The Antiquities

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Closing: February 23, 2025

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Playwrights Horizons

416 West 42nd St.(between 9th & 10th Aves) New York, NY 10036

Run Type Limited Run

Market Off-Broadway

Previews January 11, 2025

At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? What did they wear, what did they eat, how did they die out? By casting us into the far future, Jordan Harrison’s new play gives us an uncanny view of the present moment, as we straddle the analog world that was and the post-human world to come.

The Antiquities - 2024 - Off-Broadway Cast

Andrew Garman

Ryan Spahn

Marchánt Davis

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The Antiquities Review. Extinct humans on display

From: New York Theater By: Jonathan Mandell Date: 2025-02-05

6 / 10

There are then three increasingly dystopian scenes in the future, before the one displaying the artifacts.After that, “The Antiquities” backtracks, going back to the previous stories and finishing them up. This is surely well-meaning, an effort to give us fuller stories rather than just a theme, and some of the individual stories do wrap up in a satisfying way. But it all started to feel too much. “The Antiquities,” which imagines a future in which human beings are no longer welcome by the creatures they created, started to outwear its own.

‘The Antiquities’ Review: Relics of Late Human Life in 12 Exhibits

From: New York Times By: Jesse Green Date: 2025-02-05

6 / 10

Some of these scenes are beautifully drawn, with the wit, pith and undercurrent of sadness characteristic of Harrison’s best work. (The opportunities and perils of A.I. as human companions were the subject of his play “Marjorie Prime,” a Pulitzer finalist in 2015.) The boy who gets the prosthetic finger is left at the workhouse because his family can no longer afford him. (Father to son: “Well. Goodbye, Tom. I don’t expect I’ll see you again.”) The reason the 1987 boy is grieving is that his bachelor uncle was buried that day. We don’t need to be told what he died of. But other scenes, like one set in 2076, when the last humans live as outlaws in a dystopia of semi-robot overlords, feel more like place fillers, necessary as steps in Harrison’s timeline but not compelling in themselves.

The Antiquities - 2024 Off-Broadway Awards and Nominations

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The Antiquities awards and nominations
Year	Ceremony	Category	Nominee
2025	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Costume Design of a Pla	Brenda Abbandandolo
2025	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Direction of a Play	David Cromer
2025	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Direction of a Play	Caitlin Sullivan
2025	Drama Desk Awards	Outstanding Lighting Design of a Pl	Tyler Micoleau
2025	Outer Critics Circle Awards	Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play	The Antiquities

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