PREVIEW

McNeal opened at New York's Lincoln Centre Theatre to mixed reviews on Monday night. It stars Downey Jr. as the title character Jacob McNeal, an author who has just won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His acceptance speech focuses on the challenges of AI and, as we soon learn, McNeal knows the subject first-hand, having dabbled in using it to write one or more of his books. "Robert Downey Jr is in a play about AI that makes no sense," was the headline of the Washington Post's review, while Variety opined that "Robert Downey Jr's Broadway debut is stale and confounding."