 Acclaimed film and stage star Matthew Broderick returns to the New York stage in Larry Shue's comedy The Foreigner after recently completing a heralded and record-breaking return engagement in Mel Brook’s Tony® Award winning The Producers, for which he received his third Tony nomination. Broderick received Tony® Awards for his performances in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! and Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. Broderick will star in the much anticipated film version of Mel Brook’s The Producers opposite Nathan Lane in 2005.
The Foreigner features Frances Sternhagen, who recently appeared in Talking Heads Off Broadway and Morning's at Seven on Broadway, for which she received a Tony nomination. In 2000, she starred Off-Broadway in The Exact Center of the Universe. Nominated seven times for a Tony Award, she has received it twice, for The Good Doctor and The Heiress.
The cast also includes Kevin Cahoon (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), Mary Catherine Garrison (Assassins), Neal Huff (Take Me Out), Byron Jennings (The Man Who Came to Dinner) and Lee Tergesen (HBO's "OZ").
The Foreigner tells the uproariously farcical tale of a lovable but socially inept Brit who escapes his stressful life by booking a holiday in backwoods U.S.A. He desperately tries to avoid the local yokels by posing as a foreigner who doesn’t understand a word of English. But the plan hilariously backfires when he becomes the perfect person with whom all share their deepest secrets and schemes.
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