Jesse Eisenberg, Vanessa Redgrave to Star in Eisenberg’s New Play, ‘The Revisionist’

Jesse Eisenberg returns to the stage with Vanessa Redgrave in the Rattlestick Playwrights  Theater's production of a new play written by the Oscar-nominated star of "The Social Network"

Jesse Eisenberg and Vanessa Redgrave will star in Eisenberg's new off-Broadway play "The Revisionist," beginning in February 2013.

Getty ImagesKip Fagan will stage the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's production, which begins its limited run Feb. 6, 2013, at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. The play is set to open Feb. 21 and run through March 31, 2013.

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"The Revisionist" revolves around a science-fiction writer (Eisenberg) with a paralyzing case of writer's block who travels to Poland, where he connects with his 75-year-old second cousin Maria (Redgrave), a Holocaust survivor looking to get to know her distant American family.

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