Cynthia Nixon hadn\u2019t been onstage since 2017, when she and Laura Linney<\/a> alternated the roles of Regina and Birdie in \u201cThe Little Foxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wasn\u2019t expecting her comeback to be \u201cThe Seven Year Disappear<\/a>,\u201d playing an artist who also re-emerges after seven years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really startling to me and a weird, uncanny echo of the play,\u201d Nixon said. The Jordan Seavey production runs through March 31 at the New Group, and four performances, from March 29 to 31, will be live-streamed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nixon is a two-time Tony Award winner, including one for \u201cThe Little Foxes,\u201d but she is widely known for her work in television, including as Miranda Hobbes in \u201cSex and the City\u201d and in \u201cAnd Just Like That \u2026\u201d and as Ada Brook in \u201cThe Gilded Age.\u201d This summer, she plans to begin shooting the third seasons of those latter two series, volleying from one to the other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n