Matthew Broderick to Star in Kenneth Lonergan’s Starry Messenger at Old Globe

Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick will star in the world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan’s The Starry Messenger as part of the 2006-2007 season at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater. The production will be directed by Lonergan, and it will run January 13-February 18. Broderick will play a married university astronomy professor who’s trying to expand his professional life. The actor, currently appearing on Broadway in The Odd Couple, starred in Lonergan’s film You Can Count on Me.

The Old Globe’s mainstage season will also include Hershey Felder’s popular solo show George Gerswhin Alone (September 9-October 22), the perennial holiday favorite Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas (November 18- December 31), Amy Freed’s Restoration Comedy (March 17-April 22), and a revival of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running (May 5-June 10).

The season at the Globe’s smaller Cassius Carter Center Stage will begin with Greg Kotis’s comedy Pig Farm (September 23-October 29), about two married farmers who are struggling to hold on to everything they have. The show is a co-production with the Roundabout Theatre Company, which will premiere the play next month. It has not been decided how much if any of the Roundabout’s cast — John Ellison Conlee, Katie Finneran, Logan Marshall-Green, and Denis O’Hare — will travel to San Diego.

The Carter season will continue with the holiday musical La Pastorela (December 4-23); the world premiere of Itamar Moses’ The Four of Us (February 3-March 11) about the friendship between two writers; Annie Weisman’s comedy Hold Please (March 31-May 6), about the lives of secretaries; and a revival of Edward Albee’s classic drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (May 19-June 23), directed by Richard Seer. For more information, call 619-23-GLOBE.