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Rock on! And on! And on! Broadway currently sports three very different shows featuring rock music, a diverse and exciting genre that never gets old. Not to mention, the shows feature rock legends like Pete Townshend, Huey Lewis, and (sort of) Fleetwood Mac.

These shows include the new musical [*The Heart of Rock and Roll*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/36584-the-heart-of-rock-and-roll) at the [James Earl Jones...

Rock music takes the stage in three Broadway shows this spring

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Songs by rock bands The Who and Huey Lewis and The News appear in high-energy musicals alongside a new play with music inspired by the 1970s rock scene.

Welcome to the Russian countryside! Here's your first look at [*Uncle Vanya*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/33211-uncle-vanya) on Broadway, with [Steve Carell](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/steve-carell) making his Broadway debut in the title role. The starry cast, directed by Lila Neugebauer, also includes [Anika Noni Rose](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/anika-noni-rose) (*Caroline, or Change*), [Alfred...

See photos of Steve Carell and the cast of 'Uncle Vanya' on Broadway

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The star of *The Office* makes his Broadway debut in the latest revival of the classic play, which also stars Anika Noni Rose, Alfred Molina, and more.

You're gonna hear her roar! Maya Boyd will be the next Juliet in [*& Juliet*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/25598-and-juliet-tickets) on Broadway, beginning performances on May 14 at the [Stephen Sondheim Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/stephen-sondheim-theatre).

Boyd made her Broadway debut earlier this year in the cast of *Merrily We Roll Along*. In *& Juliet*, she will now replace [Lorna...

Maya Boyd to join '& Juliet' Broadway cast

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After making her Broadway debut earlier this year, the actor will now replace Tony Award nominee Lorna Courtney in the title role of the acclaimed musical.

See two stars, alike in dignity! [Rachel Zegler](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/rachel-zegler) and [Kit Connor](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/kit-connor) will lead a new revival of [*Romeo + Juliet*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/40696-romeo-and-juliet-on-broadway) on Broadway. The Shakespeare production, directed by Sam Gold, will run this fall, with a theatre and dates to be announced.

Zegler is best known for starring as Maria in Steven...

Rachel Zegler, Kit Connor to star in ‘Romeo + Juliet’ on Broadway

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The *West Side Story* and *Heartstopper* stars will play Shakespeare’s tragic young lovers in the production, which features music by Jack Antonoff.

As the star of *The Office*, [Steve Carell](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/steve-carell) may be known for his comedic chops, but the roles he's played since that show’s Emmy Award-winning run have shown he can do so much more. He earned an Oscar nomination for playing a maniacal wrestling coach in *Foxcatcher*, played the father of a drug addict (played by Timothée Chalamet) in *Beautiful Boy*, and now makes his Broadway debut in the title role in Anton Chekhov’s [*Uncle...

All the celebrities who have starred in 'Uncle Vanya,' including Steve Carell

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The award-winning actor, best known for starring in *The Office*, is the latest person to tackle the coveted title role of Chekhov's classic family drama.

Great news for Huey Lewis fans: You can hear his music live again. For the first time since Meniere's disease impaired the '80s rock star's ability to hear music, forcing him to stop performing with his band The News, his songs are back on not one stage, but two.

Lewis isn't singing them, but those familiar with the Huey Lewis and The News hits "The Power of Love" and "Back in Time" will thrill to hear them nonetheless. Both those songs appear in this season's Broadway musical adaptation of...

How Huey Lewis shaped 'The Heart of Rock and Roll' on Broadway

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The new musical is set to nearly 30 hits by Huey Lewis and The News, and the band's frontman was a crucial and active collaborator throughout its journey.

Family trees are in bloom on Broadway this spring. Beginning with Joshua Harmon’s *Prayer for the French Republic* at the top of the year, numerous family dramas have proved the staying power of the fertile, timeless genre. Not to mention, these shows' families include the likes of actors Steve Carell, Jessica Lange, and Sarah Paulson.

Playing right now are Paula Vogel’s [*Mother Play*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/31354-mother-play-on-broadway) at the [Hayes...

Learn about all the family dramas on Broadway this season

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Each play in the genre is just as unique as any given family, as evidenced by this spring's star-studded shows *Mother Play*, *Appropriate*, and *Uncle Vanya*.

And they were roommates! Per an April 11 [report from the New York Post](https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/entertainment/patti-lupone-mia-farrow-to-star-in-broadways-the-roommate/), three-time Tony Award winner [Patti LuPone](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/patti-lupone) and seven-time Golden Globe nominee Mia Farrow will co-star in the new Broadway play *The Roommate* this fall. According to the report, performances will run at the [Booth...

Patti LuPone, Mia Farrow reported to star in 'The Roommate' on Broadway

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According to a report in the New York Post, the actresses will perform in the 2015 play by Jen Silverman for a limited engagement beginning in August.

Home to historic rock bands like The Velvet Underground and The Ramones, New York City is a rock and roll lover’s paradise. Even though many of the popular venues that used to host rock and punk artists in the ‘60s and ‘70s have since closed, there are still plenty of ways to enjoy the history of rock and roll while visiting New York City. 

Take your own rock-and-roll tour of NYC with these classic rock attractions, with something for every rock fan. Pick up some records; pay homage to late,...

Check out these classic rock musicals and attractions in NYC

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Make a day out of seeing a rock show on Broadway, including *The Who's Tommy*, Huey Lewis's *The Heart of Rock and Roll*, or the '70s rock-inspired *Stereophonic*.

Photos have been released of [*Patriots*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/38891-patriots) on Broadway, starring *Boardwalk Empire* and *Dopesick*'s [Michael Stuhlbarg](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/michael-stuhlbarg). Russia meets New York at the [Barrymore Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/barrymore-theatre), where this new play by Peter Morgan is in performances through June 23.

The playwright, who created Netflix's Emmy Award-winning show...

See photos of Michael Stuhlbarg and the cast of 'Patriots' on Broadway

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The Emmy and Tony Award-nominated actor stars as the late Russian politician Boris Berezovsky in the newest play from the creator of Netflix's *The Crown*.

Tony Award winner and Emmy nominee Jason Alexander will make his Broadway directorial debut this summer with [*The Cottage*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/27834-the-cottage-tickets), a new play by Sandy Rustin. Performances will run from July 7 to October 29 at the [Hayes Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/hayes-theater), with opening night on July 24.

Alexander has performed in six Broadway shows in the past, winning a Tony for *Jerome Robbins' Broadway*. He is also known for screen roles in *Seinfeld*, *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel*, *Pretty Woman*, and many more, and has also directed for TV.

In *The Cottage*, he directs a cast led by Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, and Lilli Cooper. McCormack is an Emmy Award winner for playing Will Truman in *Will & Grace*, and Cooper is a Tony nominee for playing Julie in *Tootsie* and was most recently seen in *POTUS* on Broadway in 2022. Bundy makes her first return to Broadway since her Tony-nominated performance as Elle Woods in 2007's *Legally Blonde* musical.

Additional casting has yet to be announced.

*The Cottage* is a farce inspired by the works of Noel Coward and takes place in 1923 England. A woman decides to reveal her extramarital affair to both her husband and her lover's wife, setting off a chain of secrets that get revealed with funny, and potentially murderous, results.

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Jason Alexander makes his Broadway directorial debut with *The Cottage*, a new play starring Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, and Lilli Cooper. Check back for information on *The Cottage* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

*The Cottage* is a play about a married woman having an extramarital affair with a married man. She decides to come clean to her husband and her lover's wife at the same time. More revelations ensue from there, bringing about plenty of humor — along with potentially deadly twists.

This farce, by Broadway-debut playwright Sandy Rustin (also known for writing the 2022 stage adaptation of *Clue*), is inspired by the works of celebrated writer Noël Coward. Coward's comedies often take place among the high society of early 20th-century England he experienced firsthand. Likewise, Rustin's comedy is set in the English countryside in 1923.

Leading the cast of *The Cottage* in New York is a trio of veteran stage and screen talent. Returning to Broadway for the first time since 2012 is Eric McCormack, who's best known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Will Truman on *Will & Grace*. Also making a grand return to Broadway is Tony nominee Laura Bell Bundy, who last starred as Elle Woods in *Legally Blonde: The Musical* from 2007-2008.

Rounding out the trio is Lilli Cooper, who performed in a different Broadway farce, Selina Fillinger's *POTUS*, last summer. She's also a Tony nominee for the *Tootsie* musical and has performed in *Spring Awakening*, *Wicked*, and *SpongeBob SquarePants*.

## Who is Jason Alexander?

Jason Alexander is an actor and director best known for starring as George Costanza on *Seinfeld*. In his 40-plus-year entertainment career, Alexander has also become known for playing Phillip Stuckey in *Pretty Woman*, Hugo in *The Hunchback of Notre Dame*, and Asher Friedman on *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel*. He is also an Emmy and Tony Award winner, having appeared in numerous other screen projects and six Broadway shows.

Alexander has also directed films and episodes of TV shows including *Criminal Minds* and *Young Sheldon*. He makes his Broadway directorial debut with *The Cottage*.

Check back for information on tickets to *The Cottage* on Broadway.

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Get tickets to The Cottage on Broadway from the official New York Theatre Guide. Prepare to laugh at this new farce directed by Seinfeld's Jason Alexander.

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Jason Alexander directs this new farce starring Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, and Lilli Cooper. A woman reveals her affair to her husband and her lover's wife, yielding potentially deadly results. Learn more about tickets to The Cottage, on Broadway for a limited time this summer.

*Jason Alexander* has directed for the screen and stage before, but he makes his Broadway directorial debut with *The Cottage*. He's performed in six Broadway shows, winning a Tony for *Jerome Robbins' Broadway* in 1989, but he's best known as Jerry's best friend George Costanza on the classic sitcom *Seinfeld*.

In *The Cottage*, he directs a cast of fellow comedy aces with Emmy and Tony honors to their name. You likely know Eric McCormack best as Will Truman on *Will & Grace*, for which he won an Emmy and earned several award nominations, and Alex Moffat for his stellar impression of President Joe Biden and more on *SNL*. Laura Bell Bundy and Lilli Cooper are both Tony nominees: Bundy was nominated for playing Elle Woods in *Legally Blonde* and Cooper for Julie Nichols in *Tootsie*. 
## What to Watch For

- Jason Alexander made his Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's *Merrily We Roll Along* in 1981. That musical will have its first Broadway revival in fall 2023, just as *The Cottage* wraps up.
- *The Cottage* is inspired by the plays of Noël Coward, who wrote comedies of manners set in early 20th-century England.
- Two actors in *The Cottage* return to Broadway after long hiatuses. McCormack last appeared in *The Best Man* in 2012, and Bundy in *Legally Blonde* in 2007.
- Rustin is no stranger to period comedies. She adapted Jonathan Lynn’s screenplay for *Clue*, the 1950s-set comedy whodunnit, into a 2022 play. American Theatre magazine recognized Rustin’s adaptation of *Clue* as one of the most produced shows of the 2022-23 season.
- Rustin also wrote the book for a new musical adaptation of the hit Julia Roberts film *Mystic Pizza*.

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A tangle of extramarital affairs unravels — along with plenty of other secrets — under one roof at this new, old-fashioned farce. See a starry cast including Eric McCormack, Alex Moffat, and Laura Bell Bundy, directed by Jason Alexander.

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Directed by Jason Alexander, this Noel Coward-inspired farce stars Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, Alex Moffat, and more in a tale of multiple marital infidelities with potential life-or-death stakes.

[*The Cottage*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/27834-the-cottage-tickets) is an airy — and gassy — comedy about cheating. Sandy Rustin wrote the play with a single-minded mission — to keep you in stitches — and it largely hits the mark. 

Now on Broadway a decade after it premiered in Queens, the play’s laughs and momentum do dip on occasion. Nonetheless, the cast consistently manages to make infidelity entertaining. Even when someone pulls a gun.

It’s 1923 in an English country house. Don’t let the posh locale fool you, nor that Noël Coward has been cited as an inspiration for this rom-com: Nobody’s here to mind their upper-crust manners. The onstage curtain at the [Hayes Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/hayes-theater) teases this. At first glance, you see a garden of colorful wildflowers outside the house. Soon, your eye catches squirrels boinking here and deer doing it there. It mirrors what goes on inside.

Since 1917, Sylvia ([Laura Bell Bundy](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/interviews/laura-bell-bundy-returns-to-broadway-after-15-years-in-the-cottage)) and Beau (*Will & Grace*'s Eric McCormack), who are married to other people, have carried on a *Same Time, Next Year*-style annual one-night tryst at his widowed mother’s country home decorated with animal heads. The sly implications of that decor eventually become clear. It’s always been a place about notching trophies.

It’s the morning after “passionate, wildly erotic sex.” Beau’s showering. Sylvia wears lingerie and is lit by afterglow. Per usual, he calls her Tulip, an endearment that makes her weak in the knees. But something’s different. Sylvia’s got a seven-year itch. She wants Beau to herself full-time. She has sent a telegram to her husband, Clarke (Alex Moffat, of *Saturday Night Live*), and Beau’s wife, Marjorie (Lilli Cooper), to tell them what’s going on.

In short order, they come to the love shack. The place gets even more crowded with the arrival of Deirdre (Dana Steingold) and her ex-husband Richard (Nehal Joshi). To reveal more about their interconnections and plot twists would be a killjoy. Suffice it to say there's a daisy chain of dalliances – and one link is way too close for comfort. 

Of course, that’s the point. For laughs' sake, the situation is over-the-top. Rustin raids the comedy playbook for the pure sake of humor. She includes an extended fart joke, bad puns, an ongoing gag about cigarettes and booze popping up in unexpected places, a potential murder plot (hence the gun), and a truly dopey dime-store disguise. 

“You stuck a mustache on a mustache?” asks a gobsmacked Sylvia. It’s absurd and funny, and it gets to the core of this layer cake of a comedy. Can’t have too much of a good thing. 

Jason Alexander, a *Seinfeld* alum who won a Tony for *Jerome Robbins’ Broadway*, impresses in his Broadway directing debut. He’s [assembled an ace ensemble](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/stars-of-will-and-grace-snl-legally-blonde-move-into-the-cottage-on-broadway), keeps the pace reasonably revved, and wrapped it up in a good-looking production. One quibble – he overplays his hand with grandly silly music and light cues as characters make entrances.

McCormack hams it up expertly as the haughty Beau. Cooper slow-burns until Marjorie gets a moment to let it all rip. Broadway newcomer Moffat steps up as the klutzy charmer. Best of the bunch is Bundy, who makes every comedic line and pose gleefully giggle-inducing. 

In the end, *The Cottage* is about Sylvia opening her eyes to her relationships with men. But the moment that sticks out is the hilarious sight of Sylvia plugging her nose with an old-timey phone receiver. Moments like that make *The Cottage* a Broadway funhouse.

[*The Cottage* is at the Hayes Theater until October 29. Get tickets to *The Cottage* at New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/27834-the-cottage-tickets)

*Photo credit: Nehal Joshi, Alex Moffat, Laura Bell Bundy, Eric McCormack, and Dana Steingold in The Cottage. (Photo by Joan Marcus)*

'The Cottage' review — an over-the-top comedy funhouse

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Read our four-star review of *The Cottage*, written by Sandy Rustin and directed by Jason Alexander, on Broadway at the Hayes Theater through October 29.

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The Hayes Theater officially opened as The Little Theatre on March 12, 1912. The building was designed by Harry Creighton Ingalls and built by Winthrop Ames, opening with John Galsworthy's play *The Pigeon*.

During the 1920s, the theatre was redesigned by Herbert J. Krapp to increase the capacity from 300 to 590. The New York Times purchased the building in 1931, converting it to a conference hall under the name of New York Times Hall.

In 1979, Martin Markinson and Donald Tick bought the theatre and renamed it in 1983 to the Helen Hayes Theatre to honor the actress. A previous theatre bearing her name was demolished in 1982 to make way for the Marriott Marquis Hotel.

On April 18, 2015, it was officially announced that Second Stage Theater had purchased the property. It was later revealed that the venue would be renamed the Hayes Theater, and it opened in spring 2018. The Hayes Theater is the smallest Broadway theatre, now with 597 seats.

## How to get to the Hayes Theater on Broadway

The Hayes Theater, located on 44th Street between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, is closest to the 42nd Street - Port Authority subway stop on the A, C, and E lines. Additionally, the nearest bus stops are 8th Ave/W 46th St. on the M20 and M104 lines; 7th Ave/W. 44th St. on the M104 line; and 8th Ave/W 43rd St. on the M20, M104, and M34A-SBS lines.

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