Rebecca Hall to Make Broadway Debut in MACHINAL at Roundabout Theatre Company; Opens January 2014!

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) has announced that Golden Globe nominee Rebecca Hall will make her Broadway debut as "Young Woman" in a new Broadway production of Machinal, by Sophie Treadwell, directed by Lyndsey Turner.

Machinal will begin previews on Friday, December 20, 2013 and open Thursday, January 16, 2014 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). This will be a limited engagement.

The full cast and creative team will be announced soon.

Inspired by the infamous 1927 murder trial of Ruth Snyder, Machinal is a gripping drama by American journalist and playwright Sophie Treadwell. It's America's Golden Age, a time of happiness, freedom and prosperity - or is it? For the Young Woman (Hall), a stenographer in the industrial, male-dominated world of the 1920s, life is nothing like she hoped it would be. Restless and unfulfilled in a passionless marriage and unwanted motherhood, she finds her only joy in the form of an illicit love affair. But when reality sets in and she must return to her routine existence, she'll go to any lengths to regain her freedom. A groundbreaking work in the landscape of American theatre, Machinal is a riveting look at the danger that can come from a life unlived.

Machinal premiered on Broadway in 1928 featuring a young Clark Gable in his Broadway debut and then in London in 1931 under the title of The Life Machine. The play was revived in 1993 in London featuring Fiona Shaw, Ciarán Hinds, and John Woodvine and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival.

Subscribers get first access to tickets to all Roundabout productions. Tickets for Machinal are currently only available as part of a subscription. Tickets will be available to the general public in Fall 2013.

Roundabout Theatre Company presents a variety of plays, musicals, and new works on its five stages, each of which is specifically designed to enhance the needs of Roundabout's mission. Off-Broadway, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre and Black Box Theatre, with its simple sophisticated design, is perfectly suited to showcasing new plays. The grandeur of its Broadway home on 42nd Street, American Airlines Theatre, sets the ideal stage for the classics. Roundabout's Studio 54 provides an exciting and intimate Broadway venue for its musical and special event productions. The Stephen Sondheim Theatre offers a state of the art LEED certified Broadway theatre in which to stage major large-scale musical revivals. Together these distinctive homes serve to enhance Roundabout's work on each of its stages.

Roundabout Theatre Company's 2012-2013 season features The Big Knife by Clifford Odets, with Bobby Cannavale, directed by Doug Hughes; The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin by Steven Levenson, directed by Scott Ellis.

The 2013-2014 season will include Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy, directed by Lindsay Posner; Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, directed by Sam Gold; Donald Margulies' Dinner with Friends, directed by Pam MacKinnon; Joshua Harmon's Bad Jews, directed by Daniel Aukin and Bekah Brunstetter's newly commissioned play, Cutie and Bear, directed by Evan Cabnet.