THEATER

Playwright: Jez Butterworth

Director: Sam Mendes

Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Neal Street Productions, Starry Night Entertainment, Ron Frankel, Gavin Kalin Productions, Scott Delman, Stephanie McClelland, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Scott Landis

The Ferryman is set in Northern Ireland in 1981, during the height of the Troubles. Quinn, a former terrorist, has swapped his career with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) for a life on the farm in rural Armagh. He now lives with his sickly wife, their children, his sister-in-law and nephew. The IRA murdered Quinn’s brother, Seamus, when he was just twenty years old and his body has only recently been discovered. He was one of the sixteen men and women who were killed and buried in unknown locations during the 1970s, leaving their family unsure as to whether they were alive or dead. Seamus was apparently shot dead following Quinn’s defection from the IRA in 1972, and a threateningly influential IRA member, Muldoon, now comes to pay Quinn a visit. He is keen to ensure that there are no further repercussions to the IRA’s cause, now Seamus’ murder has come to light.

HAMILTON

Book/Music/Lyrics: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Director: Thomas Kail

Choreographer: Andy Blankenbuehler

Producers: Jeffrey Seller, Sander Jacobs, Jill Furman

HAMILTON is a musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired by the 2004 biography Alexander Hamilton by historian Ron Chernow.

HAMILTON made its Off-Broadway debut at The Public Theater in February 2015, where its engagement was sold out. The show transferred to Broadway in August 2015 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. On Broadway, it received enthusiastic critical reception and unprecedented advance box office sales. In 2016, HAMILTON received a record-setting 16 Tony nominations, winning 11, including Best Musical, and was also the recipient of the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album and the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

LABOUR OF LOVE

Playwright: James Graham

Director: Jeremy Herrin

Cast: Martin Freeman, Tamsin Greig, Rachael Stirling, Kwong Loke, Dickon Tyrrell and Susan Wokoma

Producers: The Michael Grandage Company and Headlong

Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and “electability”… his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party’s traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of philosophy, culture and class against the backdrop of the Labour Party over 25 years as it moves from Kinnock through Blair into Corbyn… and beyond?

The Michael Grandage Company and Headlong present the world première of James Graham’s new play Labour of Love at the Noel Coward Theatre for a strictly limited run. Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig star in this razor sharp political comedy about the Labour Party, set in the party's traditional northern heartands where the clash and divide between party philosophy, class and culture couldn't be more divided.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

Book: John Cameron Mitchell

Music and Lyrics: Stephen Trask

Director: Michael Mayer

Cast: Neil Patrick Harris, Lena Hall, Darren Criss

Producers: David Binder, Barbara Whitman, Paula Black, Ruth Hendel, Stacey Mindich, Starry Night Entertainment

Brilliantly innovative, heartbreaking, and wickedly funny, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH is the landmark musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask that is “groundbreaking and undoubtedly ahead of its time” (Entertainment Weekly). This genre-bending, fourth-wall-smashing musical sensation, with a pulsing score and electrifying performances, tells the story of one of the most unique characters to ever hit the stage. Directed by Tony Award® winner Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) and winner of four 2014 Tony Awards® including Best Musical Revival, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH played to record-breaking sell-out crowds on Broadway and across North America with what Time Magazine proclaims is “the most exciting rock score written for the theatre since, oh, ever!”

LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES

Playwright: Christopher Hampton

Director: Josie Rourke

Cast: Liev Schreiber, Janet McTeer

Producers: Arielle Tepper Madover, Starry Night Entertainment, Eric and Marsi Gardiner, Patty Baker, Scott Delman, Kenneth Wirth, Susan Edelstein, Eric Falkenstein, Jay and Cindy Gutterman, Marc Levine, Bob Boyett

LIEV SCHREIBER, Tony Award® winner for Best Actor in Glengarry Glen Ross and star of Showtime's "Ray Donovan"; and JANET McTEER, Tony winner for Best Actress in A Doll's House, return to Broadway in one of the sexiest plays ever written. LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES begins with two ex-lovers who scheme to ruin the reputation of an innocent young aristocrat. As their game of seduction and manipulation becomes more intricate, they quickly discover that the stakes are higher than they bargained for… and their last encounter may be their most dangerous by far.

THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN

A dark comedy by Martin McDonagh set on the small Aran Islands community of Inishmaan off the Western Coast of Ireland in 1934, Cripple of Inishmaan links the real-life filming of the documentary Man of Aran to the play’s inhabitants who are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in neighboring Inishmore. Local "Cripple Billy" Claven, eager to escape the gossip, poverty and boredom of Irishman vies for a part in the film, and to everyone's surprise, the orphan and outcast gets his chance.... or so some believe.

Playwright: Martin McDonagh

Director: Michael Grandage

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Ingrid Craigie, Padraic Delaney, Sarah Greene, Gillian Hanna, Gary Liburn, Conor MacNeill, Pat Shortt, June Watson, Josh Salt, Leslie Lyles, Helen Cespedes, Aidan Redmond

Producers: Michael Grandage Company, Arielle Tepper Madover, Stacey Mindich, Starry Night Entertainment

AFTER MIDNIGHT

The life of John Merrick, intensely disfigured by a rare disease, who was rescued from a life as a carnival freak by a kindly doctor and patronized by actresses and royalty, is dramatized by Bernard Pomerance.

Director/Choreographer: Warren Carlyle

Creator: Jack Viertel

Cast: Dule Hill, Fantasia, Diane Lenox, k.d. lang, Toni Braxton, Vanessa Williams, Patti LaBelle

Producers: Scott Sanders, Roy Furman, Candy Spelling, Starry Night Entertainment, Hal Newman, Allan S. Gordon, James L. Nederlander, Robert K. Kraft, Catherine Adler, Robert Appel, Jeffrey Bolton, Scott Delman, James Fantaci, Ted Liebowitz, Stephanie P. McClelland

After Midnight takes the sexy, smoky glamour of the Jazz Age and catapults it into a new era of heart-pounding, mind-blowing entertainment for modern Broadway audiences. Refracted through a contemporary lens, After Midnight celebrates Duke Ellington's years at the Harlem's famed Cotton Club using his original arrangements and performed by a world-class big band of 17 musicians hand-picked by jazz legend, Wynton Marsalis. Langston Hughes' poetry provides the narrative for 25 sensational vocalists and dancers whose interpretations shatter everything you think you know about music, nightlife and Broadway.

THE ELEPHANT MAN

Playwright: Bernard Pomerance

Director: Scott Ellis

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Patricia Clarkson, Anthony Heald, Scott Lowell, Kathryn Meisle, Henry Stram, Chris Bannow, Peter Bradbury, Lucas Calhoun, Eric Clem, Amanda Lea Mason, Marguerite Stimpson

Producers: James Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, Catherine Adler, Roger Berlind, Caiola Productions, Patrick Catulo, Roy Furman, Larry Hirschorn, Jeffrey Finn, Van Kaplan, Ed Kaufmann, Hal Luftig, Arielle Tepper Madover

PHOTOGRAPH 51

Does Rosalind Franklin know how precious her photograph is? In the race to unlock the secret of life it could be the one to hold the key. With rival scientists looking everywhere for the answer, who will be first to see it and more importantly, understand it? Anna Ziegler’s extraordinary play looks at the woman who cracked DNA and asks what is sacrificed in the pursuit of science, love and a place in history. Nicole Kidman makes her much anticipated return to the London stage in the role of Rosalind Franklin, the woman who discovered the secret to Life, in the UK première of Anna Ziegler’s award-winning play.

Playwright: Anna Ziegler

Director: Michael Grandage

Cast: Nicole Kidman, Will Attenborough, Edward Bennett, Stephen Campbell Moore, Patrick Kennedy, Joshua Silver, Lorna Stuart, William Troughton, Patrick Walshe McBride

Producers: The Michael Grandage Company

LUCKY GUY

Playwright: Nora Ephron

Director: George C. Wolfe

Cast: Tom Hanks, Maura Tierney, Courtney B. Vance, Peter Scolari

Producers: Colin Callender, Roy Furman, Arielle Tepper Madover, Roger & William Berlind, Stacey Mindich, Robert Cole, Frederick Zollo, David Mirvish, Daryl Roth, James D. Stern, Douglas L. Meyer, Scott & Brian Zeilinger, Sonia Friedman, The Shubert Organization

LUCKY GUY premiered in 2013, just after playwright Nora Ephon’s untimely death and marked Tom Hanks's Broadway debut. Ephron's final work centered on the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s, as told through the story of the charismatic and controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary. From his sensational reporting of New York’s major police corruption to the libel suit that nearly ended his career, the play dramatizes the story of McAlary's meteoric rise, fall and rise again, ending with his coverage of the Abner Louima case for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, shortly before his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998.

THE LAST SHIP

The Last Ship is set in the English seafaring town of Wallsend, a close-knit community where life has always revolved around the local shipyard and the hardworking men construct magnificent vessels with tremendous pride. But Gideon Fletcher dreams of a different future. He sets out to travel the world, leaving his life and his love behind. When Gideon returns home 14 years later, he finds the shipyard's future in grave danger and his childhood sweetheart engaged to someone else. As the men of Wallsend take their future into their own hands and build a towering representation of the shared dream that defines their existence, Gideon realizes that he left behind more than he could have ever imagined.

Music and lyrics: Sting

Book: John Logan and Brian Yorkey

Director: Joe Mantello

Cast: Michael Esper, Rachel Tucker, Sting, Fred Applegate, Aaron Lazar, Sally Ann Triplett and Collin Kelly-Sordelet

Producers: Jeffrey Seller, Kathryn Schenker, Kevin McCollum, Sander Jacobs, James L. Nederlander, Roy Furman, Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss

THE DAZZLE

Playwright: Richard Greenberg

Director: Simon Evans

Cast: Andrew Scott, David Dawson and Joanna Vanderham

Producers: The Michael Grandage Company and Emily Dobbs Productions

New York City. The beginning of the 20th Century. Two brothers sit in their home surrounded by 136 tons of hoarded junk. When a beautiful guest arrives, everybody’s lives are thrown into sharp focus.

Langley and Homer Collyer were a fascinating pair of real life eccentrics, two wealthy hoarder brothers who lived in a New York brownstone in the first half of the last century, gradually becoming more withdrawn and isolated until they were discovered dead underneath piles of their own boobytrap-filled junk in March 1947.

HENRY V

Playwright: William Shakespeare

Director: Michael Grandage

Cast: Jude Law, Harry Attwell, Jason Baughan, Norman Bowman, Jessie Buckley, Richard Clifford, Ron Cook, Ian Drysdale, Noma Dumezweni, Michael Hadley, Edward Harrison, Christopher Heyward, Fred Lancaster, James Laurenson, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Rhys Meredith, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Maddie Rice, Matt Ryan, Ashley Zhangazha

Producers: The Michael Grandage Company

Can the King of England hold his nerve to embrace his duty, command his men and lead his country to victory in France? Shakespeare’s great play of nationhood investigates the bloody horrors of war and the turbulence of a land in crisis.

ON YOUR FEET!

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Book: Alexander Dinelaris

Music and Lyrics: Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan

Director: Jerry Mitchell

Cast: Ana Villafañe, Josh Segarra, Andréa Burns, Alma Cuervo, Alexandria Suaréz, Eduardo Hernandez

Producers: James L. Nederlander, Estefan Enterprises, Inc., Bernie Yuman, Roy Furman, Terry Allen Kramer, Catherine Adler, Caiola Productions, Reg * Grove, IPN / Albert Nocciolino, Stewart F. Lane / Bonnie Comley, Pittsburgh CLO, Eva Price, Iris Smith, Broadway Across America, Larry Hirschhorn / Double Gemini Productions, Marc David Levine / Burnt Umber Productions, and Stella La Rue / Lawrence S. Toppall

ON YOUR FEET! is the story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, two people who – through an unwavering dedication to one another and their pursuit of the American Dream – showcased their talent, their music and their heritage to the world in a remarkable rise to global superstardom.

ROCKY

Book: Thomas Meehan

Music: Stephen Flaherty

Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens

Director: Alex Timbers

Cast: Andy Karl, Margo Seibert, Terence Archie, Dakin Matthews, Danny Mastrogiorgio

Producers: Stage Entertainment USA, Inc., Sylvester Stallone, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Shubert Organization, Kevin King-Templeton, James L. Nederlander & Terry Allen Kramer, Roy Furman, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Zane Tankel, Lucky Champions, Scott Delman, JFL Theatricals/Judith Ann Abrams, Latitude Link, Waxman/Shin/Bergère, Lauren Stevens/Josh Goodman, Joop Van Den Ende and Bill Taylor

ROCKY brings to life the story of struggling small time Philly boxer, Rocky Balboa, who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to go the distance against heavyweight champ Apollo Creed.

1984

Directors/Adaptors: Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan

Source Material: 1984 by George Orwell

Cast: Tom Sturridge, Olivia Wilde, Reed Birney

Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Rudin, Eleanor Lloyd Productions, The John Gore Organization, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Eli Bush, Patrick Catullo, Scott M. Delman, Stephanie P. McClelland, Richard Winkler, Barbara Whitman, Zeilinger Productions, Paul Bendat, Paula Marie Black, Colin Callender, Ruth Hendel, Wendy Federman, JFL Theatricals & Tanya Link Productions, Olympus Theatricals

Following four wildly successful U.K. runs, the “hair-raisingly vivid” (New York Magazine) stage adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece 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).

PETER AND ALICE

Playwright: John Logan

Director: Michael Grandage

Cast: Judi Dench, Ben Whishaw

Producer: The Michael Grandage Company

When Alice Liddell Hargreaves met Peter Llewelyn Davies at the opening of a Lewis Carroll exhibition in 1932, the original Alice in Wonderland came face to face with the original Peter Pan. In John Logan’s remarkable new play, enchantment and reality collide as this brief encounter lays bare the lives of these two extraordinary characters. Judi Dench and Ben Wishaw played Alice Liddell Hargreaves and Peter Llewelyn Davies respectively in Logan’s first new play since Red, which went on to win 6 Tony Awards in 2010.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Playwright: William Shakespeare

Director: Michael Grandage

Cast: Sheridan Smith, David Williams

Producer: The Michael Grandage Company

Lysander loves Hermia. Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Demetrius used to love Helena but now loves Hermia. In the surrounding forest Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the Fairies, are having their own battle of love. As the human and magical worlds collide, mischief and chaos erupt, and love at first sight proves a reality for some but makes an ass of others.

PRIVATES ON PARADE

Playwright: Peter Nichols

Music: Denis King

Director: Michael Grandage

Cast: Simon Russell Beale

Producer: The Michael Grandage Company

Private Steven Flowers is posted to the Song and Dance Unit in South East Asia where serving under the flamboyant Captain Terri Dennis he discovers it takes more than just a uniform to become a man.

Simon Russell Beale played the cross-dressing Captain Dennis whose performances of Marlene Dietrich, Vera Lynn and Carmen Miranda form the centrepiece of Peter Nichols’ award-winning comedy set against the murderous backdrop of the Malaysian campaign at the end of the Second World War.

MISTAKES WERE MADE

Playwright: Craig Wright

Director: Dexter Bullard

Cast: Michael Shannon

Producers: Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian, Tom Wirtshafter, Marc Biales, Rebecca Gold, Christian Chadd Taylor, Weinstein Company and Starry Night Entertainment

Mistakes Were Made is a hilarious, but also deeply moving character study of a man seeking redemption, but inescapably creating destruction.

Felix Artifex, a B-list Off-Broadway producer, gets in way over his fast-talking head when he takes on a gargantuan epic about theFrench Revolution, which he thinks is going to be his ticket to professional and personal reclamation. While trying to land a big star for the lead role, he uses all his powers of persuasion, seduction and intimidation to strong-arm the writer into massively rewriting his play. At the same time, he attempts to reconnect with his estranged wife and untangle himself from a mess involving sheep in a distant war-torn country.

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