Following its critically acclaimed run at London's Ambassador's Theatre, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is now transferring to the Big Apple, finding a new home at The Public's Newman Theater! Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story, and set to a winning folk-infused score that sees the multi-talented ensemble take up instruments, this wonderful and heartwarming production tells the story of Benjamin Button, who experiences the unique affliction of ageing backwards.

Stephen Brown-Fried adapts this gripping adaptation of Shakespeare's Lancaster vs York plays, streamlining the three works into two concise and thrilling parts. A dramatic take on The Wars of the Roses, a period of British history that played out like a real life Game of Thrones, the plays take in the turmoil of a Battle for the crown of England that would shape not just Britain, but Europe at large, for centuries. Directed by Brown-Fried, part one, Foreign Wars, begins ominously at the funeral of Henry V, whose son, still a baby, is now on the throne, heralding the dawn of decades of dark chaos. Part two, Civil Strife, carries on the tale three decades later, at the start of the War of the Roses.