Past Productions
Once Upon a Mattress
July 2024 - November 2024
Once Upon a Mattress, the iconic musical comedy, is back on Broadway for the first time since 1996. Two-time Tony® winner Sutton Foster gives what The New York Times calls an “ebullient, joyful, perfectly goofy” performance as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone.
Direct from its record-breaking New York City Center Encores! run and newly adapted by Amy Sherman-Palladino (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), this New York Times Critic’s Pick introduces the unapologetically eccentric Winnifred to a repressed kingdom, where she charms, delights, and dances her way to the top… of a stack of mattresses.
Merrily We Roll Along
SEPTEMBER 2023 - JULY 2024
IT’S THE BEST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED!
Following sold-out runs in London and at the New York Theatre Workshop, Merrily We Roll Along is back on Broadway — and with Maria Friedman’s widely acclaimed production, it is poised at last to take its place in the pantheon of great American musicals. Featuring one of Sondheim's most celebrated and personal scores, and moving backwards in time, Merrily charts the turbulent relationship between three lifelong friends — played by Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez — and traces every milestone of their lives for nearly two decades as they navigate success, show business and unbreakable bonds.
WINNER of 4 TONY AWARDS - including Best Revival, Best Leading Actor in a Musical, and Best Supporting Actor in a Musical.
Legacy: An Evening with Maria Friedman and Friends
MARCH 4, 2024
Four-time Olivier Award winner and director of this season’s critically acclaimed Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along, Maria Friedman has crafted a special one-night-only benefit concert, with friends old and new.
Legacy: An Evening with Maria Friedman & Friends celebrates the brilliance of Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch and Michel Legrand, three titans of 20th century musical theater. A universally praised interpreter of their works, Friedman performed with Sondheim, Hamlisch and Legrand multiple times throughout her career.
This unique theatrical event will see her showcase many of their greatest hits with entertaining and personal memories that will make this evening a night to remember.
The evening benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Stephen Sondheim Foundation and The Marvin Hamlisch International Music Awards.
Alex Edelman's Just For Us
JUNE 22, 2023 - AUGUST 19, 2023
In the wake of a string of anti-Semitic threats pointed in his direction online, standup comic Alex Edelman decides to go straight to the source; specifically, Queens, where he covertly attends a meeting of White Nationalists and comes face-to-face with the people behind the keyboards. What happens next forms the backbone of the shockingly relevant, utterly hilarious, and only moderately perspirant stories that comprise JUST FOR US.
Expertly crafted by one of comedy’s most distinctive voices, this singular theatrical experience is an exploration of identity and our collective capacity for empathy — oh, and it’s also “belly-laugh funny!” (The New York Times).
A Doll's House
FEBRUARY 13, 2023 - JUNE 10, 2023
Academy Award® winner Jessica Chastain stars in this thrilling reinvention of Ibsen’s A DOLL’S HOUSE. Directed by Tony® nominee Jamie Lloyd, one of contemporary theater’s most revolutionary auteurs, and adapted by acclaimed playwright Amy Herzog, this new production makes freshly relevant a story that shocked audiences and brought forth a new era of theater.
Death of a Salesman
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 – JANUARY 15, 2023
Following a critically acclaimed run in London, this vibrant and timely production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman came to Broadway. Olivier Award nominee Wendell Pierce and Olivier Award winner and 2022 Tony® nominee Sharon D Clarke reprised their roles as Willy and Linda Loman in a revival told – for the first time on Broadway – from the perspective of an African American family. A new cast of supporting actors joined the production in New York, led by Tony winner André De Shields and Khris Davis. Directed by Miranda Cromwell – who won an Olivier Award alongside co-director Marianne Elliott for the West End and Young Vic productions – this powerful interpretation of Miller’s classic drama illuminates the dark underbelly of the American Dream and its elusive promise of equality and opportunity for all. Don’t miss the brilliantly reimagined revival The New York Times called “vital and electrifying.”
Neil Simon's Plaza Suite
FEBRUARY 25 – JULY 10, 2022
Two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick and two-time Emmy Award winner Sarah Jessica Parker returned to Broadway together in the classic Neil Simon comedy Plaza Suite. Directed by Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey, this uproarious and piercing look at love and marriage came to Hudson Theatre for a limited engagement. Two world-class actors played three hilarious couples in a Broadway classic from a legendary playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Karen and Sam are a long-married pair whose relationship may be headed for an early checkout. Muriel and Jesse are former high school sweethearts who seem destined for an extended stay. And Norma and Roy are the mother and father of the bride, ready to celebrate their daughter’s nuptials — if only they can get her out of the bathroom.
Tony winner JOHN BENJAMIN HICKEY leads a Tony-winning creative team, including JOHN LEE BEATTY (sets), JANE GREENWOOD (costumes), BRIAN MacDEVITT (lighting), SCOTT LEHRER (sound), TOM WATSON (wigs) and MARC SHAIMAN (music).
David Byrne's American Utopia
OCTOBER 4, 2019 – FEBRUARY 16, 2020
In American Utopia, Talking Heads superstar David Byrne was joined by 11 diverse musicians from around the globe in a “knockout theatrical concert, honoring the pleasures of music, dance and song as collective celebration” (The Hollywood Reporter). Featuring “altogether astonishing choreography by Annie-B Parson” (The New York Times), with Tony-nominated Alex Timbers (director of Moulin Rouge! The Musical) serving as production consultant, it’s “an artistically stunning tour de force” (Variety) brimming with “total, buoyant joy” (New York Magazine). Christine Amanpour said, “It’s all about hope and connection between people. And it rocks.”
Academy Award®-winning director Spike Lee’s acclaimed filmed version of David Byrne’s American Utopia made its world premiere opening the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival and is currently streaming on HBO Max. The film has been called “a life-affirming, euphoria-producing, soul-energizing sing-along protest film that’s asking us to rise up against our own complacency” (IndieWire) and “an all-time-great concert film” (Vanity Fair). The A.V. Club said, “David Byrne and Spike Lee found the spectacle in the performers simply performing.”
Nonesuch Records released both the original 2018 American Utopia album, which inspired the Broadway show, as well as the cast album for David Byrne’s American Utopia, with music and lyrics by David Byrne. Both albums are available digitally and on vinyl and CD: the cast album here, the original album here.
The show’s design team included Rob Sinclair (lighting) and Pete Keppler (sound). Karl Mansfield and Mauro Refosco were Musical Directors. Choreography and Musical Staging was by Annie-B Parson. Alex Timbers served as Production Consultant.
Ian McKellen On Stage
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
“This year I’ve been having the time of my life, touring my new show across the UK. Now it will be an extra treat to return to Broadway, 50 years after my debut in NYC, especially as it will benefit the inspirational work of Only Make Believe. Please come and help me celebrate!”
– Ian McKellen
Directed By Sean Mathias
Sea Wall / A Life
JULY 26 – SEPTEMBER 29, 2019
Meet Alex, a photographer on a holiday with his family in the south of France. Meet Abe, a music producer with a baby on the way. Two men – both fathers, husbands, and sons – take us on a journey you will never forget.
The finest actors of their generation, Academy Award® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Sunday In The Park With George) and Tony Award® nominee Tom Sturridge (1984), had audiences roaring to their feet at the sold-out engagement at The Public Theater. Now Sea Wall/A Life, from the visionary creative team behind The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Constellations and A Doll’s House, comes to Broadway.
Burn This
MARCH 15 – JULY 14, 2019
Academy Award nominee Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman, Star Wars, “Girls”) and Golden Globe winner Keri Russell (“The Americans,” Waitress, “Felicity”) star in the acclaimed drama by Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson.
When a mysterious death brings together two unlikely strangers, their explosive connection sparks a chemistry too fiery to ignore. Directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), and co-starring Tony nominees David Furr and Brandon Uranowitz, BURN THIS is a smoldering story of love and raw attraction by one of the most vital playwrights of the modern era.
Head Over Heels
JUNE 23, 2018 – JANUARY 6, 2019
Head Over Heels is the bold and fierce new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q and Spring Awakening.
Set to the iconic music of the 1980’s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, it includes the hit songs “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth,” and many more!
It’s a hilarious and sexy celebration of love in all its infinite varieties, told through the story of a royal family that must embark on an extravagant journey to save their beloved kingdom and find love and acceptance.
The Original Broadway Cast Recording, a 20-track album featuring a score comprised of hit songs from the all-female ’80s pop band The Go-Go’s, is now available to purchase and stream.
DGF:Toasts Stephen Schwartz's 70th Birthday
APRIL 23, 2018
Join the Dramatists Guild Foundation on April 23 at the Hudson Theatre as we celebrate Stephen Schwartz’s 70th Birthday with a star-filled concert dedicated to Stephen and his beloved songs, stories, and legacy. Watch as Broadway’s best toast Stephen for his commitment to the craft and the community with show stopping performances from across his four-decade repertory of songs.
Directed by Scott Schwartz with music direction by Andrew Lippa, the concert will include special performances by Tony, Grammy and Academy Award-winning composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, La La Land, The Greatest Showman), Tony, Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer Alan Menken (Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid); Tony Award-winners Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen); Tony Award-winner Judith Light (Other Desert Cities, The Assembled Parties); Patina Miller (Pippin, Sister Act); Tony Award-winner Laura Osnes (Bonnie and Clyde, Bandtand); Jason Gotay (Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark); Darren Criss (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Hedwig and the Angry Inch); acclaimed soprano Renée Fleming (Carousel) Lindsay Mendez (Carousel, Wicked, Godspell), Alex Newell (Once On This Island, Glee), Michael McCorry Rose (Wicked, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder), Corey Cott (Bandstand, Newsies, Gigi), Casey Cott (Riverdale), and composer Matt Gould (Invisible Thread). There will be appearances by Grammy and Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen, Coco) and double E.G.O.T.-winning composer and lyricist Robert Lopez.
This is the debut of the new concert series, DGF: Toasts, honoring the life and work of American theater’s greatest writers. Proceeds from the concert go to supporting the Dramatists Guild Foundation (DGF) a national charity that fuels the future of American theater by supporting the writers who create it. The Dramatists Guild Foundation fosters playwrights, composers, lyricists, and bookwriters at all stages of their careers. DGF sponsors educational programs; provides awards, grants, and stipends; offers free space to create new works; and gives emergency aid to writers in need. For more information about dgf, please visit dgf.org.
DGF:Toasts is sponsored in part by by Ambassador Theatre Group and Hudson Theatre.
The Parisian Woman
NOVEMBER 9, 2017 – MARCH 11, 2018
‘‘Gorgeous and mysterious, Uma Thurman inhabits her character with intelligence and innate glamour.’’ – The New York Times
“A steaming kettle of inside-the-beltway intrigue. Ambition and deception, sex, betrayal and blackmail: It’s all here, wrapped up in a stylish package slickly directed by Pam MacKinnon.’’ – Charles Isherwood, Broadway News
Academy Award nominee Uma Thurman stars in The Parisian Woman, a new play written by Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Beau Willimon (“House of Cards”) and directed by Tony Award® winner Pam MacKinnon (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).
The Parisian Woman is set in Washington, D.C., where powerful friends are the only kind worth having, especially after the 2016 election. At the center is Chloe (Uma Thurman), a socialite armed with charm and wit, coming to terms with politics, her past, her marriage and an uncertain future. Dark humor and drama collide at this pivotal moment in Chloe’s life, and in our nation’s, when the truth isn’t obvious and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
In addition to Ms. Thurman, the cast of The Parisian Woman also stars Josh Lucas (Sweet Home Alabama), Marton Csokas (The Lord of the Rings), Tony Award® nominee Phillipa Soo (Hamilton), and Tony Award® winner Blair Brown.
1984
MAY 18 – OCTOBER 8, 2017
Following four wildly successful U.K. runs, the “hair-raisingly vivid” (New York Magazine) stage adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece, 1984, comes to New York in what The Huffington Post calls “an unforgettable jolt of high-voltage theatre that is literally shocking.”
One of the most widely referenced and best known fiction titles of all time, 1984 has sold over 30 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 65 languages. Now, Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan have adapted this iconic novel into “a chilling, ingenious 101 minutes of theatre” (The London Times) starring Tom Sturridge, Olivia Wilde, and Reed Birney.
“Imagine that sound of a roller coaster clanking slowly up to the top of its tallest drop.” – T. Michelle Murphy, Metro
“When was the last time you felt scared at the theater? Not disturbed or perturbed or provoked, but scared? 1984 is intense in a way I’ve never seen on Broadway.” Adam Feldman, Time Out
Sunday in the Park with George
FEBRUARY 11 – APRIL 23, 2017
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tony® winner Annaleigh Ashford opened Broadway’s new Hudson Theatre in the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine Pulitzer Price-winning masterpiece Sunday In the Park with George. This strictly limited 10 week run dazzled audiences and was praised by critics.
“Destined to be forever spoken of with misty-eyed bragging rights by anyone who sees it.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“Jake Gyllenhaal is radiant. His searing theatrical presence and unwavering focus seems to consume and illuminate the dark. He has a voice of richly flexible timbre that confidently elicits the most delicate shades of passion and despair.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“The luminous Annaleigh Ashford delivers a performance with both gorgeous precision and spontaneous warmth matched by her eloquent singing.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times