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King Lear

King Lear on Broadway, Glenda Jackson, Wendy Federman, Foolish Mortals Productions

Glenda Jackson, the Tony winner and two-time Academy Award winner stars in King Lear, which opened on Broadway to RAVE REVIEWS: 

  • “GLENDA JACKSON RULES. There’s a great actress on stage at The Cort Theatre. The only truly contemporary interpretation of Lear I’ve ever seen.” The New York Times
  • “GLENDA JACKSON IS EVERY INCH A KING.” The Guardian
  • “LONG LIVE THIS KING.” The Star Ledger
  • “GLENDA JACKSON IS THE KING OF BROADWAY.” Theatermania
  • “GLENDA JACKSON COMMANDS THE STAGE better than Lear commands his kingdom.” Newsweek
  • “KING LEAR” IS A KNOCK-OUT.” Deadline
  • “GLENDA JACKSON IS A LIVING LEGEND.” Newsday
  • “MALE OR FEMALE, GLENDA JACKSON IS THE BEST LEAR YOU’LL EVER SEE.” NY1
  • “GRADE A. THIS ‘KING LEAR’ IS A MASTER CLASS IN ACTING.” Entertainment
  • “GLENDA JACKSON SEEMS ALMOST SUPERHUMAN. She is a sight to behold.” The Daily News
  • “GLENDA JACKSON HITS THE BROADWAY AUDIENCE IN THE SOLAR PLEXUS, IN A PERFORMANCE OF SCALDING, RELENTLESS FORCE.” The Telegraph
King Lear on Broadway, Glenda Jackson, Wendy Federman Broadway Producer, Foolish Mortals Productions
Glenda Jackson

In William Shakespeare’s royal-family tragedy, the aging King Lear divides his estate between his three daughters, ultimately refusing his youngest and favorite her share because she won’t publicly admit her love for him. The decision leads to chaos and treachery within the kingdom and madness for its monarch.

“Glenda Jackson is the mightiest of them all,” says Ben Brantley of The New York Times. Don’t miss her in the mightiest role of all time – King Lear.

The Tony® and two-time Academy Award® winner plays Lear for 19 weeks only leading a cast that includes Tony winner Jayne Houdyshell (The Humans), Elizabeth Marvel (Other Desert Cities), Aisling O’Sullivan (Raw), Pedro Pascal (Game of Thrones), John Douglas Thompson (Jitney), and Golden Globe winner Ruth Wilson (The Affair)King Lear will feature an original score by the legendary composer Philip Glass.

Performances at The Cort Theatre, 138 West 48th Street, NYC. For more information and to purchase tickets,  please click here. 

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus

Nathan Lane, Gary on Broadway, Wendy Federman Broadway Producer, Foolish Mortals Productions

Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus is Taylor Mac’s new play where carnage and camp coexist — if not exactly in peace, then in a constructive dialectic. The comedy received one award!

GARY: A SEQUEL TO TITUS ANDRONICUS RECEIVED A DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD FOR:
Unique Contribution to the Theatre: Taylor Mac

In Gary, Taylor Mac’s singular world view intersects with Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus. In Mac’s extraordinary new play, set during the fall of the Roman Empire, the years of bloody battles are over. The civil war has ended. The country has been stolen by madmen, and there are casualties everywhere. And two very lowly servants – Lane and Martin – are charged with cleaning up the bodies. It’s the year 400 – but it feels like the end of the world.

Taylor Mac, (who uses “judy,” lowercase sic, not as a name but as a gender pronoun) is one of the most exciting theater artists of our time. Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus marks Mac’s highly anticipated Broadway debut. Mac is the conceiver/author/star of one of the most decorated and talked-about American cultural events in recent memory, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, as well as the author of the acclaimed play, Hir, and a MacArthur Fellow.

Wendy Federman with Multi-Tony Award Winner Nathan Lane.

The creative team includes four-time Tony Award winner Santo Loquasto (Scenic Design), Tony and Academy Award winner Ann Roth (Costume Design), and nine-time Tony Award winner Jules Fisher & three-time Tony Award winner Peggy Eisenhauer (Lighting Design).

Performances have concluded.

Hadestown

Hadestown

HADESTOWN is the acclaimed new musical by celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and Hadestown on Broadwayvisionary director Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) that reimagines a sweeping ancient tale as a timeless allegory for our world. The show has received 25 awards including a Tony Award for Best Musical!

HADESTOWN follows two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of king Hades and his wife Persephone – as it invites audiences on an epic journey to the underworld and back. Mitchell’s alluring melodies and poetic imagination pit nature against industry, faith against doubt, and love against fear. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and musicians, HADESTOWN delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience.

HADESTOWN Received 8 Tony Awards (2019)

  1. Best Musical
  2. Best Original Score: Music and Lyrics: Anaïs Mitchell
  3. Best Direction of a Musical: Rachel Chavkin
  4. Best Featured Actor in a Musical: André De Shields
  5. Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Rachel Hauck
  6. Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Bradley King
  7. Best Sound Design of a Musical: Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz
  8. Best Orchestrations: Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose

HADESTOWN Received 4 Drama Desk Awards (2019)

  1. Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: André De Shields
  2. Outstanding Lighting Design for a Musical: Bradley King
  3. Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Nevin Steinberg and Jessica Paz
  4. Outstanding Director of a Musical: Rachel Chavkin, Hadestown

HADESTOWN Received 1 Drama League Award (2019)

  1. Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical

HADESTOWN Received 1 Chita Rivera Award (2019)

HADESTOWN Received 6 Outer Critics Circle Awards (2019)

  1. Outstanding New Broadway Musical
  2. Outstanding New Score: Anais Mitchell
  3. Outstanding Director of a Musical: Rachel Chavkin
  4. Outstanding Lighting Design: Bradley King
  5. Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical: Andre’ De Shields
  6. Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Amber Gray

HADESTOWN Received 5 Theatre Fans’ Choice Awards (2019)

  1. Best Musical
  2. Best Direction of a Musical: Rachel Chavkin
  3. Best Leading Actress in a Musical: Eva Noblezada
  4. Best Orchestrations: Michael Chorney and Todd Sickafoose
  5. Best Score: Anais Mitchell

Tickets now on sale. Performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 W 48th St, NYC.  

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HADESTOWN opened on Broadway to incredible reviews:

"THE BEST NEW MUSICAL OF THE SEASON.” The Wall Street Journal

“SUMPTUOUS. HYPNOTIC. GORGEOUS.” The New York Times

“STUNNINGLY VISCERAL AND EXQUISITELY ORIGINAL.” NY1

“VISIONARY AND RAVISHING.” New York Magazine

“THE MOST THRILLING NEW MUSICAL OF THE SEASON” Deadline

“MUSICALITY YOU RARELY HEAR ON BROADWAY.” Rolling Stone

"Hadestown" receiving the Tony Award for Best Musical at the 73rd Annual Tony Awards Ceremony
Hadestown, Wendy Federman, Broadway Producer, Foolish Mortals Productions, Anais Mitchell
Wendy Federman with Anais Mitchell, the creative force behind the upcoming B’way musical, “Hadestown” at a benefit for the National Theatre.
Wendy Federman with Tony Award winner Andre De Shileds and her co-producing partners of "Hadestown"
Wendy Federman & Patrick Page celebrating their Best Musical Tony Award!
Wendy Federman congratulating "Hadestown" choreographer David Neumann for this Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography in a Broadway show

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

WINNER OF THREE TONY AWARDS INCLUDING:
1. Best Revival of a Play
2. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play: Andrew Garfield
3. Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play: Nathan Lane
 
THREE-TIME DRAMA DESK AWARD WINNER FOR:
1. Outstanding Revival of a Play
2. Outstanding Actor in a Play: Andrew Garfield

3. Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Nathan Lane

“Angels in America” accepting the Tony Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play.
 
DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD WINNER FOR:
Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play 
 
THREE-TIME OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR:
1. Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
2. Outstanding Actor in a Play: Andrew Garfield
3. Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play: Nathan Lane

The revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America opened on March 25, 2018 to rave reviews! This is the 25th anniversary production of this two-part, seven-and-a-half-hour multi-award-winning masterwork starring Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane in career-high performances.

  • “FLAT OUT FABULOUS! THE PRODUCTION THAT CONFIRMS ITS PLACE IN THE PANTHEON OF DRAMAS THAT STRETCH TOWARD THE HEAVENS. No work of theatre has quite matched its reach.” –The New York Times

    Wendy Federman and Tony Award winner Andrew Garfield.
  • “THERE IS NO DENYING ITS THEATRICAL BRILLIANCE, LITERARY AMBITION AND CULTURAL RELEVANCE. It is often just as romantic and hilarious as it is philosophic and intense.” -AM New York 
  • “PREPARE TO BE SHATTERED AND REBUILT.” –The Hollywood Reporter
  • “TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER ITS TONY-AND PULITZER-WINNING FIRST BROADWAY RUN, THE SCOPE AND RICHNESS OF THE SEVEN-HOUR, TWO-PART SAGA REMAIN AS IMPRESSIVE AS EVER.” –Daily News
  • “EACH CHARACTER, SO PRECISELY PLAYED, IS WORTHY OF INVESTMENT. This is seven and a half hours of luxurious dramatic immersion, and in no way arid or plodding.” –The Daily Beast,
  • “BRILLIANTLY ENTERTAINING. I’M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT YOUR INVESTMENT WILL COME BACK TO YOU IN THE CAPITAL GAINS OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND SUBLIME ENTERTAINMENT. Director Marianne Elliott’s riveting production, a transfer from London’s National Theatre, is the kind of bracing total immersion in
    Wendy Federman with Multi-Tony Award Winner Nathan Lane.

    fierce, funny drama that is nutrition for both intellect and soul.” –The Washington Post

  • “‘ANGELS IN AMERICA’ RETURNS TO BROADWAY, TIMELY AND TRIUMPHANT.” –Entertainment Weekly 
  • “5 Stars. THIS IS A PLAY THAT BREAKS AND FILLS YOUR HEART; IT INSPIRES YOU AS IT TAKES YOUR BREATH AWAY.” –TimeOut New York

Returning to Broadway for the first time since its now-legendary original production opened in 1993, this spectacular new staging of Part One of Angels in AmericaMillennium Approaches, and of Part Two, Perestroika, directed by Marianne Elliott, had its world premiere earlier this year in a sold-out run at the London National Theatre, where it became the fastest selling show in the organization’s history.

Starring multi-Tony Award winner Nathan Lane and Academy Award and Tony nominee Andrew Garfield, the cast of Angels in America features fellow original National Theatre cast members Susan Brown, Denise Gough, Amanda Lawrence, James McArdle, and Nathan Steware-Jarrett. Multi-Tony winner Marianne Elliott (War Horse) directs. 

Wendy Federman with Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tony Kushner.

 

As politically incendiary as any play in the American canon, Angels in America also manages to be hilariously irreverent and heartbreakingly humane. It is also astonishingly relevant, speaking every bit as urgently to our anxious times as it did to the early ’90s. Tackling Reaganism, McCarthyism, immigration, religion, climate change, and AIDS against the backdrop of New York City in the mid-1980s, no contemporary drama has succeeded so indisputably with so ambitious a scope. 

Angels in America won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, seven Tony Awards, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Evening Standard Award for Best New Play.

Performances at the Neil Simon Theatre, 250 West 52nd Street, New York City. 

For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.

Something Rotten!

  • Tony Award winner, Christian Borle, Best Featured Actor in a Musical
  • Drama Desk winner for Best Featured Actor in a Musical – Christian Borle

From the co-director of “The Book of Mormon” and the producer of “Avenue Q”, comes something original… something fresh… Something Rotten!

A world-premiere musical comedy about the musical comedy that started it all. Welcome to the ’90s – the 1590s – long before the dawn of premium tickets, star casting and reminders to turn off your cell phones. Brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock-star known as “The Bard.”

When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first MUSICAL! But amidst the scandalous excitement of Opening Night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self… and all that jazz.

With its heart on its ruffled sleeve and sequins in its soul, SOMETHING ROTTEN! is an uproarious dose of pure Broadway fun and an irresistible ode to musicals – those dazzling creations that entertain us, inspire us and remind us that everything’s better with an exclamation point!

  • “YEP, THIS IS A BLOCKBUSTER! IT BRINGS DOWN THE HOUSE!” –The New York Post
  • “SOMETHING ROTTEN IS THE PRODUCERS + SPAMALOT + THE BOOK OF MORMON x THE DROWSEY CHAPERONE SQUARED” –New York Magazine
  • “5 STARS – BROADWAY’S FUNNIEST, SPLASHIEST MUSICAL COMEDY IN AT LEAST 400 YEARS!” –Time Out
  • “I SMELL A HIT” –NY 1
  • “ORIGINAL AND HILARIOUS! EMBRACE THE EXCLAMATION POINT!” –Deadline

For more information and /or to purchase tickets, please go to www.rottenbroadway.com