Downey Jr. stars as Jacob McNeal, the lead role in “McNeal,” a new play by the Pulitzer-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar.

Robert Downey Jr., on shore leave between being Iron Man, winning an Oscar for Oppenheimer, and then returning to the CGI ...

Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut in "McNeal," a timely head-scratcher that asks big questions about AI ...

McNeal' is supposed to be about AI's effects on literature, but Robert Downey Jr.'s Broadway debut is a confusing garble ...

Slow to grab hold and knotty when it does, Ayad Akhtar’s McNeal, opening tonight and starring Robert Downey Jr. in a ...

In “McNeal” Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut as a writer stealing others’ text via AI for his own works. The tech ...

The “Oppenheimer” star makes his Broadway debut in Ayad Akhtar’s timely new play about a literary lion who gets assistance ...

Robert Downey Jr. makes his Broadway debut playing a writer who succumbs to AI in the world premiere of Ayad Akhtar's "McNeal ...

Ayad Akhtar’s play just opened in a Lincoln Center production that seems disconnected from the audience. Maybe this whole ...

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The tiresome Broadway play “McNeal,” starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center, is about every windbag’s favorite topic — AI.

The star plays an A.I. curious writer who learns he's dying and won the Nobel Prize in Literature on the same day.