Sternhagen Joins Broderick in The Foreigner

Frances Sternhagen will join Matthew Broderick in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Larry Shue's The Foreigner. She will play Betty Meeks, the eccentric widowed proprietor of the Georgia lodge where Broderick's Charlie is taking a vacation.

Sternhagen has spent five decades making her name in the New York theater scene. She has been nominated for seven Tony Awards for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, The Good Doctor, Equus, Angel, On Golden Pond, The Heiress and Morning's at Seven and won Best Featured Actress in a Play Tonys for The Good Doctor and The Heiress. Her other Broadway credits include The Skin of Our Teeth, Viva Madison Avenue!, Great Day in the Morning, The Right Honourable Gentleman, The Cocktail Party, Cock-A-Doodle Dandy, The Playboy of the Western World, All Over, Mary Stuart, Enemies, The Father, Grown Ups, You Can't Take It With You and Home Front. Her off-Broadway credits include Long Day's Journey Into Night, Driving Miss Daisy, Remembrance, A Perfect Ganesh, The Exact Center of the Universe and Talking Heads. She is currently appearing at the Mint Theater in Echoes of the War.

The Foreigner centers on Charlie Baker Broderick, a socially phobic Englishman marooned at a Georgia fishing lodge with his friend, Froggy LeSueur. To avoid interaction with the other guests, Charlie pretends to be a "foreigner" who doesn't speak English. The locals believe this ruse and thus speak freely in front of Charlie, allowing him to discover things he was never meant to know.

The Foreigner, directed by Scott Schwartz, is scheduled to begin performances at off-Broadway's Laura Pels Theatre on October 15 in preparation for a November 7 opening.