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…

You can now get a first look at production photos of Lindsey Ferrentino's new play, The Fear of 13, starring two-time Academy Award winner Adrien Brody and Golden Globe Award nominee Tessa Thompson on Broadway …

The pair performed a scene from 'The Fear of 13' at The New York Times.

Originally published on Vogue.comView this story online Playing a real-life person is nothing new for Adrien Brody. The acclaimed actor earned his first Oscar for his performance as WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Szpilman i…

The power of storytelling is at the heart of The Fear of 13, now playing at Broadway's James Earl Jones Theatre. The play, written by Lindsey Ferrentino and starring Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson, tells the c…

Broadway held strong last week as a bevy of spring arrivals caught ticket-buyers' attention, with Becky Shaw, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Death of a Salesman and Titaníque opening to strong reviews and full or …

Kim Kardashian wants to work these days, this time as a Broadway producer. On April 13, The Fear of 13 announced that Kardashian has joined the producing team as part of her continued effort to bring attenti…

Kim Kardashian has joined the producing team of The Fear of 13 on Broadway as part of her continued effort to bring attention to criminal justice reform. The new play by Lindsey Ferrentino, currently in preview…

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

Adrien Brody stars in Lindsey Ferrentino's new play, which is scheduled to open on April 15.

Kim Kardashian has joined the producing team of Broadway's wrongful-conviction drama The Fear of 13 starring Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson as part of what the media personality and entrepreneur says is her co…

Kim Kardashian has crammed a lot into her career. She's a reality TV pioneer, a fashion brand founder and the lead of a Ryan Murphy show. Now, "The Kardashians" star is about to take on a new challenge " Broadw…

The play, starring Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson, centers on a man wrongly convicted of a crime, fitting into Kardashian's push for social justice reform.

The two-time Oscar winner currently plays a death row inmate in The Fear of 13 on Broadway.

The Fear of 13 playwright Lindsey Ferrentino breaks down her favorite story featured in the new play, currently running on Broadway. Learn more about how she created the play here: https://bway.world/mfq2l Bro…

Broadway's recent spring arrivals enjoyed robust box office last week, with Cats: The Jellicle Ball and Dog Day Afternoon selling out and Giant, Becky Shaw, Death of a Salesman and The Fear of 13 coming within …

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 3/22/2026 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is March 23, 2026 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click Her…

Nothing to fear here. Fresh off its first performance on Broadway March 19, The Fear of 13 released first look production photos of Adrien Brody as Nick Yarris, Tessa Thompson as Jacki, Ephraim Sykes as M…

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 arrived at the James Earl Jones Theatre last night, Th…

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 arrived at the James Earl Jones Theatre last night, Th…

Frontmezzjunkies reports: Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson bring a haunting true story to the stage By Ross With a first preview, the excitement is elevated to high as the lights go down on Broadway. The audienc…

Two-time Oscar winner Adrien Brody is making his Broadway debut in The Fear of 13, and audiences have playwright Lindsey Ferrentino to thank. It is her second Broadway show this season, following The Queen of V…