Fantastic news for all NYC-based fans: Laura will make her return to Broadway in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of Time Stands Still next January. Tony winner Daniel Sullivan will be directing the play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Donald Margulies, and it will be the third Margulies play for Laura after Beggars In The House Of Plenty and Sight Unseen.

Are we supposed to deny ourselves ordinary happiness because there’s misery in the world? This is one of many questions Donald Margulies poses in his intelligent and timely new play. James and Sarah (Linney), a journalist and a photographer, have been together for nine years and share a passion for documenting the realities of war. But when injuries force them to return home to New York, the adventurous couple confronts the prospect of a more conventional life. Time Stands Still is a blazingly important new work about responsibility — to ourselves, to our loved ones, to our community, and to our world.

The remaining cast is yet to be announced, Broadway performances will begin Jan. 5, 2010.