What goes into crafting the words that make up our favorite Broadway shows? How do Broadway playwrights and book writers make our favorite characters shine and our favorite scenes come alive…
Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Punch @ Manhattan Theatre Club, MURDOCH: The Final Interview @ Theater555, Caroline @ MCC Theater, Oklahoma! @ Northern Kentu…
The world of theatre has changed once again"one word titles are fashionable, and nuance is out. This production of Punch, a new play by James Graham, is based on the book Right From Wrong by…
James Graham has two reasons to celebrate this week. His new play, Punch, not only opened on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, but also opened in London just days before. "It's g…
October is chock-a-block, as the Brits like to say, with theatrical activity. Tracy Letts' Mary Page Marlowe reaches the Old Vic Theatre with Susan Sarandon heading the cast, and Rachel Zegl…
James Graham has two reasons to celebrate this week. His new play, Punch, not only opened on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, but also opened in London just days before. "It's gre…
Will Harrison and two-time Tony winner Victoria Clark lead the American premiere of James Graham's Punch, directed by Adam Penford, which opened on Broadway on September 29 at Manhattan Thea…
Join the cast of James Graham's PUNCH on the opening night red carpet! Get tickets to PUNCH: https://www.broadway.com/shows/punch/
Broadway " Manhattan Theater Club in association with Nottingham Playhouse at Samuel J. Friedman Theater: 261 West 47 Street. Sept. 29-Nov. 2, 2025. Drama. Author: James Graham. Director: Ad…
Broadway's hard-hitting play Punch opened at the Samuel J.Friedman Theatre on September 29. Daisy Jones & the Six actor Will Harrison leads the production in his Broadway debut, along…
Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not in education, employment or training), some 13 per cent of this age group. Many working-cla…
Stars of stage and screen came out to welcome the James Graham play to Manhattan Theatre Club.
By David Sheward September 30, 2025: It's going to be very difficult to resist the obvious praise for Punch, James Graham's hard-hitting British import presented by Manhattan Theater Club …
By Isa Goldberg September 30, 2025: Justice is not about revenge. Therein lies the ontological premise of Punch, an action-packed docudrama set in The Meadows, a social rented housing comp…
Now running at Manhattan Theatre Club is the American premiere of Punch, by James Graham, which just opened last night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Check out what the critics had to sa…
Will Harrison leads the cast, with Adam Penford at the helm, at Manhattan Theatre Club.
By Alix Cohen Jacob (Will Harrison) is growing up in what Americans would call the projects- a British estate of low income housing. His attentive, single mother (an excellent Lucy Taylor) s…
James Graham's Punch, opened tonight at Manhattan Theatre Club's Broadway home, the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Punch is also currently running on London's West End, has arrived as part of a…
Will Harrison leads the cast, with Adam Penford at the helm.
As Jacob tears through Nottingham in a whirlwind of drugs, girls, and bar fights, he makes a fatal mistake that lands him in prison. But as he struggles to accept the consequences of his act…
It leads to a luminous climax, arguably the most beautifully written single scene of the year. Jacob, Joan, David, and moderator Nicola (Camila Canó-Flaviá) sit in a simple half-circle…
It's quite a story, though not necessarily the kind that makes for the most astonishing theater. That's not to denigrate Punch, which is solidly built and well-meaning without sanctimony. Gr…
But while story itself is inspiring, some central emotional focus seems missing from the way it unfolds in Punch, which winds up feeling less like a full-blown play and more like a digressiv…
James Graham's Broadway play tells the true story of how restorative justice brought together a young man who threw a fatal punch and the parents of the victim.