Public Theater

Andrew Durand plays the title character, who is born an old man and ages into a child, in Jethro Compton and Darren Clark's musical adaptation of F. Scott's Fitzgerald's whimsical 1922 short story. This British version moves the setting from 19th-century America to 20th-century Cornwall, and its acclaimed 2024 West End production won the Olivier Award for Best Musical last year. Co-author Compton also serves as the show's director and scenic designer; the rest of the London creative team is also on board for its U.S. premiere at the Public Theater, which co-stars Kelsee Kimmel as the love of Button's backward life. 

Miriam Silverman, who won a 2023 Tony for stealing The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, stars as a mad botanist bent on breaking the laws of nature—and of social convention—in a rare revival of Susan Glaspell's genre-blending 1921 play, an early example of expressionism in American drama that finds three of the men in the scientist's life converging on her greenhouse during a blizzard. Jessie Austrian directs a cast that includes her fellow Fiasco Theater mainstays Noah Brody, Paul L. Coffey, Devin E. Haqq, Paco Tolson and Emily Young as well as newcomer Amara Leonard.