### Event Description: Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends - Broadway Premiere

**Event:** Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends  
**Venue:** Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Broadway  
**Season:** Spring 2025  
**Presented by:** Manhattan Theatre Club, in association with CMI and Daryl Roth  
**Production by:** Cameron Mackintosh  

**Starring:**  
- Bernadette Peters (Tony Award Winner)  
- Lea Salonga (Tony Award Winner)  

**Creative Team:**  
- **Music & Lyrics:** Stephen Sondheim  
- **Devised by:** Cameron Mackintosh  
- **Musical Staging and Direction:** Matthew Bourne  
- **Side by Side with:** Julia McKenzie  
- **Choreography:** Stephen Mear  

**Event Highlights:**  
Celebrate one of Broadway’s true icons with this legendary theatrical event, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends. This production is an irresistible celebration of the master himself, featuring a stellar company headlined by Tony Award winners Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga. The show comes to Broadway from London’s West End, where it earned a bevy of 5-star reviews and was hailed by The Times as unmissable musical theatre.

**Ticket Information:**  
Tickets for this show will go on sale at a later date. The only way to secure your seat today is by becoming an MTC Subscriber or Patron.  

**Additional Information:**  
Center Theatre Group will present the North American premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in advance of the Broadway premiere.

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Don't miss the chance to witness this extraordinary celebration of Stephen Sondheim's legacy on Broadway!

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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Manhattan Theatre Club

### Eureka Day - Manhattan Theatre Club

**Event:** Eureka Day  
**Venue:** Samuel J. Friedman Theatre  
**Dates:** Fall 2024 on Broadway  
**Playwright:** Jonathan Spector  
**Director:** Anna D. Shapiro  

**Description:**
Join us for the highly anticipated Broadway production of "Eureka Day," a play that is both wildly relevant and bitingly funny. Written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Anna D. Shapiro, this new production follows an acclaimed run in London. 

Set in a private California elementary school, "Eureka Day" centers around a Board of Directors that prides itself on its commitment to inclusion. However, when a mumps outbreak occurs, the community is forced to confront the school's liberal vaccine policy. As the number of cases rises, the board faces the difficult task of making a decision that is bound to displease some members of the community.

**Ticket Information:**
Tickets for "Eureka Day" will go on sale in Summer 2024. To secure your seat today, consider becoming an MTC Subscriber or Patron.

**Production Credits:**
"Eureka Day" is produced by special arrangement with Sonia Friedman Productions, Wagner Johnson Productions, and Seaview.

Don't miss this thought-provoking and timely play that challenges the notions of community and individual choice. Subscribe now to ensure you don't miss out on this compelling theatrical experience.

Eureka Day

### Event Description: Vladimir - Manhattan Theatre Club

**Event:** Vladimir  
**Venue:** New York City Center Stage I  
**Season:** 2024-2025  
**Premiere:** Fall 2024 Off-Broadway  
**Written by:** Erika Sheffer  
**Directed by:** Daniel Sullivan  

**Description:**
Experience the haunting world premiere of "Vladimir," a gripping drama set in Moscow during Putin’s first term. This powerful play follows an independent journalist as she navigates the perilous landscape of political reporting, struggling to maintain her sanity and hope amidst growing hostility. As she edges closer to an explosive story, the mounting danger forces her to question whether her courage will have any impact on her nation's dire trajectory. "Vladimir" is a compelling narrative about the cost of standing up to immorality in the face of impending disaster.

**Ticket Information:**
Tickets for "Vladimir" will be available for purchase starting Summer 2024. To secure your seat today, consider becoming an MTC Subscriber or Patron.

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**Creative Team:**
- **Playwright:** Erika Sheffer
- **Director:** Daniel Sullivan (Tony Award Winner)

Don't miss this thought-provoking premiere that promises to be a highlight of the 2024-2025 Off-Broadway season.

Vladimir

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in the Broadway premiere of MARY JANE, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog (4000 Miles, the recent Tony-nominated adaptation of A Doll’s House). Captivating, affecting and compassionate, it’s the story of a single mother in an impossible family situation. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, Mary Jane relies on unflagging optimism and humor, along with the wisdom of the women around her who have become a makeshift family, to take on each new day. But will inner strength and newfound friendships be enough to see her through? The New York Times calls Mary Jane “the most profound of Herzog’s many fine plays.” And The New Yorker raves, “beautiful and remarkable... Herzog has made theatre that shines.” Directing is the acclaimed Anne Kauffman (The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window).

Mary Jane

 comes to vivid life on Broadway in a unique, spectacle-filled new musical. After losing what matters most, a young man jumps a moving train unsure of where the road will take him. He finds a new home with the remarkable crew of a traveling circus and a life—and love—beyond his wildest dreams. Seen through the eyes of his older self, his youthful adventure becomes a poignant reminder that if you choose the ride, life can begin again at any age.

Water for Elephants

John Patrick Shanley, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning author of Doubt and the Oscar®-winning writer of Moonstruck, returns to MTC with this world premiere of a new play. Sometimes big things start from little things; in this case, a bag of laundry. Shanley’s latest is about three sisters and a guy who runs a laundry in Brooklyn, and the sometimes savage tricks life plays on them. Tragic and funny by turns, this story will remind you what is important in life... and the sorrow and joy of fully embracing adulthood.

Brooklyn Laundry

New York City Center

Winner of the 2022 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best New Off-Broadway Play, Joshua Harmon’s Prayer for the French Republic bursts onto Broadway after MTC’s highly acclaimed extended, sold-out Off-Broadway run. In 1944, a Jewish couple in Paris desperately awaits news of their missing family. More than 70 years later, the couple’s great-grandchildren find themselves facing the same question as their ancestors: "Are we safe?" This celebrated work by the author of Bad Jews and Significant Other is about history, home and the effects of an ancient hatred. The New York Times calls it "thought-provoking, heart-wrenching and wickedly funny." Directing is David Cromer, a Tony Award® winner for The Band's Visit.

Prayer for the French Republic

Samuel J. Friedman Theatre

Qui Nguyen, the wildly inventive playwright (and screenwriter for Marvel and Disney) known for his use of pop culture, pop music and puppetry, reunites with his frequent director, May Adrales, for this funny, sexy and brash new play. A young Vietnamese family attempts to put down roots in Arkansas, a place as different from home as it gets. A mom and dad balance big hopes and low-wage jobs, as old flings threaten to pull them apart. It all makes for a bumpy road to the American dream. From the world of Nguyen’s Vietgone, with its comic book and action movie influences, comes a play that melds a deeply personal story with the playwright’s trademark, killer humor. The New York Times hails the writer’s work as “culturally savvy comedy,” and this production shows you why.

Poor Yella Rednecks

This dazzling world premiere welcomes you into Jaja’s bustling hair braiding salon in Harlem where every day, a lively and eclectic group of West African immigrant hair braiders are creating masterpieces on the heads of neighborhood women. During one sweltering summer day, love will blossom, dreams will flourish and secrets will be revealed. The uncertainty of their circumstances simmers below the surface of their lives and when it boils over, it forces this tight-knit community to confront what it means to be an outsider on the edge of the place they call home. This extraordinary new play is by the award winning Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh (School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play) and will be directed by Obie winner Whitney White (Our Dear Dead Drug Lord).

Jaja's African Hair Braiding

A daughter’s road trip with her father becomes a theatrical journey across more than just state lines. This funny, wise, and heartbreaking debut from an exciting new writer is brought to vibrant life by director Daniel Aukin, whom MTC audiences will remember from Fool for Love and Fulfillment Center.

The Best We Could

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize, Martyna Majok's powerhouse play receives its Broadway premiere after a celebrated run at MTC's Stage I. Hailed by The New York Times as "gripping, immensely haunting and exquisitely attuned," this insightful, intriguing work is about the forces that bring people together, the complexity of caring and being cared for, and the ways we all need each other in this world. Kara Young and David Zayas join acclaimed original stars Gregg Mozgala and Katy Sullivan in this production, again directed by Obie Award winner Jo Bonney.

Cost of Living

Becoming Miss Ghana 1986 would mean fame, fortune, and prosperity. At least, that’s what Paulina—the queen bee of Aburi Girls Boarding School—believes. When the pageant recruiter comes to school, Paulina and her crew pull out all the stops. But to their surprise, a new transfer student from America kicks the competition into a higher, far more personal gear. Arriving on Broadway for the first time nearly a decade after its Off-Broadway premiere, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play reunites the powerhouse team behind Jaja’s African Hair Braiding—Tony Award-nominated playwright Jocelyn Bioh and Tony Award-nominated director Whitney White—for this bright, biting comedy.

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

Faith means believing in something. Especially when it feels impossible. As the years go by and the mystery of the sudden disappearance of Miriam and David’s teenage son remains unsolved, their blended family must figure out how to go on, relearning how to live through the ups and downs of ordinary days in their altered world.

The Unbelievers

Starring Tony Award® winner Danny Burstein, Tony®/Emmy Award nominee Jessica Hecht, and Tony Award® nominee Jeremy Shamos, this bold new production of Clifford Odets’ timeless masterpiece tells a story about aspiration, family and how to live with dignity in America. It’s the 1930s, and the Bronx is a furnace. New ideas clash with the old amidst the poverty and shattered promises of the Great Depression. And three generations of the Berger family, trapped inside their cramped tenement, struggle to hold different visions of an American dream and the Jewish experience. Directed by Tyne Rafaeli, this classic battle between hope and disillusionment returns to Broadway, speaking thrillingly to the crises of the present moment.

Manhattan Theatre Club

Sep 8 - Nov 1, 2026

School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play

Oct 13, 2026

The Unbelievers

Dec 15, 2026

Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing!

Mar 25 - May 11, 2025

Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends

Nov 25, 2024 - Feb 2, 2025

Eureka Day

Manhattan Theatre Club