{"id":366134,"date":"2026-10-06T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366134\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:28:14","slug":"the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-public-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366134\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button | Public Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Durand plays the title character, who is born an old man and ages into a child, in Jethro Compton\u00a0and Darren Clark&#8217;s musical adaptation of F. Scott&#8217;s Fitzgerald&#8217;s whimsical 1922 short story. This British version moves the\u00a0setting from\u00a019th-century America to 20th-century Cornwall, and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/theatre\/the-curious-case-of-benjamin-button-review-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acclaimed 2024 West End production<\/a>\u00a0won the Olivier Award for Best Musical last year. Co-author\u00a0Compton also serves as the show&#8217;s director and scenic designer; the rest of the London creative team is also on board for its U.S. premiere at the Public Theater, which co-stars\u00a0Kelsee Kimmel as the love of Button&#8217;s backward life.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Durand plays the title character, who is born an old man and ages into a child, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[47764,7746,7743,9,24,55,54,56,7744,905,21118],"class_list":["post-366134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-event-type-off-broadway","tag-event-type-plays-shows","tag-featured-theater-featured","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-price","tag-theater","tag-theater-musicals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366134","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=366134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}