Tony Winning Play THE HUMANS to Play Final Performance at the Schoenfeld This January

The New York Times reports that The Humans, which took home the 2016 Tony Award for Best New Play, will play its final performance at the Schoenfeld Theater on January 15th. As BWW reported earlier today, the new musical COME FROM AWAY will begin performances at the Shoenfeld Theater, current home of The Humans, on February 18th.

The Humans will continue at the Schoenfeld through January 15. This is a play that has had wildly successful runs at three different New York theatres over the past year. We'll see what happens next.

THE HUMANS is currently the only non-musical play running on Broadway. That distinction will change tonight when THE CHERRY ORCHARD begins previews.

The Broadway production of Stephen Karam's play began performances at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre (240 West 44th Street) on Saturday, January 23, 2016, and opened officially on Thursday, February 18. Directed by Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, the play featured the entire ensemble cast of the Off-Broadway production at Roundabout Theatre Company and includes Cassie Beck (Aimee), Reed Birney (Erik), Jayne Houdyshell (Deirdre)Lauren Klein (Fiona "Momo" Blake), Arian Moayed (Richard) and Sarah Steele (Brigid).

About The Humans: The angst, anguish and amity of the American middle class are first coaxed - then shoved - into the light in this uproarious, hopeful, and heart-breaking play takes place over the course of a family dinner on Thanksgiving, the plays tells . Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake (Birney) has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate and give thanks at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside the ramshackle pre-war duplex, and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the Blake clan's deepest fears and greatest follies are laid bare. Our modern age of anxiety is keenly observed, with humor and compassion, in this new American classic.

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