Mike Birbiglia to Return to Broadway With a New Show This Fall

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Mike Birbiglia, the comedic storyteller who has mined his experiences with romance, fatherhood and sleep issues for narrative functions, will return to Broadway this fall with a brand new present prompted by swimming.

Birbiglia has been growing the present, referred to as “The Outdated Man & the Pool,” via a collection of performances during the last yr at venues together with Berkeley Repertory Theater in California, Steppenwolf Theater Firm in Chicago and Heart Theater Group in Los Angeles.

The Broadway manufacturing is scheduled to start previews on Oct. 28 and to open on Nov. 13 on the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Heart.

Birbiglia, 44, beforehand appeared on Broadway in his solo present “The New One,” which had a two-month run that started performances in 2018.

“The final present was, in some methods, about delivery, and this present, in some methods, is about loss of life, via the storytelling lens of hitting center age and realizing that our our bodies are slowly in decline,” Birbiglia stated. “Probably the most essential factor about it’s that it’s humorous — it goes to the darkest locations about life and loss of life for hopefully 90 minutes of guffaws, the place on the finish of it folks really feel higher on the way in which out than once they got here in.”

“The Outdated Man & the Pool” is directed by Seth Barrish, a frequent Birbiglia collaborator who additionally directed “The New One,” and consists of contributions from Ira Glass, the “This American Life” host, who govt produced “The New One.”

Birbiglia stated he has felt “euphoric” about returning to in-person performing after the pandemic shutdown, when, he stated, he anxious about the way forward for the shape. “It’s nearly like earlier than the pandemic, leisure was elective, and now it’s important,” he stated.

And why Broadway? “I’ve at all times considered the exhibits as solo performs, someplace between storytelling and theater and comedy,” he stated. “What occurs with Broadway, along with these being among the greatest theaters on the earth bodily and sonically and in all of the technical methods, there are some individuals who solely take note of Broadway, in order that’s significant. It opens up the aperture to extra folks, and that’s the actually the purpose.”

Though Lincoln Heart Theater is a nonprofit group, this present is a business enterprise produced by Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Patrick Catullo and Seaview, a manufacturing firm based by Greg Nobile and Jana Shea.

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