Adams Dishes with Broadway Bound Broderick in NY POST

The New York Post's gossip legend Cindy Adams talks with stage and screen favorite Matthew Broderick in today's New York Post. The two New Yorkers talk television, theatre and toothaches, the Broadway bound Broderick also discusses living in the city and his role in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of The Philanthropist.

Being a New Yorker is important to Broderick, even thought the television industry makes him offers to join many series out there in sunny Los Angeles he tells the New York Post, "With children that's difficult because I'd have to be here. TV is not an appeal because much of it shoots in La. I'm a New Yorker since I'm born. It's the best alternative for my life. Out there you're just staring at your wife and child. New York forces you to interact. My father used to say that in New York just buying a newspaper you get three conversations. I don't see anybody in my family picking up and moving to L.A." To read the full Post article click here.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is proud to announce Tony® Award winner Matthew Broderick as "Philip" in a new Broadway production of The Philanthropist by Tony® and Academy Award winner Christopher Hampton, directed by David Grindley.

The Philanthropist will begin previews on April 10th, 2009 and open officially on April 26th, 2009 at the American Airlines Theatre on Broadway (227 West 42nd Street). This will be a limited engagement.

A two-time Tony award-winning stage actor and instantly recognizable film presence, Matthew Broderick was most recently seen in the feature films Finding Amanda, alongside Brittany Snow, and Diminished Capacity, opposite Alan Alda and Virginia Madsen. In the spring of 2008, he was also on the big screen in Helen Hunt's directorial debut Then She Found Me. Upcoming work includes Margaret with Matt Damon and Mark Ruffalo, and Universal's animated adventure The Tale of Despereaux, in which he voices the title character. He most recently wrapped production on Wonderful World, opposite Sanaa Lathan. In 2005 he starred in the blockbuster Broadway production of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple on Broadway. He also starred in the hit off-Broadway play, The Foreigner, at the Roundabout Theatre. Also in 2005, he starred in the feature film version of The Producers, reprising the Tony-nominated performance he gave on Broadway in this smash hit musical. Broderick starred in the critically acclaimed You Can Count on Me opposite Laura Linney. He also earned considerable acclaim starring opposite Reese Witherspoon in the critically lauded and Independent Spirit Award winning political satire Election, directed by Alexander Payne. A New York native, he made his professional stage debut opposite his father, James Broderick, at age 17 in the production of On Valentine's Day. His performance in Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy, won him the Outer Critic's Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor. Broderick won his first Tony Award for Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, and starred in the play's sequel, Biloxi Blues. He won his second Tony for his role as J. Pierrepont Finch, in the Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying. Broderick has also starred in such blockbuster movies as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Glory, War Games, and Disney's The Lion King, as the adult voice of Simba. Additional credits include Bee Movie, Godzilla, Addicted to Love, The Cable Guy, Inspector Gadget, Deck the Halls, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Max Dugan Returns, Project X, Family Business, The Freshman, The Night We Never Met, The Last Shot and The Stepford Wives. In addition to his stage, screen and Broadway credits, he has also appeared in the Showtime film Master Harold...and the Boys and received an Emmy nomination for the TNT production of David Mamet's A Life in the Theater in which he starred opposite Jack Lemmon. Broderick resides in New York with his wife Sarah Jessica Parker and son, James Wilkie Broderick.

 

 

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