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The Play That Goes Wrong

First Preview: Apr 24, 2018
Opening Date: Apr 24, 2018
Closing Date: Jan 6, 2019
Running Time: 02:00
The Play That Goes Wrong

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Playing @
New World Stages
340 West 50th Street, New York City, NY 10019
WRONG  MOVES RIGHT  UP THE STREET! 

The time is right to see The Play That Goes Wrong, Broadway’s funniest and longest-running play!  This Olivier Award-winning comedy is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes.

Welcome to opening night of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a Broadway show – a ramshackle set, a leading lady with a concussion, and a corpse that can’t play dead. It’s a classic mystery… and it’s a mystery how it ever got to Broadway! 
BroadwayPlay - Comedy
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Age Guidance: 10

Performance Schedule

SUNDAY, MONDAY, WEDNESDAY &  THURSDAY @ 7 PM
FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM


Written By
  • Henry Lewis
  • Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields

Director
  • Mark Bell

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Reviews

  • And it is that relentless constancy that sets this endeavor apart from other entries in the twin, mostly clapped-out genres that it so guilelessly taps — the backstage comedy and the mystery farce with the aristocratic characters. Why? Because “The Play That Goes Wrong,” which was written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields and has arrived on Broadway after West End success, goes wrong so many times, in such mellifluous ways, and with such far-gone commitment to physical comedy. The relationship between comedy and pain is much discussed. But while most people will leave “The Play That Goes Wrong” thinking they’ve just spent two hours in a world utterly removed from the cares of the American moment, which would be true, the deeper truth in play here is that they will have watched a show that really is about the theater’s long-standing relationship with blind terror

    ---Chicago Tribune
  • “OH MY GOD!!! WHAT HAPPENED??? NO, I'M SERIOUS...  LEARN YOUR LINES. THIS SHOW IS TERRIBLE!”

    ---Will Ferrell
  • The show must go on — but in the Broadway transfer of West End hit “The Play That Goes Wrong,” forgotten lines, lost props, technical gaffes and rebellious scenery all seem to reply, “Oh no it doesn’t.” This broad, silly and deliciously demented show, about a fictitious amateur theatrical group with great resilience and greater incompetency, is by the Brit trio of Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields in a style that evokes “Fawlty Towers” with nods to Buster Keaton, Carol Burnett and Monty Python. Under the go-for-broke direction of Mark Bell, its high-energy cast is comic gold and manages to sustain, with a never-ending series of diversionary tactics, its one-joke concept.

  • And it is that relentless constancy that sets this endeavor apart from other entries in the twin, mostly clapped-out genres that it so guilelessly taps — the backstage comedy and the mystery farce with the aristocratic characters. Why? Because “The Play That Goes Wrong,” which was written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields and has arrived on Broadway after West End success, goes wrong so many times, in such mellifluous ways, and with such far-gone commitment to physical comedy. The relationship between comedy and pain is much discussed. But while most people will leave “The Play That Goes Wrong” thinking they’ve just spent two hours in a world utterly removed from the cares of the American moment, which would be true, the deeper truth in play here is that they will have watched a show that really is about the theater’s long-standing relationship with blind terror

    ---Chicago Tribune

Accessibility

  • Box Office

    Street to Lobby (Box Office): no steps, ground floor. Box Office windows are wheelchair accessible.
  • Restroom

    All restrooms are wheelchair accessible via the elevator. Restrooms are on the Orchestra and Mezzanine levels.
  • Elevator/Escalator

    There is an elevator and an escalator providing access from the Box Office lobby to the orchestra and mezzanine levels of the theatre.
  • Entrance

    There are no steps to the box office.
  • Visual Assistance

    Available upon request
  • Water Fountain

    Water fountains are next to the Orchestra restrooms on the 50th Street side.
  • Assisted Listening System

    Infrared assisted listening devices and neck induction loop systems (requires t-coil) are available to borrow at the Shubert Audience Services kiosk
  • Wheelchair Info

    Wheelchair seating is available
  • Passenger Loading Zone

    Front of Entrance

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