelet; Dialect Coach: Liz Smith; Advertising: Serino Coyne, Inc.; Photographer: Scott Landis

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“IT REALLY IS THAT GOOD! IAN MCSHANE is dazzling in Harold Pinter’s masterpiece. The fine cast also includes benchmark performances by the remarkable RAUL ESPARZA and EVE BEST, who is an absolute knockout. MICHAEL MCKEAN gives a beautifully calibrated, heartbreaking performance as the proper, dutiful Sam. And the relatively unknown GARETH SAXE and JAMES FRAIN are subperd as the dopey, brawny Joey and the disdainful, luxorious Teddy.”– Ben Brantley, The New York Times

“A CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC THAT PACKS A WALLOP! The marvelous Ian McShane not only exudes a compelling physical bravado, but handles Pinter’s razor-sharp dialogue with the dexterity of a skilled surgeon.”– Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

“SCATHING AND EROTIC! This slippery demon of a power play feels ta least as brash and twice as unsettling as any fresh vivisection of what our pious times call family values.”– Linda Winer, Newsday

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IAN McSHANE (Max) The Homecoming marks both the 40th anniversary of the Pinter play and McShane's debut on Broadway in The Promise. Other theatre credits include the original staging of Joe Orton's Loot, The Big Knife, Pinter's Betrayal and John Osbourne's Inadmissible Evidence, the last two winning him LA Critics Awards for Best Actor. He made his musical theatre debut as Daryl van Horne in the original West End production of The Witches of Eastwick. McShane was 'Mick' in Pinter's television production The Caretaker which won a best International Program Emmy. McShane also produced, directed and starred in the BBC-TV series Lovejoy. His riveting and critically acclaimed performance as Al Swearengen in HBO's “Deadwood” earned Emmy and SAG Award nominations while capturing the highly coveted Golden Globe and Television Critics Awards for Best Actor. McShane has appeared in over 40 films including Sexy Beast, Nine Lives, Villain, The Battle of Britain, The Last of Sheila and Scoop. Current film projects include Case 39 with Renee Zellweger and Death Race. McShane's versatile voice can be heard in Shrek the Third and the upcoming Kung Fu Panda, Coraline and The Golden Compass. He was born in Blackburn, England, the son of Irene and Harry McShane, an ex Manchester United soccer player. McShane is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. A father and grandfather, he is married to Gwen Humble McShane.

RAÚL ESPARZA (Lenny) Broadway: Company (Tony nom.; Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle Awards) Taboo (Tony nom.; Drama Desk Award, Best Featured Actor), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cabaret, The Rocky Horror Show (Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: The Normal Heart; Comedians; tick, tick... BOOM! (Obie Award, Drama Desk nom.). National tour: Evita (Joseph Jefferson nom.). Regional: Company (Cincinnati Playhouse); Sunday in the Park With George (Helen Hayes nom.) and Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration); Slaughterhouse-Five and Fur (Steppenwolf); Cry, the Beloved Country, Richard II and A Christmas Carol (Goodman Theatre); The Washington-Sarajevo Talks (Victory Gardens); Arcadia and What the Butler Saw (Meadowbrook Theatre); Messiah (National Jewish Theater); Grease (Drury Lane Oakbrook); Mixed Blessings (Coconut Grove Playhouse). HOLA José Ferrer Acting Award. 2006 Sundance Theatre Lab. Film: Sidney Lumet’s Find Me Guilty. 

EVE BEST (Ruth) received a Tony and Olivier nominations as well as Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards for her performance as Josie in the Old Vic Theatre production of A Moon for the Misbegotten. Other theatre includes Hedda Gabler (Almeida; Best Actress Critics’ Circle Awards); Mourning Becomes Electra (National Theatre; Best Actress, Critics’ Circle Award); Three Sisters (National Theatre); The Coast of Utopia (National Theatre); The Misanthrope (Chichester Festival Theatre); Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Heires (National Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (National Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Young Vic; Outstanding Newcomer, Evening Standard Award; Most Promising Newcomer, Critics’ Circle Award). Television includes “Prime Suspect”, “Vital Signs”, “Inspector Lynley Mysteries”, “Waking the Dead”, “Lie with Me”, “Shackleton”.

MICHAEL McKEAN (Sam) Broadway: The Pajama Game, Accomplice (Theatre World Award), Hairspray. Off-Broadway: Woody Allen’s A Second Hand Memory. London: Love Song. TV: Series regular on “Laverne & Shirley,” “Dream On,” “Sessions,” “Tracy Takes On,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Primetime Glick.” Guest appearances include “Friends,” “The X Files,” “The Simpsons,” “Law & Order,” “Smallville,” “Alias,” “Boston Legal.” Film: This is Spinal Tap (also co-wrote), Clue, Coneheads, The Brady Bunch Movie, True Crime, Jack, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, Joshua, The Grand, and many more. Composed music for several of the above and co-wrote (with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy) the Grammy-winning theme to A Mighty Wind and the Oscar-nominated “A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow,” written with wife Annette O’Toole.

JAMES FRAIN (Teddy) will be making his Broadway debut in The Homecoming. He is currently appearing as Thomas Cromwell in the television series “The Tudors.” London theatre credits include Christopher Shinn's Other People for the Royal Court, Edmond in King Lear for the Almeida, Hastings in She Stoops to Conquer for The Peter Hall Company, Nick Dear's Zenobia for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Film credits include: Shadowlands, Elizabeth, Hilary and Jackie, The Count of Monte Cristo, Sunshine, Where the Heart Is, Titus. Television includes: “Prime Suspect 3,” “Armadillo” (A&E), “Path to War” (HBO), “The Closer,” “24,” “Medium,” “Numb3rs,” “The Mill on the Floss,” “The Buccaneers,” Macbeth in “Macbeth on the Estate,” (all for BBC TV) Iago in Othello and Claudius in Measure for Measure (Radio 4).

HAROLD PINTER (Playwright)  Born 10 October 1930 in East London. Plays in chronological order are The Room; The Birthday Party; The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache; The Hothouse; The Caretaker; A Night Out; Night School; The Dwarfs; The Collection; The Lover; Tea Party; The Homecoming; The Basement; Landscape; Silence; Old Times; Monologue; No Man’s Land; Betrayal; Other Places, comprising Family Voices, Victoria Station and A King of Alaska; One for the Road; Mountain Language; Party Time; Moonlight; Ashes to Ashes; Celebration. Screenplays: The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater; The Quiller Memorandum; Accident; The Go-Between; Langrishe; Go Down; The Last Tycoon; A la Recherche du Temps Perdu; The French Lieutenant’s Woman; Turtle Diary; Reunion; The Heat of the Day; The Handmaid’s Tale; The Comfort of Strangers; The Trial, Sleuth.

DANIEL SULLIVAN (Director) Broadway: Prelude to a Kiss, Rabbit Hole, Julius Caesar; Brooklyn Boy; Sight Unseen; Retreat From Moscow; Morning’s at Seven; Proof; Major Barbara; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Ah, Wilderness!; An American Daughter; The Sisters Rosensweig; Conversations With My Father; The Heidi Chronicles; and I’m Not Rappaport. Off-Broadway credits include Stuff Happens, Third, Intimate Apparel, Dinner With Friends, Ten Unknowns, Ancestral Voices, Spinning Into Butter, Far East, Substance of Fire, Psychopathia Sexualis, A Fair Country and An American Clock. From 1981 to 1997, Mr. Sullivan served as artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre, where he directed more than 60 productions and established a New Play Program. Mr. Sullivan’s film and television credits include The Substance of Fire and “Far East.” He is the Swanlund Professor of Theater at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

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