Marjorie Prime Revival
Marjorie Prime - 2025 Broadway History , Info & More
Helen Hayes Theatre
New York City
It's the age of artificial intelligence, and 86-year-old Marjorie - a jumble of disparate, fading memories - has a handsome new companion who's programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember, and what would we forget, if given the chance? In this richly spare, wondrous new play, Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits - if any - of what technology can replace.
Marjorie Prime - 2025 - Broadway Cast
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June Squibb Finds Post-AI Humanity in MARJORIE PRIME — Review
10 / 10
Harrison’s drama is equally poignant, not only in its thematic conceit and narrative scope but in its beautiful turns of phrase: “I don’t have to get better. Just keep me from getting worse,” Marjorie begs of her Prime. The production is equally delicate, with Lee Jellinek’s Palm Springs-style home set pulling off a simple, bravura gesture in the play’s final moments, aided by Ben Stanton’s lighting and Daniel Kluger’s sound design. The clothes which Márion Talán de la Rosa has designed for Squibb are enviably cozy.
Return of the Replicants: Marjorie Prime
7 / 10
In our present reality, with the floodwaters of AI slop licking at the rolled cuffs of our pants, it’s a pretty sure bet that Second Stage’s elegant revival of Harrison’s play will be applauded for its (then) prescience and (now) timeliness. Yet watching Marjorie Prime — staged on Lee Jellinek’s set of crisp angles, with its green hues engineered for tranquility, by Anne Kauffman, who directs with spare, delicate rigor, as if she’s conducting Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel — I kept waiting to feel … well, more. More rapt, more heartbroken, more rattled by the harrowing questions presented by the long, slow, terribly seductive suicide humanity seems bent on carrying out via technology. Harrison is a formidable craftsman and Marjorie Prime is built very well, but in a way it resembles one of its own artificial humans: It’s an extremely palatable version of the thing. It has studied how to be a play, and it’s a good one — if only the feeling of study weren’t quite so palpable in that goodness. If only it didn’t place so much value on the neatness of its own construction.
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Marjorie Prime History
Other Productions of Marjorie Prime
| 2015 | Off-Broadway |
Playwrights Horizons Original Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
| 2023 | West End |
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| 2025 | Broadway |
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Marjorie Prime - 2025 Broadway Awards and Nominations
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Performer in a Broadway Play | Danny Burstein |
| 2026 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | Marjorie Prime |
| 2026 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Danny Burstein |
| 2026 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | June Squibb |
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