FROM DECEMBER 2023
Broadway Transfer
After a highly acclaimed world premiere back in March 2022, Manhattan Theatre Club brings Joshua Harmon's "thought-provoking, heartbreaking and wickedly funny" (The New York Times) new play to the main stem this December, with direction from David Cromer. Following one French Jewish family over five generations, Prayer For The French Revolution is a vital portrait of how hatred can echo through the centuries, told with Harmon's biting wit and observation.
The author of Bad Jews and Significant Others, Harmon's new work is a necessary meditation on the ancient prejudice that led to the Holocaust. As a Parisian couple wait for news of their loved ones in 1944, the effect is still writ large some 70 years later in the lives of their great-grandchildren. At once a sweeping historical drama and dark comedy, the power of Harmon's tale and live theatre are not to be missed.