Hit West End Benjamin Button Musical to Make New York Debut This Fall

The hit West End musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button will make its New York debut this fall at the Public Theater, running October 8-November 15.

Written by Jethro Compton and Darren Clark, this Olivier Award-winning musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald story is directed by Compton, with choreography by Chi-San Howard. Set in a Cornish fishing village, it tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who ages in reverse. Fitzgerald’s short story has been adapted for the stage for 15 actor-musicians by Compton and Clark, with the piece receiving three glowing reviews from WhatsOnStage – amounting to a maximum of 15 stars. Playing at the Ambassadors Theatre from 2024 to 2025, the show won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, alongside two other prizes.

Leading off the Public season is Jacob Ming-Trent’s How Shakespeare Saved My Life (September 15-October 18), directed by Tony Taccone; Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s Songs from Bark of Millions at the Delacorte Theater (September 18-20); and Ryan J. Haddad’s Good Time Charlie, directed by Danny Sharron (September 24-October 18).

Also this fall: Richard Nelson’s latest Apple Family play, We’ll See: Conversations Among the Apple Family on the Night of the Midterm Elections (October 25-November 22), starring Sally Murphy (Jane), Maryann Plunkett (Barbara), Laila Robins (Marian), and Jay O. Sanders (Richard). Plus, Jessie Austrian will direct the Fiasco Theater production of Susan Glaspell’s The Verge, starring Miriam Silverman (October 27-November 22).

In winter 2027, the Public will present James Ijames’s new play Welcome Table and the Bedlam production of Emily Breeze’s Are the Bennet Girls OK?

Full casting and further information about each production will be announced at a later date.