Trip Cullman (Playwrights Horizons' recent Assistance) directs the comedy (Weitz's fourth for Second Stage) that also stars Olivia Thirlby ("Being Flynn"), Mark Blum (Lost in Yonkers, We Live Here, After the Revolution), Lisa Emery (Relatively Speaking), Christopher Jackson (In the Heights) and Maureen Sebastian (Arabian Nights at Berkeley Rep and Arena Stage). This is a limited engagement to May 27.
According to Second Stage notes, "At an age when most people are discovering what they want to do with their lives, Porter [Topher Grace] has been married and divorced, earned seven figures as a corporate 'ninja,' and had a nervous breakdown. It's been four years since he's had a job or a date, and he's decided to give life another shot. Lonely, I'm Not is a comic journey that follows Porter as he meets an ambitious young businesswoman [Thirlby] who is overcoming her own obstacles to emotional success."
Read the Playbill magazine interview with Topher Grace.
Blum returns to Second Stage Theatre, where he appeared in the 2004 Uptown production The Triple Happiness and the 2000 mainstage production of The Waverly Gallery; Emery appeared in the Second Stage Uptown production of Sex Lives of Our Parents and Off-Broadway's Distracted (Lortel nomination) and Iron (Obie Award, Lortel nomination) at MTC; Jackson created the role of Benny in In the Heights; Sebastian returns to Second Stage Theatre where she appeared in the 2010 Uptown production of Year Zero; Grace starred in TV's "That '70s Show" and in the film "In Good Company"; Thirlby appears opposite Robert DeNiro and Paul Dano in Weitz's current feature film release "Being Flynn."
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Second Stage's mainstage Tony Kiser Theatre is at 305 West 43rd Street.
For tickets or more information, visit 2ST.com.