Press
How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/theater/robert-downey-jr-mcneal-ayad-akhtar.html
‘A New But Not Entirely Different Language’: Susan Downey and Robert Downey Jr. on Their First Broadway Production
https://www.vogue.com/article/susan-and-robert-downey-jr-broadway-production
Robert Downey Jr.,Ayad Akhtar and Bartlett Sher on 'Truthful Lies' in AI, Art and Politics
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5EVu4ms1F11FR2jQtoWnI0?si=2a0aba33451a49ca&nd=1&dlsi=db37f6a903054a32
Melora Hardin talks Broadway play McNEAL
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/gma3/video/melora-hardin-talks-broadway-play-mcneal-115474182
The Atlantic on Ayad Akhtar's "Brilliant" New Play
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/mcneal-play-akhtar-downey-artificial-intelligence/679949/
Get a 1st Look at Lincoln Center Theater's McNeal, Starring Robert Downey Jr.
https://playbill.com/article/get-a-1st-look-at-lincoln-center-theaters-mcneal-starring-robert-downey-jr
The McNEAL Company Gets Ready for Broadway
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Video-The-MCNEAL-Company-Gets-Ready-for-Broadway-20240903
Photos: Robert Downey Jr., Melora Hardin, Andrea Martin, More From The Company of McNEAL Meet the Press
https://playbill.com/gallery/photos-company-of-mcneal-meets-the-press
‘Awards Chatter’ Pod: Robert Downey Jr.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/robert-downey-jr-dr-doom-the-sympathizer-broadway-debut-1235979275/
The Broadway Show Meets Robert Downey Jr. and the Cast of McNEAL
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/204606/the-broadway-show-meets-robert-downey-jr-and-the-cast-of-mcneal/
Stars on Broadway This Fall: Robert Downey Jr., Mia Farrow, and More
https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/stars-broadway-fall-2024-robert-downey-jr/
good writers borrow.
great writers steal.
Jacob McNeal (Academy Award® winner Robert Downey Jr.) is a great writer, one of our greatest, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But McNeal also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind and an unhealthy fascination with Artificial Intelligence. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s new play is a startling and wickedly smart examination of the inescapable humanity – and increasing inhumanity – of the stories we tell. Directed by Tony Award® winner Bartlett Sher.