{"id":39871,"date":"2025-11-14T20:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39871\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:55:15","slug":"on-stage-director-reveals-ideas-for-new-york-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/39871\/","title":{"rendered":"ON STAGE Director Reveals Ideas for New York Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    ]]><\/p>\n<p>Based on the original Hunger Games story, The Hunger Games: On Stage is now playing in the UK. This gripping tale of courage, defiance and unbreakable human spirit, follows the fearless heroine Katniss Everdeen on her journey of self-discovery, as she emerges as a beacon of rebellion and hope.<\/p>\n<p>Multi award-winning playwright <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Conor-McPherson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Conor McPherson<\/a> (Girl from the North Country, The Weir) and Director <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Matthew-Dunster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matthew Dunster<\/a> (2:22 \u2013 A Ghost Story, Hangmen, The Pillowman) bring this story to life on stage, using stunts and illusions in an epic theatrical experience.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/theater\/global\/hunger-games-play-director-building-arena-finding-katniss-broadway-1236580712\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">interview<\/a>, Dunster revealed his thoughts on a US production of\u00a0The Hunger Games: On Stage.<\/p>\n<p>He shared, &#8220;I would like to be part of, certainly at the beginning, adapting it for a more conventional place if we needed to do that in any territory,\u201d Adding, \u201cIf we did go to America, it would seem a shame not to build something really f-ing cool in Brooklyn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hunger Games: On Stage is currently booking until 25 October 2026. See what the critics are saying about the production <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/article\/Review-Roundup-What-Di-the-Critics-Think-of-THE-HUNGER-GAMES-ON-STAGE-20251113\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>]]><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t ]]><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"]]&gt; Based on the original Hunger Games story, The Hunger Games: On Stage is now playing in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-39871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39871","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=39871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}