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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*.

Signature Theatre has added a new play to its spring season. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's [*The Comeuppance*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/28235-the-comeuppance-tickets) will run at the [Pershing Square Signature Center](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/pershing-square-signature-center) from May 16 to June 25, replacing the playwright's previously announced production, *Grass*.

Directed by Eric Ting, *The Comeuppance* is a dark comedy that centers on a self-proclaimed “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group.” They meet up to pregame before attending their 20-year high school reunion. Death looms over their gathering as they drink, play a truth-telling game, and rediscover each other anew.

Jacobs-Jenkins is known for plays including *Girls*, *Everybody*, and the Obie Award-winning *An Octoroon*, as well as for writing, executive producing, and showrunning the FX/Hulu series *Kindred*. Ting returns off Broadway just months after directing *The Far Country* at Atlantic Theater Company.

*The Comeuppance* is the final production in Signature's spring season. Currently, the company is showing its winter productions, *A Bright New Boise* and *Letters From Max*.

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Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins debuts his latest play, *The Comeuppance*, to finish out Signature Theatre's 2022-23 season. Get *The Comeuppance* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

*The Comeuppance* is a play set just before a 20-year high school reunion, when some of the former classmates gather to pregame first. Self-described as the “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” of their class, they rediscover each other's old selves — and drinks, drugs, and a truth-telling game reveal how they've all changed. But there's another guest lurking among them: Death, who narrates their fates throughout this dark comedy.

*The Comeuppance* replaces a previously announced production of *Grass*, another world-premiere play Jacobs-Jenkins was set to write and direct. For *The Comeuppance* off Broadway, Jacobs-Jenkins hands off directorial duties to Eric Ting, who staged Lloyd Suh's *The Far Country* with Atlantic Theater Company earlier this season.

Jacobs-Jenkins is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for his plays *Everybody* and *Gloria*, and he's also a two-time Obie Award winner for *Appropriate* and *An Octoroon*. He has a longstanding residency at Signature Theatre; *Appropriate* and *Everybody* both premiered there.

His plays are known for putting a contemporary, experimental twist on classic shows, but others, like *The Comeuppance*, feature fully original plots.

Get your comeuppance when you get *The Comeuppance* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

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Find dates and book tickets to see the show The Comeuppance at Pershing Square Signature Center from New York Theatre Guide.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins premieres his latest play at Signature Theatre. Join the reunion of the “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group,” a band of old friends who face their darkly comedic fates before a high school reunion. Learn more about tickets now.

Join the reunion at the latest play from Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Get *The Comeuppance* tickets now, and watch a revelatory high school reunion unfold.

*The Comeuppance* play isn't exactly set at the reunion, though, but right before it, when a small group of old classmates get together to pregame. They all used to have lots in common, but everything they shared is just a memory now. The group now includes a former politician's wife, an overworked NYC journalist, a veteran Marine; an expat artist, and a familial caretaker. None are particularly happy with their lives, so dark truths come out over alcohol and not-so-innocent games.

Jacobs-Jenkins is best known for his Obie-winning play *An Octoroon* and his Pulitzer-nominated plays *Gloria* and *Everybody*. For *The Comeuppance* off Broadway, he teams up with director Eric Ting, who most recently directed the world premiere of Lloyd Suh's Pulitzer-nominated play *The Far Country*.

Get your comeuppance — and get your tickets — at *The Comeuppance* in New York.

## What to Watch For

- Death is a narrator in the play, describing the character's pasts and futures.
- The play's characters call themselves the “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” of their old high school.
- Director Eric Ting and actor Shannon Tyo reunite for the second time this season on *The Comeuppance* — they collaborated on *The Far Country* at Atlantic Theater Company in winter 2022.
- *The Comeuppance* caps off Jacobs-Jenkins's 10-year residency at Signature Theatre, to write and premiere multiple new plays for the company.
- Jacobs-Jenkins also premiered his plays *Everybody*, *Appropriate*, and *The Somonyng of Everyman* with Signature as part of his residency.

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A specter of Death looms over [*The Comeuppance*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/28235-the-comeuppance-tickets), the much-anticipated new play from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at [Signature Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/pershing-square-signature-center), but the candidates all feel too obvious to be chosen. Will the depressed artist die, or the diabetic whose symptoms are rapidly increasing? How about the unstable, PTSD-laden veteran, or the anesthesiologist with an alcohol problem? The show is a puzzle begging you to solve it and clocking your distraction as you try.

Death, who inhabits the characters at various points, becomes a reprieve from the awkward tension of missed connections and the escalation of conflict as Emilio (Caleb Eberhardt) tears everyone down, determined to destroy what remains of his relationships.

Emilio is smart and apparently a great artist, but he is also insufferable, spouting off societal observations like he’s the first to ever voice them. He is sometimes oblivious to his patronizing tone, though sometimes seems aware of how much he hurts his old friends, goading them until they snap. He directs much of his ire at Caitlin (Susannah Flood), his former best friend and confidante whom he now resents for marrying a “shithead” instead of him. 

Though the friends gather together for their 20th high school reunion, they remain alone. Caitlin has lost her husband to online conspiracy theories, Emilio harbors a secret about his own relationship, Ursula’s (Brittany Bradford) social life shrank since she lost vision in one eye, and Kristina (Shannon Tyo) shunned her husband and turned to alcohol to cope with the trauma of intubating Covid patients.

The only one who insists he’s fine is Paco (Bobby Moreno), a veteran and Caitlin’s high school boyfriend who shows up at the pre-reunion gathering unannounced. (“But he wasn’t in our class,” Emilio protests when Kristina drags Paco, who is also her cousin, to the nostalgia-laden party on Ursula’s porch.) Though 20 years have gone by, Emilio remains obsessed with his friend group’s identity as MERGE, the Multi-Ethnic Reject Group Experience, a moniker he’s apparently clung to while his friends have grown up and moved on (though most have remained in their hometown).

Jacobs-Jenkins’s characters employ an ironic device when one believes another is “harshing the buzz” or “rambling”: They pretend to kill each other, snapping their necks and stabbing one another when someone’s joke gets old or they’re too stoned to know how long they’ve been talking. No one took this approach to Jacobs-Jenkins’s script, though director Eric Ting cut at least 10 minutes of runtime before press performances. Though its dialogue is sharp and its characters memorable, *The Comeuppance* tries to hold down too many conversations at once, stretching an arm into every pot. 

Not every thread ties up in the end; Emilio’s fixation on the Columbine shooting comes through in both his hatred of the military and his violent outbursts, but a tale of his desire to photograph reactions to the September 11 attacks falls flat. In the story, told via phone by Simon, a friend who couldn’t make the reunion, Emilio seizes on the news of 9/11 as an opportunity to document the reactions of his classmates, hoping he can win a Pulitzer Prize. He regrets the incident now.

So why include it? Emilio laments that he abandoned photography because he “got tired of realism,” but Jacobs-Jenkins has Simon list current events in a monologue: Trump, Covid, Roe v. Wade, phenomena both the characters and audience already understand. Is Emilio trying to distance himself from such obviousness in his own art, or is he embracing it? *The Comeuppance* is in some ways a beautiful meditation on millennial angst and in other ways an unfinished and wavering examination of it. At least it presents its questions in a visually interesting, genre-bending manner, with a reminder that Death becomes all of us.

[*The Comeuppance* is at the Pershing Square Signature Center through June 25. Get *The Comeuppance* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/28235-the-comeuppance-tickets)

*Photo credit: Bobby Moreno, Shannon Tyo, Susannah Flood, Brittany Bradford, and Caleb Eberhardt (clockwise) in The Comeuppance. (Photo by Monique Carboni)*

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Read our four-star review of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's *The Comeuppance* off Broadway, now playing at the Pershing Square Signature Center through June 25.

James Houghton founded and established Signature Theatre Company in 19991. The company was famed for devoting whole seasons of programming to a singular playwright. Since 2012, Signature has presented works by multiple playwrights in the same season with the introduction of residency and legacy programs.

In October 2008, plans emerged to construct The Pershing Square Signature Center to house all of Signature Theatre’s productions. The Off-Broadway complex, designed by Frank Gehry, finally opened in 2012. The complex contains three performance spaces, two rehearsal studios, and a communal area complete with a café, bar and bookstore.

The Irene Diamond Stage is the largest theatre with a capacity of 294 seats, while the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre contains 191 seats. The adaptable Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre can hold 199-250 people, depending on whether the production uses a thrust, alley or end stage format.

The Pershing Square Center’s performance spaces are also available to rent. Renowned Off-Broadway production company The New Group most often presents its new productions in the complex.

## How to get to the Pershing Square Signature Center off Broadway

The Pershing Square Signature Center is closest to the 42nd St. - Port Authority subway stop on the A, C, and E lines. The closest bus stops are 9 Av./W 42 St. on the M11 and M34A-SBS lines and 10 Av./W 42 St. on the M11 line.

## Restaurants near Signature Theatre

Popular restaurants near the Pershing Square Signature Center, which houses Signature Theatre productions, include Chez Josephine (French), Serafina (Italian), Pio Pio 8 (Peruvian), and Mémé Mediterranean. 

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