Tickets are available now to see The Play That Goes Wrong at New World Stages.
The Olivier Award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong is a raucous affair on stage and a real-life, rags-to-riches tale offstage. Created by a group of LAMDA graduates who formed a troupe by the name of Mischief Theatre, The Play That Goes Wrong began its life on the London fringe with only four paying patrons, and then... did absolutely everything right! The comedy evolved itself into a West End production that would ultimately win an Olivier Award in 2015. A Broadway transfer was granted to the original London stars, which officially opened at the Lyceum Theatre on April 2, 2017, following previews from March 9. The Broadway production enjoyed a lengthy run, uncommon on the Great White Way for non-musical productions, and finally played its closing performance on January 6, 2019.
The mishaps are set to continue, however, as The Play That Goes Wrong moves off-Broadway to New World Stages, delighting audiences with its signature brand of physical comedy from February 11, 2019.
Mischief Theatre's other West End hits include Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery.
(Photos by Jeremy Daniel)
12 images The Play That Goes Wrong is a riotous comedy about the theatre. The play introduces The "Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society" who are attempting to put on a 1920s' murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong…does, as the accident prone thespians battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call.
And the chaos continues... Casting is now complete for the off-Broadway transfer of the hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong which, as previously announced, is set to begin previews at New World Stages on February 11 and officially re-open on February 20, 2019.
Producers of The Play That Goes Wrong have announced that the production is to transfer off-Broadway from the Lyceum Theatre to New World Stages next year. The Play That Goes Wrong will play its final Broadway performance on January 6, 2019, after a total of 745 performances. The production will then continue at New World Stages with previews from February 11 and an official re-opening on February 20, 2019.
As the Broadway premiere of The Play That Goes Wrong hurtles in a customary accident-prone fashion towards its final performance at the Lyceum Theatre on January 6, 2019, we thought it was high time this most delightful of British comedies take part in our "5 Questions from Over the Pond" feature! And what better way to celebrate all the intentional mishaps of Broadway's (currently) longest-running play than to pair up the two talented actors who are currently playing Chris Bean on both sides of the Atlantic?
Halfway through the first act of the hilarious off-Broadway staging of The Play That Goes Wrong, an actor who has grown wildly frustrated because of a missing prop turns to the audience and says, “Stop laughing! This isn’t television, I can see you.” The demand, naturally, only makes the audience laugh harder. And that is an impressive feat given that the chuckles had been pouring forth... Read more
There is always room in life for a good laugh. But these days, living in what I call a parallel universe where the government is a barrel of rabid monkeys led by a carnival barker, laughter is essential. And I have the perfect remedy for you – go see this play. There is NOTHING wrong with The Play That Goes Wrong. Unless you got something against laughing.
