{"id":214085,"date":"2026-04-29T14:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214085\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:30:40","slug":"hit-west-end-benjamin-button-musical-to-make-new-york-debut-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214085\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit West End Benjamin Button Musical to Make New York Debut This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/?attachment_id=1834873\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1834873 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1834873 size-large\" title=\"THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. The Company. Photo Marc Brenner (2)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/THE-CURIOUS-CASE-OF-BENJAMIN-BUTTON.-The-Company.-Photo-Marc-Brenner-2.jpg\" alt=\"THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON. The Company. Photo Marc Brenner (2)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"  \/><\/a>The West End production of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is coming to New York <br \/>(\u00a9 Marc Brenner)<\/p>\n<p>The hit West End musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will make its New York debut this fall at the Public Theater, running October 8-November 15.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Jethro Compton and Darren Clark, this Olivier Award-winning musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald story is directed by Compton, with choreography by Chi-San Howard. Set in a Cornish fishing village, it tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who ages in reverse. Fitzgerald\u2019s short story has been adapted for the stage for 15 actor-musicians by Compton and Clark, with the piece receiving three glowing reviews from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsonstage.com\/news\/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-west-end-review-the-musical-is-ageing-beautifully_1649604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WhatsOnStage \u2013 amounting to a maximum of 15 stars. <\/a>Playing at the Ambassadors Theatre from 2024 to 2025, the show won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, alongside two other prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Leading off the Public season is Jacob Ming-Trent\u2019s\u00a0How Shakespeare Saved My Life (September 15-October 18), directed by Tony Taccone; Taylor Mac and Matt Ray\u2019s\u00a0Songs from Bark of Millions at the Delacorte Theater (September 18-20); and Ryan J. Haddad\u2019s\u00a0Good Time Charlie, directed by Danny Sharron (September 24-October 18).<\/p>\n<p>Also this fall: Richard Nelson\u2019s latest Apple Family play,\u00a0We\u2019ll See: Conversations Among the Apple Family on the Night of the Midterm Elections\u00a0(October 25-November 22), starring Sally Murphy (Jane), Maryann Plunkett (Barbara), Laila Robins (Marian), and Jay O. Sanders (Richard). Plus, Jessie Austrian will direct the Fiasco Theater production of Susan Glaspell\u2019s The Verge, starring Miriam Silverman (October 27-November 22).<\/p>\n<p>In winter 2027, the Public will present James Ijames\u2019s new play\u00a0Welcome Table and the Bedlam production of Emily Breeze\u2019s\u00a0Are the Bennet Girls OK?<\/p>\n<p>Full casting and further information about each production will be announced at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The West End production of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is coming to New York (\u00a9 Marc&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-214085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}