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June Squibb is making history as Broadway's oldest performer to open a show at age 96

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the Broadway play Marjorie Prime

"I am not upset about being this age. I am not afraid of it," Squibb said

June Squibb is back on Broadway — and making history.

The Oscar-nominated actress is leading the cast of the Second Stage Theater’s production of Jordan Harrison’s Pulitzer Prize-finalist play Marjorie Prime , about a woman with dementia who interacts with a holographic companion programmed to resemble her deceased husband.

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the production, which is directed by Tony Award nominee Anne Kauffman.

Now in previews at the Hayes Theater in New York City ahead of an opening night of Dec. 8, the science ficti

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