Burnout Paradise tickets

Get Burnout Paradise tickets on New York Theatre Guide to experience the singular, thrilling, and hilarious return engagement of the global phenomenon. After playing at Edinburgh Fringe, debuting in North America at Brooklyn's St. Ann's Warehouse, and touring the country and world, the landmark play returns to New York City this winter and spring. Burnout Paradise plays at the Astor Place Theatre in downtown Manhattan.

In Burnout Paradise, what starts as a simple wager between audience and performer grows into something funnier, darker, and timelier. Can four performers complete a series of tasks while collectively running 20 kilometers on a treadmill? If they can't, the audience wins, and the tasks are funky: shampooing hair, reciting Hamlet's monologue, walking a dog (and picking up its poop). All of this reveals, in a staggering and messy spectacle, the stuff of daily life and how hard it is to balance multiple gigs, personal care, and professional growth in 2025. It's funny, and too real.

Burnout Paradise in New York comes from the Australian company Pony Cam and has been met with critical acclaim. New York Theatre Guide's review wrote the actors' "antics lead to expected hilarity as well as reflection: Can they get it all done before the clock runs out? Does it really matter if they miss a thing or two? Is the show more about proving to others that you can have it all, or proving it to yourself?" As the actors run headfirst into, instead of away from, their problems, grander themes emerge.

Claire Bird, Ava Campbell, William Strom, Dominic Weintraub, and Hugo Williams perform the New York remount of this special production. Chaotic and spontaneous, the performance breaks labor down into four categories for its sweating actors: admin, survival, leisure, and performance. Can they juggle it all? Find out before time runs out.