The show is co-adapted and directed by Robert Icke, one of London's busiest theater directors, who recently helmed the National Theater's production of David Hare's "The Red Barn" starring Mark Strong and Hope Davis. Created by Icke and Duncan Macmillian, "1984" proved a hit in the U.K. in 2014.

The New York production is lined up for a summer run at the Hudson Theater, the newly restored Broadway venue that will reopen later this month with "Sunday in the Park With George" starring Jake Gyllenhaal. The Hudson is owned by the U.K.-based Ambassador Theater Group, of which Sonia Friedman Prods. is a subsidiary.