Last week’s Tony Award nominations worked some magic at the box office of the awards contenders, with nearly all of the productions in the major categories reporting box office bumps in the days after Tuesday…

The nonprofit aims to exonerate and free the wrongfully convicted, such was Nick Yarris, the subject of “The Fear of 13.”

Dare to Be Stupid: The Weird Al Musical, a new musical featuring the songs of Weird Al Yankovic, is being developed for the Broadway stage, with Moulin Rouge! director Alex Timbers and writers Scott Brown and A…

The play stars two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody opposite recent Golden Globe nominee Tessa Thompson.

The Fear of 13 will host a special one-night benefit performance of The Fear of 13 on May 14, 2026 in support of the Innocence Project. A portion of all proceeds ($10/ticket) will be donated to the Innocence Pr…

The Broadway Theatre Review: A fact-based drama of isolation and narrative control, driven by performance and shaped by uneven execution By Ross Time does not move the same way for everyone, and sitting in the …

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Save the Last Dance Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Rachel Zegler have been tapped to star in Last Dance, a father-daughter story directed by B…

Ephraim Sykes of THE FEAR OF 13, Say More 💬 The AIN’T TOO PROUD Tony Award-nominated actor chats about the passionate singing he gets to do in the play, the best place to watch the new Lindsey Ferrentino …

Lindsey Ferrentino's The Fear of 13 begins performances on Broadway March 19. Playing the James Earl Jones Theatre, the production is set to open April 15. Directed by David Cromer, the production stars two-ti…

The 2026 honorees of the Theatre World Awards, recognizing outstanding debut performances in Broadway or off-Broadway productions, were announced on May 7. The ceremony will take place at the Longacre Theatre o…

The 2026 honorees of the Theatre World Awards, recognizing outstanding debut performances in Broadway or off-Broadway productions, were announced on May 7. The ceremony will take place at the Longacre Theatre o…

Adrien Brody, Rachel Zegler, and Ben Platt are tapped for the upcoming film Last Dance, Deadline reports. In addition to co-starring, Platt will also write original music for the film, which will be performed b…

It’s The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program spotlights exclusive A-list celebrities, the unsung heroes of Broadway and behind-the-scenes stories on Bro…

May 5, 2026: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron FasslerWell, the 79th Annual Tony Nominations have just been announced and, as usual, theatre fans all over are reviewing the situation. In a year in which musi…

Kim Kardashian visited The Fear of 13 on Broadway Sunday, speaking on stage with the company after the performance. The reality TV star and business mogul recently joined the producing team of Lindsey Ferrentin…

One of the smartest decisions the creative team of The Fear of 13 made was casting Tessa Thompson in her Broadway debut opposite two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody. This true story of Nick Yarris, stuck on de…

What if the guilt one feels on the death row is not for what he has (allegedly) done? The Fear of 13, written by Lindsey Ferrentino, and directed by David Cromer, opened on Broadway this April, at James Earl Jo…

Two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody received his portrait at Sardi’s on April 30, 2026, to celebrate his Broadway debut in Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play, The Fear of 13, where he stars alongside Gold…

Adrien Brody may have two Oscars under his belt, but he admits to being "quite apprehensive" about returning to the stage for the first time since he was a young boy. "It's a vastly different process from my no…

Adrien Brody receives his Sardi’s portrait in his Broadway debut for THE FEAR OF 13 🎭 Now starring alongside Tessa Thompson, this powerful new Broadway play tells the true story of Nick Yarris, a man wro…

Two-time Oscar winner and THE FEAR OF 13 star Adrien Brody shares what drew him to the role of Nick Yarris, the responsibility of telling a true story and why the experience has changed him. Get tickets to THE…

The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play is now open on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre. The drama starring Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody welcomed a visit from another Hollywood icon, Robert…

THE FEAR OF 13 by Lindsey Ferrentino Directed by David Cromer Starring Adrian Brody and Tessa Thompson James Earl Jones Theatre Official Website  and SCHMIGADOON Book, Music and Lyrics by Cinco Paul Direction …

Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed. Show Me the Money Trading Places, a Broadway-bound musical based on the 1983 comedy of the same name by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod, is holdin…

The Tony Awards Administration Committee has met to confirm the eligibility status of 13 Broadway productions for the 2025-2026 season. This was the fourth and final time this season that the Tony Awards Admini…

By Barbara & Scott Siegel... Let’s take a look at The Queen of Versailles, Proof, Beaches, Fallen Angels, The Fear of 13, and Giant

Two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody will receive famed Sardi’s Portrait on April 30, 2026, to celebrate his Broadway debut in Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play, The Fear of 13, where he stars alongside G…

Renowned theatrical spoilsport Bertolt Brecht decried the stupefying effect of catharsis. By contrast, the new Broadway offering The Fear of 13 revels in it. Adapting liberally from British filmmaker David Sing…

Playwright Lindsey Ferrentino explains the many references, and superstitions, in the title of her new Broadway play.

It’s The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program spotlights exclusive A-list celebrities, the unsung heroes of Broadway and behind-the-scenes stories on Bro…

Music industry executive, criminal justice reform advocate, and CEO of Lava Media, Jason Flom, has officially joined the team of The Fear of 13 as co-producer. The new Broadway play is by Olivier Award nominee …

The Fear of 13, the new play by Lindsey Ferrentino and directed by David Cromer, has fearlessly, officially entered the Broadway season! The production, now running at the James Earl Jones Theatre, is led by tw…

Last week saw the openings of 'The Fear of 13,' 'Proof' and 'Fallen Angels.'

The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino’s play based on the documentary of the same name, opened on Broadway on April 15. Directed by Tony winner David Cromer, the production transferred to Broadway after its sold…

“The Fear of 13,” about a man who spent two decades on death row for a murder he didn’t commit, is a story that the playwright says she “couldn’t shake.”

Adrien Brody, Tessa Thompson, Lindsey Ferrentino and more talk about bringing Nick Yarris' incredible true story to Broadway on opening night of THE FEAR OF 13. Get tickets to THE FEAR OF 13: https://www.broad…

Tony winner Sam Gold (Fun Home, Romeo + Juliet, An Enemy of the People) is attached to direct a Broadway revival of the Tennessee Williams masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for spring 2027, producer Seaview ann…

Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of the number 13 and one of the vocabulary words prison inmate Nick Yarris learned during the years he was on Death Row. It is also the name of his memoir – The Fear of 13: Survi…

By Carol Rocamora... Adrien Brody stars in this amazing, true life story of suffering and redemption

Peter Filichia, Jena Tesse Fox, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Titanique (Broadway), Theater 2020 production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way the the Forum, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Masque…

Ken Fallin's captures Adrian Brody There are performances you admire"and then there are performances that leave you altered. The Fear of 13 is the latter. In a searing theatrical adaptation of David Sington's d…

By David Sheward April 18, 2026: The fear of the number 13 is triskaidekaphobia. But you wouldn't learn that from Lindsey Ferrentino's play The Fear of 13 now at the James Earl Jones after a London run. That's…

Award-winning A-listers open two high-profile shows. We examine whether the Hollywood stars will be able to break through crowded Tony field.

I attended "Off The Record" the same week as "The Fear of 13," both of which are about the failings of the American criminal justice system. The self-described '"theatrical intervention" Off-Off Broadway could …

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 17, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click…

It's pretty much a throw of the dice to put on any Broadway play. But how about a new play? And one with movie stars who've never been on Broadway? Yikes. But two time Oscar winner Adrien Brody, and rising star…

The play stars two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody opposite recent Golden Globe nominee Tessa Thompson.

The Fear of 13, the new play by Lindsey Ferrentino and directed by David Cromer, has fearlessly, officially entered the Broadway season! The production, now running at the James Earl Jones Theatre, is led by tw…

The Fear of 13 has opened on Broadway, telling the incredible true story of Nick Yarris, who spent more than two decades on death row for a crime he insists he did not commit. The cast is led by two-time Oscar …

Adrien Brody suffers (and endures) movingly

'The Fear of 13' opens to mixed reviews, Billy Crystal is back with a new show, superstars set for 'Octet' film Patreon: BroadwayRadiohttps://www.patreon.com/broadwayradio For a transcript of this episode, plea…

Lindsey Ferrentino's new play, The Fear of 13, starring two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Golden Globe Award nominee Tessa Thompson, officially opened on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre on…

Lindsey Ferrentino's new play, The Fear of 13, starring two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Golden Globe Award nominee Tessa Thompson, officially opened on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre on…

Lindsey Ferrentino's new play, The Fear of 13, starring two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Golden Globe Award nominee Tessa Thompson, officially opened on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre on…

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is April 16, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click…

Nick's got a story to tell you. About how a routine traffic stop turned into a conviction for murder. About how he spent the next 22 years on death row. About how he finally petitioned the court to ask not for …

Ferrentino's choice to make Nick look like he might be an unreliable narrator thus becomes bizarre; it certainly works against the clearer passions of the documentary. If you don't know the back story, then the…

I had no such ambivalence viewing The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino's stage adaptation, now at Broadway's James Earl Jones Theatre. I knew it was bullshit within minutes of Adrien Brody pimp-rolling onstage, f…

"The Fear of 13" is deeply moving. Yet it falls short of being remarkable with uneven pacing and its ever-shifting tone. Translating a documentary into a Broadway production is no easy feat. Despite some bumps …

Even in the harshest descriptions of the violence and almost unbelievably cruel twists of fate that Yarris endured (the DNA testing keeps getting accidentally mucked up), Brody lends him a vital indomitable spa…

One leaves the Fear of 13 certainly horrified by the injustice done to Yarris, and moved by his journey to freedom, but it's a fleeting feeling. Ferrentino and Brody have not burrowed deep enough to make the pl…

Brody comports himself well enough. He is poised and relaxed, and the delicate, damaged spirit he brings to his heartbreaking films transitions smoothly to the theater. It's just that "The Fear of 13," as writt…

The play stars two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody opposite recent Golden Globe nominee Tessa Thompson.

Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson make confident Broadway debuts, but the uneven script makes for a narratively slippery prison drama.

Reviews are in for The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino's new play now open on Broadway at the James Earl Jones Theatre. The production marks the Broadway debuts of Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson, who lead a ca…

Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Emmy winner Tessa Thompson celebrate their first Broadway opening with the cast of THE FEAR OF 13. The real-life Nick Yarris who Brody portrays joined the cast for openi…

Adrien Brody throws Nick Yarris a bouquet of roses on opening night. It was Yarris' real life for whom their true story is based on and is now being told on Broadway in THE FEAR OF 13. Tap over to Broadway.com…

James Earl Jones theatre, New York There's a strong emotional pull to this fact-based story of injustice, but on stage it's all a little too polite to truly soar If the meat and potatoes of Death of a Salesman …

★★★★☆ Lindsey Ferrentino dramatizes David Sington's eye-opening documentary, David Cromer directs The post The Fear of 13: Adrien Brody Acquits Himself as Death Row Convict appeare…

"Time can be a blisteringly fast thing, where in the blink of an eye " ten years are gone from your life, but the next week is agony." Nick Yarris (Adrien Brody) opens Lindsey Ferrentino's "The Fear of 13" with…

Theatrely's Broadway review of The Fear of 13 by Lindsey Ferrentino and starring Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson in a new production directed by David Cromer at the James Earl Jones Theatre in New York City.

Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson make affecting Broadway debuts in The Fear of 13, Lindsey Ferrentino's based-on-a-true-story play about a falsely accused death row inmate and the woman who loves him from the ot…

At age 21, Nick Yarris was stopped during a routine traffic stop, arrested and sentenced to die for the rape and murder of a young wife and mother. Though Yarris did not commit this crime, he would spend the ne…

Our Sufferer Laureate plays Pennsylvania inmate Nick Yarris in "The Fear of 13," Lindsey Ferrentino's curiously unmoving and talky, talky, talky play that opened Wednesday night at the James Earl Jones Theatre.

The latest film-to-stage adaptation to land on Broadway is a curious fact-based yarn about a Pennsylvania man unjustly convicted of a brutal rape and murder who sat on death row for two decades before he was ex…

★★★☆☆ Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson make their Broadway debuts in this true-life drama about a prisoner on death row. The post The Fear of 13: Prison Drama Feels Like a Long Str…

Adrien Brody in his Broadway debut tells the true story of a man who spent more than two decades on Death Row for a murder he did not commit. Lindsey Ferrentino's play is also the story of a jailhouse romance, …

Broadway " James Earl Jones Theater: 138 West 48 Street. April 15-July 12, 2026. Drama. Author: Lindsey Ferrentino. Director: David Cromer. 2 hrs. Critic: David Sheward (April 2026). *** The fear of the number …

Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Emmy winner Tessa Thompson celebrate their first Broadway opening with the cast of THE FEAR OF 13. The real-life Nick Yarris who Brody portrays joined the cast for openi…