The Antiquities tickets
About The Antiquities
Get The Antiquities tickets and see the newest play from Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison, the writer behind the hit play Marjorie Prime starring Lois Smith. Like that acclaimed play, The Antiquities takes place in the future and examines what humans were like when they were alive. Intrigued? See yourself on stage: The Antiquities plays at Playwrights Horizons for a limited run only, now through March.
Experience The Antiquities in New York and visit the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, where curators have taken painstaking detail to recreate human life, their newest exhibit. What did humans eat, what were they like, and why did they go extinct? See The Antiquities off Broadway to find out more in this expansive, dazzling play of speculative fiction. Tony Award winner David Cromer (The Band’s Visit, Our Town) and Caitlin Sullivan co-direct this premiere, a co-production with the Vineyard Theatre and the Goodman Theatre.
Run time
1hr 30min. No intermission.
Venue
Categories
Age
Ages 14+.
Start date
January 11th, 2025
End date
March 2nd, 2025
The Antiquities cast and creative team
By: Jordan Harrison
Director: David Cromer and Caitlin Sullivan
Producer: Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, Goodman Theatre
Venue
Playwrights Horizons
More information about The Antiquities
Jordan Harrison has a penchant for writing plays that show what humans are like from a futuristic lens. In Marjorie Prime, robots who mirrored the look and actions of loved ones after they passed helped null grieving by providing the surviving with an eternal companion. Now, in The Antiquities, he shoots far into the future to show what a museum for humanity might look like.
The results are uncanny, strange, and wildly theatrical. Audiences can expect a gorgeous production design that pays homage to humans’ capabilities for creativity — and distruction. Featuring a cast of all-star New York actors who frequently bring new plays to life, The Antiquities is a cry for human connection, curiosity, and creativity.
Harrison is known for his period work: plays are hardly every set in the present but always comment on it. What will people remember about our current age decades, centuries, and millennia form now? This revelatory play unlocks those mysteries.
What to watch for
- Jordan Harrison has had a number of works at Playwrights Horizons, including Marjorie Prime with Lois Smith and Log Cabin with Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
- David Cromer, one of today’s most sought-after directors, is known for his austere styling and highly evocative worlds.
- The Brooklyn Rail wrote, “Filled with dazzling wordplay, archaic vocabulary, and odd malapropisms, the theatrical worlds of Jordan Harrison lift language off the page and into three-dimensional space.”
- Up next art Playwrights is Hold Me in the Water, an inventive new solo play from Obie winner Ryan J. Haddad.
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