Broadway highlights and tickets
Compiled by Jack Foley
FANCY catching a show on Broadway while visiting New York? Well, here’s a selection of some of the hottest shows currently available…
Thurgood – Booth Theatre
Tony Award winner and Academy Award nominee Laurence Fishburne brings one of America’s greatest heroes to life in George Stevens, Jr.‘s powerful new play.
Fishburne’s performances have been deemed “brilliant,” “riveting” and “electrifying” by The New York Times.
Now he portrays Thurgood Marshall, the grandson of a slave who became our first African-American Supreme Court Justice. Thurgood is his remarkable story, a triumph of courage – not just for the man, but for the nation he bravely challenged and proudly served.
Address
Booth Theatre
222 West 45th Street
Spring Awakening – Eugene O’Neill Theatre
Based on Frank Wedekind’s masterpiece The Awakening of Spring, Spring Awakening is the contemporary musical adaptation of one of literature’s most controversial plays. Spring Awakening boldly depicts a dozen young people and how they make their way through the thrilling, complicated, confusing and mysterious time of their sexual awakening.
“BROADWAY MAY NEVER BE THE SAME! THIS BRAVE NEW MUSICAL, HAUNTING AND ELECTRIFYING BY TURNS, RESTORES THE MYSTERY AND THE THRILL TO THAT SHATTERING TRANSFORMATION THAT STIRS IN ALL OF OUR SOULS.” Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
Address
EUGENE O’NEILL THEATRE
230 West 49th Street
125th Anniversary Gala – Metropolitan Opera
Celebrate the Met’s 125th anniversary as the world’s greatest singers take the stage in recreations of classic productions from the company’s storied history. Fully staged scenes, conducted by James Levine, will be realized with scenic projections and new costumes made from the original designs. The gala will also celebrate Plácido Domingo’s 40th anniversary with the company.
The evening will feature designs from Marc Chagall’s vision for Die Zauberflöte; the outlawed first presentation outside Bayreuth of Parsifal (1903); the world premiere of La Fanciulla del West (1910); the 1883 Opening Night of Faust; and other classic productions from Met history.
Address
Metropolitan Opera
Lincoln Center
New York
Gypsy – St. James Theatre
Gypsy, the musical fable suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, is written by three legendary theatrical giants. The book is by two-time Tony Award winning legend Arthur Laurents, with music by two-time Tony Award winner Jule Styne and lyrics by multiple Tony Award winner Stephen Sondheim. The 1959 blockbuster, originally directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, boasts a legendary score with such classic songs as “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “Rose’s Turn” and “Some People.”
Address
St. James Theatre
246 West 44th Street
My First Time – New World Stages / Stage 5 (Off Broadway)
My First Time, recently featured on CNN, Fox, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in an iPhone commercial, is a brand new play in the style of The Vagina Monologues, featuring four actors in hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences written by real people . . . just like you!
“New York’s Best New Play!” . . . “Screamingly Funny!” . . . “Provocative, amusing and moving!” . . . “80 minutes of titillation – the theatrical equivalent of a date-movie!” are just a few of the things critics like the NY Post and Newsday have called this “diverting evening of first-time tales that is by turns comical, erotic, sentimental, galling, heart-rendering, and even mildly political.” (Toronto Globe & Mail).
Address
New World Stages / Stage 5 (Off Broadway)
340 West 50th Street