( EW.com ) -- Another `` Harry Potter '' star is coming to Broadway . Rupert Grint , best known for playing Ron Weasley in the blockbuster `` Harry Potter '' film franchise , will make his Broadway debut this fall in Terrence McNally 's starry comedy It 's Only a Play . Grint joins an A-list cast that includes Matthew Broderick , Nathan Lane , Stockard Channing , Megan Mullally , F. Murrary Abraham and newcomer Micah Stock . Jack O'Brien will direct the limited 17-week engagement , which opens at Broadway 's Schoenfeld Theatre on October 9 . The British star will play Frank Finger , the wunderkind director of a new play by an anxious writer ( Broderick ) whose career is on the line as he eagerly awaits the reviews on opening night . As the show roars onward , the playwright passes the time with his TV star best friend ( Lane ) , his producer ( Mullally ) , the show 's leading lady ( Channing ) , an infamous critic ( Abraham ) , and a fresh-faced coat check attendant ( Stock ) . The play first premiered in New York in 1986 at the Manhattan Theatre Club ; the 2014 production is a newly revised adaptation by McNally , the four-time Tony-winning scribe whose recent premiere Mothers and Sons marked his 50th year on Broadway . On the theater acting front , Grint followed up the smashing success of the `` Potter '' films with his West End stage debut in the revival of Jez Butterworth 's Mojo ( alongside Skyfall 's Ben Whishaw and Downton Abbey 's Brendan Coyle ) . Grint 's `` Potter '' co-star Daniel Radcliffe recently returned to Broadway in The Cripple of Inishmaan , but their stints on the New York stage wo n't overlap ( Radcliffe 's engagement ends this July ) . See the original story at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
The `` Potter '' star will appear in `` It 's Only a Play '' He will play Frank Finger , a wunderkind director of a new play . `` Potter '' co-star Daniel Radcliffe recently returned to Broadway .