Star Wars and Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor is to make his Broadway debut next year in a revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing.

The Roundabout Theatre Company announced that McGregor will play the unhappily-married Henry in the play under the direction of Sam Gold. Previews begin next October at the American Airlines Theatre.

McGregor was last seen on the stage in 2008, starring as Iago opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Othello at London’s Donmar Warehouse.

He will next be seen on screen in John Wells’s film adaptation of Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play August: Osage County opposite Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts.

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