Blackbird

First Preview: Jan 26, 2016

Opening Date: Feb 06, 2016

Closing Date: Jun 11, 2016

Running Time: 01:30

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Belasco Theatre

111 W 44th St New York, NY 10036

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Tony Award® nominee Jeff Daniels and Academy Award® nominee Michelle Williams return to Broadway in David Harrower's Olivier Award-winning Blackbird, called "one of the most powerful dramas of the century" by The New York Times.

Blackbird is "a brilliant and tantalizing study in sexual obsession that leaves one both shaken and stirred" (The Guardian). Tony Award winner Joe Mantello directs

Blackbird tells the story of Una and Ray. Fifteen years earlier they had a relationship and haven’t set eyes on each other since. Now she’s found him again.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ 8 PM
TUESDAY & THURSDAY @ 7 PM
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY @ 2 PM

Broadway Play - Drama

Age Guidance: 16

Show Notes: No Intermission

Audience Advisory:

Adult themes & language. Performances begin promptly. There is no late seating.

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The showdown of the year is taking place at the Belasco Theatre, where David Harrower's knockout play Blackbird is receiving its Broadway premiere. In each corner, an estimable actor gives the performance of a lifetime: Emmy winner Jeff Daniels in one, three-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams in the other. When the lights come up after 90 thrilling and utterly shocking minutes, neither is left standing.The Olivier Award-winning Blackbird made its New York debut in 2007 in a production of Manhattan Theatre Club. This version reunites Daniels with his original director, Joe Mantello, but this is no mere remounting. While it's been nine years, this disquieting drama remains powerful as ever.

------TheaterMania

Daniels plays Ray, who is 55; Williams plays Una, who is 27. Fifteen years before the action of the play, they had a three-month sexual relationship. You do the math. But this horrifying information, divulged early on, is just the set-up, for this is not a tract or a brief that sticks to the conventional line of inquiry informing most discussions of pedophilia and sex abuse. The fact of the crime, for which Ray served a relatively short sentence of three years and seven months, is not, onstage, the end of the story. Without in any way glamorizing the situation, Blackbird so complicates the questions of consent and trauma and recovery — and even love — that it would be difficult to look at any of these subjects the same way again.

------Vulture

Shock ought to have a shelf life, the way horror movies lose their power after repeat viewings. But if The Shining still makes you jump, it’s digging deeper than your ordinary slasher flick. Likewise, I’m quite familiar with David Harrower’s hellishly compelling 2005 play Blackbird. I reviewed it Off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Club and later logged hours with the script, writing an essay for the Best Plays Yearbook series. Yet years later, there I was at the Belasco, craning forward, then recoiling, as Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams clawed at each other’s psyches and bodies, playing ex-lovers or, to be precise, a pedophile and his victim: She was 12 and he was 40. Blackbird is a comfortless 80-minute reckoning of arrested time and soiled innocence.

-------TimeOut NY

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Parking

The closest parking lot is Meyer Parking at 146 West 44th Street.

Directions Bus

Five buses stop near the Belasco Theatre. Please take the M5, M7, M20, M42, or M104

Restroom

Wheelchair accessible restroom is available. Additional restrooms are also located down one flight of stairs, and on the mezzanine and balcony levels.

Directions Subway

A, C, E, N, Q, R, 1, 2, 3 To 42nd Street, walk North to 44th Street, east to theatre. Alternatively, take the B, D, or F - To 42nd Street at 6th Ave then walk North to 44th Street, west to theatre.

Seating

Seats 1018. Orchestra has no steps. Mezzanine: Located on 2nd level, up 1 flight of stairs. Once on the Mezzanine level, there are approximately 2 steps up/down per row. Entrance to Mezzanine is behind row H. Balcony: No elevator, stairs only. Once on the Balcony level, there are approximately 2 steps up/down per row. The entrance to the Balcony is behind row F.

Elevator\Escalator

There are no elevators or escalators at this theatre.

Entrance

There are two steps into the theatre from the main entrance. An alternate entrance with an accessible path of travel is located to the left of the main door.