Steve Carell will make his Broadway debut as Uncle Vanya next spring

Steve Carell, the film actor best known for his breakout role as a blundering boss in the NBC comedy “The Office,” will make his Broadway debut in a revival of the Chekhov classic “Uncle Vanya.”

Carell will lead a cast of television, film and stage veterans in the production, which opens April 2 and opens April 24 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, a Broadway home of the nonprofit Lincoln Center Theater.

‘Uncle Vanya’ is a dark Russian drama, first performed in 1899, about a rural family whose bleak but stable routine is disrupted when the property’s long-absent owner, a retired professor, visits with his new, and much younger , woman . The play has been staged and adapted many times – this will be its eleventh production on Broadway – and this iteration will be based on a new translation by Heidi Schreck, whose previous Broadway venture, an autobiographical show called “What the Constitution Means to Me,” is expected to be the most performed play in American theaters this season (not counting Shakespeare’s and Dickens’ plays).

Carell, who played a regional manager on “The Office,” will also play a manager on “Uncle Vanya.” His character is the long-suffering administrator of the estate (and the brother of the professor’s first wife); he oversees the property with a niece, Sonya, who will be played by Alison Pill, who last appeared on Broadway in a revival of ‘Three Tall Women’ and was a Tony Award nominee for ‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore’ . They will be joined by William Jackson Harper, an alumnus of the NBC comedy “The Good Place” who wowed Off Broadway audiences this year with his starring role in “Primary Trust”; he will play Astrov, the local doctor.