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Breaking the Story

First Preview: May 16, 2024
Opening Date: Jun 4, 2024
Closing Date: Jun 23, 2024
Breaking the Story

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Playing @
Studio Seaview
305 West 43rd St., New York, NY 10036
As a foreign war correspondent, Marina (Maggie Siff) has put her life on the line to illuminate the darkest corners of humanity. Having just returned from a particularly bloody conflict, she flirts with staying home for good—alongside her cameraman turned lover (Louis Ozawa). With her closest friends and family gathered on the eve of her lifetime achievement award ceremony, she decides to cap this glorious moment with an elopement. But as Marina tries to take hold of her life, she’s forced to reckon with the hold war has on her. 

Breaking the Story is a darkly funny and fiery drama presented by Second Stage Theater about the cost of war and the audacity of those frontliners armed with only a press badge.
Off BroadwayPlay - Drama

Performance Schedule

May 15-June 2, 2024:
TUESDAY-FRIDAY @ 7 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM & 7 PM

Beginning June 4, 2024:
TUESDAY, THURSDAY & FRIDAY @ 7 PM
WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY @ 2 PM & 7 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM


Cast
  • Tala Ashe
  • Geneva Carr
  • Julie Halston
  • Louis Ozawa
  • Gabrielle Policano
  • Matthew Saldívar
  • Maggie Siff

Written By
  • Alexis Scheer

Director
  • Jo Bonney

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Full-price tickets:

$52.00 - $106.00

Accessibility

  • Elevator/Escalator

    An elevator in the box office lobby provides access to all levels of the theater.
  • Entrance

    Street level at 305 W 43rd Street

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