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The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window Starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window Starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan Tickets

The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window Starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan Tickets

Brooklyn
4 Feb 2023 - 24 Mar 2023
See Rachel Brosnahan and Oscar Isaac on stage for a limited time only.
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The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window Starring Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan Information

Golden Globe Award winner Oscar Isaac and Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan star in Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Check back for information on The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window is a play about a couple living in Greenwich Village in the 1960s. They and their friends, particularly Sidney, are staunch in their progressive beliefs and dreams, even though they're far from realistic. Sidney's marriage to his wife Iris, which thrives on passion and wit, is put to the ultimate test when he gets involved with a local political campaign that threatens to change them both.

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window premiered on Broadway in 1964 and was briefly revived in 1972. Gabriel Dell and Rita Moreno starred in the original production, and Hal Linden and Zohra Lampert led the revival. The 1964 premiere was the second, and last, show of Hansberry's to premiere on Broadway before her death at 34; A Raisin in the Sun, her most famous work, was the first.

The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window has not been revived on a major New York stage since those two early productions. Director Anne Kauffman revived the show in 2016 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, and she returns to direct The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window off Broadway.

Starring as Sidney this time around is Oscar Isaac, who won a Golden Globe Award for starring in Show Me a Hero and is also known for roles in Marvel's Moon Knight, the most recent Star Wars trilogy, Scenes From a Marriage, and Inside Llewyn Davis.

Opposite Isaac as Iris is Rachel Brosnahan, the Emmy Award-winning title star of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. She is also known for screen appearances in Dead for a Dollar and I'm Your Woman.

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Run time

2 hr 45 min (incl. intermission)

Opening date

February 4th, 2023

Closing date

March 24th, 2023

Categories

Plays

Previews from

February 4th, 2023

Venue

Harvey Theater at BAM Strong

Cast and creative

By: Lorraine Hansberry
Director: Anne Kauffman
Producer: Brooklyn Academy of Music
Cast list: Oscar Isaac (as Sidney Brustein), Rachel Brosnahan (as Iris Brustein), Gus Birney (as Gloria Parodus), Julian De Niro (as Alton Scales), Glenn Fitzgerald (as David Ragin), Andy Grotelueschen (as Wally O’Hara), Miriam Silverman (as Mavis Parodus Bryson), Raphael Nash Thompson (as Max)
Design: dots
Costumes: Brenda Abbandandolo
Lighting: John Torres
Sound: Bray Poor
Other info: Dramaturgy by Arminda Thomas, wig design by Leah Loukas, props by Andrew Diaz, vocal coaching by Kate Wilson

Our review

Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 drama The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window hasn't had a major New York revival in 50 years. That fact alone would make this play, which premiered on Broadway five years after A Raisin in the Sun, an event. Add Oscar Isaac as Sidney and Rachel Brosnahan as his wife, Iris, and the magnetism intensifies. Despite the rarity factor and the pair of marquee stars, director Anne Kauffman’s revival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is a modestly engaging production of a...

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Take a look into the window! New photos have been released of The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, starring Rachel Brosnahan and Oscar Isaac, ahead of the show's official opening tonight. Lorraine Hansberry wrote The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, which premiered shortly after her most famous work, A Raisin in the Sun, but has seldom been revived since. This production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, directed by Anne Kauffman, is the first major New York revival in 50 years. Isaac (Star...

Those willing to venture out to Brooklyn will find one of the starriest must-see shows beyond Broadway. For six weeks only, through March 19, the Brooklyn Academy of Music hosts Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window at its Harvey Theater. This celebrated work, a lesser-known masterpiece by the A Raisin in the Sun playwright, receives its first New York revival in 50 years with two A-listers on the marquee. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan play Sidney and Iris Brustein, a...

The Brooklyn Academy of Music has set the full cast for its production of Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. Performances begin at the BAM Harvey Theater on February 4 ahead of a February 23 opening night. Starring alongside the previously announced Oscar Isaac as Sidney Brustein and Rachel Brosnahan as Iris Brustein are Gus Birney as Gloria Parodus, Julian De Niro as Alton Scales, Glenn Fitzgerald as David Ragin, Andy Grotelueschen as Wally O’Hara, Miriam Silverman as...

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