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Robert Downey Jr. is set to return to the Avengers movie franchise next year, but first he is making his Broadway debut in a play that explores storytelling and the nature of originality. Downey plays a world-famous writer drawn into the web of Artificial Intelligence in this 90-minute drama by Ayad Akhtar, who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced. Lincoln Center Theater resident director Bartlett Sher helms the world premiere, whose supporting cast comprises Andrea Martin, Melora Hardin, Ruthie Ann Miles, Rafi Gavron, Brittany Bellizeare and Saisha Talwar. In addition to those very human assets, the production boasts what it calls "a highly realistic Metahuman Digital Likeness" of Downey.