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I can’t believe I made it this long without having seen [*Wicked*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/1-wicked-musical-tickets) either. I’m a 30-year-old, queer New Yorker whose friends are mostly theatre fans, and I’ve been subjected to more dance remixes of “Popular” than I care to admit.

Everything I knew about the show came through friends and cultural osmosis. I knew some songs and the general...

Inside the experience of seeing 'Wicked' on Broadway for the first time

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Just before the film adaptation releases nationwide, one New York Theatre Guide writer reports on what it's like to watch the hit musical live on Broadway.

Theatre has the power to unite people from all countries and backgrounds — millions of global tourists come to Broadway shows in New York City every year. Nearly all Broadway shows are performed in English, but even if you don't know the language, that won't stop you from enjoying the colorful sets and costumes, energetic [dance moves](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/see-these-broadway-musicals-featuring-show-stopping-dances), and thrilling music.

Those who speak English...

Guide to Broadway shows for non-English speakers

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Get answers to all your questions about translation resources available at Broadway shows, and discover recommendations for shows that defy language barriers.

Anchors aweigh! [Jinkx Monsoon](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/jinkx-monsoon) has joined the cast of [*Pirates! The Penzance Musical*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/38596-the-pirates-of-penzance) on Broadway, running at the [Todd Haimes Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/todd-haimes-theatre) from April 4 to June 22, 2025. Opening night is April 24.

Monsoon is best known for winning two seasons of *RuPaul's Drag Race*, earning the nickname "The...

Jinkx Monsoon joins 'Pirates! The Penzance Musical' Broadway cast

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The *RuPaul's Drag Race* star will join Ramin Karimloo and David Hyde Pierce in a  jazz and blues-infused adaptation of the classic Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

Adults will listen when the cast of [*Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/40572-stephen-sondheims-old-friends-on-broadway), a heartfelt revue celebrating the late musical theatre composer of the title, perform a far-reaching selection of his songs from more than a dozen of his shows.

Led by Tony Award winners [Bernadette Peters](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/bernadette-peters), famous for originating roles in Sondheim's *Into the Woods*...

All the songs in 'Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends' on Broadway

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More than 40 showtunes by the late, award-winning composer Stephen Sondheim appear in this revue starring Tony Award winners Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga.

Additional casting has been announced for [*Glengarry Glen Ross*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41986-glengarry-glen-ross-on-broadway) on Broadway, opening in spring 2025 at a theatre and dates to be announced.

New additions to the *Glengarry Glen Ross* Broadway cast are Grammy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Michael McKean (*Better Call Saul, This Is Spinal Tap, All The Way*) as George Aaronow, Donald Webber Jr. (*Our Town*, *Purlie Victorious*) as John Williamson, Howard W....

'Glengarry Glen Ross' sets additional Broadway casting

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Find out the actors joining Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Bill Burr in the latest revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play this spring.

Theatre tickets make an ideal gift, especially right now. You don't have to wait in long lines to get them, and you can always find a ticket for a different day or show if one is sold out, unlike a popular toy or the newest tech gadget. Plus, most theatres provide e-tickets now or you can pick them up at the box office. Either way, you don't have to worry about the tickets getting lost in the mail or not arriving in time for Christmas. And you don't have to spend time and money on wrapping paper...

Theatre Gift Guide: Gift these Broadway and Off-Broadway shows this holiday season

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Based on the 1992 film, the musical version of [*Death Becomes Her*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/34895-death-becomes-her-on-broadway) first came alive in Chicago this past spring. The same stars who graced the stage in the Windy City – [Megan Hilty](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/megan-hilty), [Jennifer Simard](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/jennifer-simard), [Michelle...

What makes 'Death Becomes Her' sing on Broadway

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The cult classic Meryl Streep/Goldie Hawn film from 1992 has life-and-death stakes, lending itself well to adaptation as an over-the-top, revitalized musical.

Call it a funny valentine! The new play [*All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/42351-all-in-comedy-about-love-by-simon-rich-on-broadway), running from December 11 to February 16 at the [Hudson Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/hudson-theatre), promises to be that kind of theatrical sampler. It’s also the sort whose rotating cast is stacked with stars who are Tony Award, Emmy Award, and Pulitzer Prize winners. Who wouldn't love...

Meet the cast of 'All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich' on Broadway

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Learn more about the new play’s stars including John Mulaney, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jimmy Fallon, Aidy Bryant, Richard Kind, and more.

Thornton Wilder's classic play [*Our Town*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/24260-our-town-tickets) is back on Broadway, introducing a new generation of audiences to its simple but timeless tale of small-town New Englanders experiencing the cycle of life and death. That fictional town is Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, a place different from New York City in nearly every way.

Namely, New York has lots more options for food, drink, and recreation. And since the celebrity cast of *Our...

The 'Our Town' Broadway cast's guide to NYC

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Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and more shared their favorite places in town to eat, drink, relax, find entertainment, and explore.

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has announced its lineup of 2024 Broadway performances, with three shows taking part alongside multiple other special performances.

The Broadway shows performing in the NBC broadcast of the 2024 Macy's parade are [*Death Becomes Her*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/34895-death-becomes-her-on-broadway), [*Hell’s Kitchen*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/37579-hells-kitchen-broadway), and [*The...

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade sets 2024 Broadway performances

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The casts of three Broadway shows are set to perform musical numbers during the live broadcast, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. on November 28 this year.

Tony Award winner and Emmy nominee Jason Alexander will make his Broadway directorial debut this summer with [*The Cottage*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/27834-the-cottage-tickets), a new play by Sandy Rustin. Performances will run from July 7 to October 29 at the [Hayes Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/hayes-theater), with opening night on July 24.

Alexander has performed in six Broadway shows in the past, winning a Tony for *Jerome Robbins' Broadway*. He is also known for screen roles in *Seinfeld*, *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel*, *Pretty Woman*, and many more, and has also directed for TV.

In *The Cottage*, he directs a cast led by Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, and Lilli Cooper. McCormack is an Emmy Award winner for playing Will Truman in *Will & Grace*, and Cooper is a Tony nominee for playing Julie in *Tootsie* and was most recently seen in *POTUS* on Broadway in 2022. Bundy makes her first return to Broadway since her Tony-nominated performance as Elle Woods in 2007's *Legally Blonde* musical.

Additional casting has yet to be announced.

*The Cottage* is a farce inspired by the works of Noel Coward and takes place in 1923 England. A woman decides to reveal her extramarital affair to both her husband and her lover's wife, setting off a chain of secrets that get revealed with funny, and potentially murderous, results.

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Jason Alexander makes his Broadway directorial debut with *The Cottage*, a new play starring Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, and Lilli Cooper. Check back for information on *The Cottage* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.

*The Cottage* is a play about a married woman having an extramarital affair with a married man. She decides to come clean to her husband and her lover's wife at the same time. More revelations ensue from there, bringing about plenty of humor — along with potentially deadly twists.

This farce, by Broadway-debut playwright Sandy Rustin (also known for writing the 2022 stage adaptation of *Clue*), is inspired by the works of celebrated writer Noël Coward. Coward's comedies often take place among the high society of early 20th-century England he experienced firsthand. Likewise, Rustin's comedy is set in the English countryside in 1923.

Leading the cast of *The Cottage* in New York is a trio of veteran stage and screen talent. Returning to Broadway for the first time since 2012 is Eric McCormack, who's best known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Will Truman on *Will & Grace*. Also making a grand return to Broadway is Tony nominee Laura Bell Bundy, who last starred as Elle Woods in *Legally Blonde: The Musical* from 2007-2008.

Rounding out the trio is Lilli Cooper, who performed in a different Broadway farce, Selina Fillinger's *POTUS*, last summer. She's also a Tony nominee for the *Tootsie* musical and has performed in *Spring Awakening*, *Wicked*, and *SpongeBob SquarePants*.

## Who is Jason Alexander?

Jason Alexander is an actor and director best known for starring as George Costanza on *Seinfeld*. In his 40-plus-year entertainment career, Alexander has also become known for playing Phillip Stuckey in *Pretty Woman*, Hugo in *The Hunchback of Notre Dame*, and Asher Friedman on *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel*. He is also an Emmy and Tony Award winner, having appeared in numerous other screen projects and six Broadway shows.

Alexander has also directed films and episodes of TV shows including *Criminal Minds* and *Young Sheldon*. He makes his Broadway directorial debut with *The Cottage*.

Check back for information on tickets to *The Cottage* on Broadway.

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Get tickets to The Cottage on Broadway from the official New York Theatre Guide. Prepare to laugh at this new farce directed by Seinfeld's Jason Alexander.

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Jason Alexander directs this new farce starring Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, and Lilli Cooper. A woman reveals her affair to her husband and her lover's wife, yielding potentially deadly results. Learn more about tickets to The Cottage, on Broadway for a limited time this summer.

*Jason Alexander* has directed for the screen and stage before, but he makes his Broadway directorial debut with *The Cottage*. He's performed in six Broadway shows, winning a Tony for *Jerome Robbins' Broadway* in 1989, but he's best known as Jerry's best friend George Costanza on the classic sitcom *Seinfeld*.

In *The Cottage*, he directs a cast of fellow comedy aces with Emmy and Tony honors to their name. You likely know Eric McCormack best as Will Truman on *Will & Grace*, for which he won an Emmy and earned several award nominations, and Alex Moffat for his stellar impression of President Joe Biden and more on *SNL*. Laura Bell Bundy and Lilli Cooper are both Tony nominees: Bundy was nominated for playing Elle Woods in *Legally Blonde* and Cooper for Julie Nichols in *Tootsie*. 
## What to Watch For

- Jason Alexander made his Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's *Merrily We Roll Along* in 1981. That musical will have its first Broadway revival in fall 2023, just as *The Cottage* wraps up.
- *The Cottage* is inspired by the plays of Noël Coward, who wrote comedies of manners set in early 20th-century England.
- Two actors in *The Cottage* return to Broadway after long hiatuses. McCormack last appeared in *The Best Man* in 2012, and Bundy in *Legally Blonde* in 2007.
- Rustin is no stranger to period comedies. She adapted Jonathan Lynn’s screenplay for *Clue*, the 1950s-set comedy whodunnit, into a 2022 play. American Theatre magazine recognized Rustin’s adaptation of *Clue* as one of the most produced shows of the 2022-23 season.
- Rustin also wrote the book for a new musical adaptation of the hit Julia Roberts film *Mystic Pizza*.

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A tangle of extramarital affairs unravels — along with plenty of other secrets — under one roof at this new, old-fashioned farce. See a starry cast including Eric McCormack, Alex Moffat, and Laura Bell Bundy, directed by Jason Alexander.

[*The Cottage*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/27834-the-cottage-tickets) is an airy — and gassy — comedy about cheating. Sandy Rustin wrote the play with a single-minded mission — to keep you in stitches — and it largely hits the mark. 

Now on Broadway a decade after it premiered in Queens, the play’s laughs and momentum do dip on occasion. Nonetheless, the cast consistently manages to make infidelity entertaining. Even when someone pulls a gun.

It’s 1923 in an English country house. Don’t let the posh locale fool you, nor that Noël Coward has been cited as an inspiration for this rom-com: Nobody’s here to mind their upper-crust manners. The onstage curtain at the [Hayes Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/hayes-theater) teases this. At first glance, you see a garden of colorful wildflowers outside the house. Soon, your eye catches squirrels boinking here and deer doing it there. It mirrors what goes on inside.

Since 1917, Sylvia ([Laura Bell Bundy](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/interviews/laura-bell-bundy-returns-to-broadway-after-15-years-in-the-cottage)) and Beau (*Will & Grace*'s Eric McCormack), who are married to other people, have carried on a *Same Time, Next Year*-style annual one-night tryst at his widowed mother’s country home decorated with animal heads. The sly implications of that decor eventually become clear. It’s always been a place about notching trophies.

It’s the morning after “passionate, wildly erotic sex.” Beau’s showering. Sylvia wears lingerie and is lit by afterglow. Per usual, he calls her Tulip, an endearment that makes her weak in the knees. But something’s different. Sylvia’s got a seven-year itch. She wants Beau to herself full-time. She has sent a telegram to her husband, Clarke (Alex Moffat, of *Saturday Night Live*), and Beau’s wife, Marjorie (Lilli Cooper), to tell them what’s going on.

In short order, they come to the love shack. The place gets even more crowded with the arrival of Deirdre (Dana Steingold) and her ex-husband Richard (Nehal Joshi). To reveal more about their interconnections and plot twists would be a killjoy. Suffice it to say there's a daisy chain of dalliances – and one link is way too close for comfort. 

Of course, that’s the point. For laughs' sake, the situation is over-the-top. Rustin raids the comedy playbook for the pure sake of humor. She includes an extended fart joke, bad puns, an ongoing gag about cigarettes and booze popping up in unexpected places, a potential murder plot (hence the gun), and a truly dopey dime-store disguise. 

“You stuck a mustache on a mustache?” asks a gobsmacked Sylvia. It’s absurd and funny, and it gets to the core of this layer cake of a comedy. Can’t have too much of a good thing. 

Jason Alexander, a *Seinfeld* alum who won a Tony for *Jerome Robbins’ Broadway*, impresses in his Broadway directing debut. He’s [assembled an ace ensemble](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/stars-of-will-and-grace-snl-legally-blonde-move-into-the-cottage-on-broadway), keeps the pace reasonably revved, and wrapped it up in a good-looking production. One quibble – he overplays his hand with grandly silly music and light cues as characters make entrances.

McCormack hams it up expertly as the haughty Beau. Cooper slow-burns until Marjorie gets a moment to let it all rip. Broadway newcomer Moffat steps up as the klutzy charmer. Best of the bunch is Bundy, who makes every comedic line and pose gleefully giggle-inducing. 

In the end, *The Cottage* is about Sylvia opening her eyes to her relationships with men. But the moment that sticks out is the hilarious sight of Sylvia plugging her nose with an old-timey phone receiver. Moments like that make *The Cottage* a Broadway funhouse.

[*The Cottage* is at the Hayes Theater until October 29. Get tickets to *The Cottage* at New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/27834-the-cottage-tickets)

*Photo credit: Nehal Joshi, Alex Moffat, Laura Bell Bundy, Eric McCormack, and Dana Steingold in The Cottage. (Photo by Joan Marcus)*

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Read our four-star review of *The Cottage*, written by Sandy Rustin and directed by Jason Alexander, on Broadway at the Hayes Theater through October 29.

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The Hayes Theater, established in 1912 and located in the heart of New York City, is a notable venue for Broadway productions. Known formerly as the Little Theatre, the Helen Hayes Theatre was renamed in 1983 in honor of the acclaimed actress. Since its renovation in 2017, the Hayes has become one of the most technologically advanced, intimate Broadway houses. Its seating capacity of 597 hasn't affected the quality and charm of performances held there. Known for presenting some of the most innovative works of contemporary playwrights, it continues to attract theatre buffs from around the world. 

 ## How to Get There 

The Hayes Theater is situated at 240 West 44th Street, between 7th and 8th avenue. For those taking the subway, the Times Square-42nd Street station served by N, Q, R, S, W, 1, 2, 3, and 7 trains is the closest stop. If you prefer a taxi or a ride-sharing service, simply set your destination to the theater's address. There are also numerous parking facilities within a few blocks where you can leave your car if you're driving.

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The Hayes Theater officially opened as The Little Theatre on March 12, 1912. The building was designed by Harry Creighton Ingalls and built by Winthrop Ames, opening with John Galsworthy's play *The Pigeon*.

During the 1920s, the theatre was redesigned by Herbert J. Krapp to increase the capacity from 300 to 590. The New York Times purchased the building in 1931, converting it to a conference hall under the name of New York Times Hall.

In 1979, Martin Markinson and Donald Tick bought the theatre and renamed it in 1983 to the Helen Hayes Theatre to honor the actress. A previous theatre bearing her name was demolished in 1982 to make way for the Marriott Marquis Hotel.

On April 18, 2015, it was officially announced that Second Stage Theater had purchased the property. It was later revealed that the venue would be renamed the Hayes Theater, and it opened in spring 2018. The Hayes Theater is the smallest Broadway theatre, now with 597 seats.

## How to get to the Hayes Theater on Broadway

The Hayes Theater, located on 44th Street between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, is closest to the 42nd Street - Port Authority subway stop on the A, C, and E lines. Additionally, the nearest bus stops are 8th Ave/W 46th St. on the M20 and M104 lines; 7th Ave/W. 44th St. on the M104 line; and 8th Ave/W 43rd St. on the M20, M104, and M34A-SBS lines.

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The Hayes Theater, opened in 1912 and initially named The Little Theatre, has passed ownership several times, upgraded, and renamed. It's the smallest Broadway theatre.

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Hayes Theater, an intimate Broadway venue in NYC, presents innovative contemporary plays. It's accessible via subway, taxi, and has nearby parking facilities.

This new limited-engagement farce by Sandy Rustin, premiering at the Hayes Theater this summer, will star Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, and Lilli Cooper.

Jason Alexander to direct 'The Cottage' on Broadway this summer

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