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Fresh off winning his first Oscar for his role in Oppenheimer, Robert Downey Jr. is making huge changes in his career. Some of them break trends that he hasn't broken in decades.

This year, Robert Downey Jr. made his return to the small screen after two decades, starring in Max's adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer. However, the changes don't end here. The actor, who has focused on films in the last few decades, will soon return to stage work.

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The Guardian reports that Robert Downey Jr. is set to make his Broadway debut, 40 years after his last stage work. The former MCU actor is choosing another Pulitzer Prize-winning project,...

Robert Downey Jr. will make his his Broadway debut in the lead role of McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, author of the Tony-nominated Junk and the Pulitzer-winner Disgraced.

Downey will play the title character Jacob McNeal in the production staged by Lincoln Center Theater and directed by Bartlett Sher (To Kill A Mockingbird).

McNeal will begin previews Thursday, September 5, and open on Monday, September 30, at Lct’s Vivian Beaumont Theater. The production will play a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, November 24.

Complete casting will be announced at a later date.

The official synopsis: “Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Jacob McNeal is a great writer, one of our greatest, a perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. But McNeal also has an estranged son, a new novel, old axes to grind and an unhealthy fascination with Artificial Intelligence. Pulitzer Prize-winner Ayad Akhtar’s new play is a...