Archduke tickets
About Archduke
See Rajiv Joseph's newest play, a rip-roading dark comedy. Archduke plays in Manhattan for a limited run at the award-winning Roundabout Theatre Company during its 2025/26 season at its Laura Pels Theatre. Patrick Page (the Tony Award nominee famous for originating the role of Hades in Hadestown) stars in this new play directed by Tony Award winner Darko Tresnjak (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder).
Archduke in New York takes audiences back to 1914 Serbia. The country is destitute, and young Gavrilo Princip has TB. With his country in shambles and his sickness a death sentence, what does Gavrilo have to lose? As such, he's easily lured by promise...and a sandwich. See Archduke off Broadway to see how the events play out: you think you know how World War I began, but perhaps there was more insanity, and humor, than you first imagined.
Run time
2hr 15min. (Approx.) Incl. 15min intermission.
Categories
Age
Ages 14.
Start date
October 23rd, 2025
End date
December 21st, 2025
Thoroughly enjoyable to experience the acting craft of the cast led by Patrick Page and Kristine Nielsen up close in Roundabout's intimate off-Broadway house. Very inventive and engaging storytelling and staging brought a historical tale to life and shined a light on the ripple effects of small acts and the importance of learning from the past.
Stars on stage
Patrick Page
Kristine Nielsen
Archduke cast and creative team
By: Rajiv Joseph
Director: Darko Tresnjak
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company
Cast list: Patrick Page (as Dragutin "Apis" Dimitrijevic), Jake Berne (as Gavrilo), Kristine Nielsen (as Sladjana), Adrien Rolet (as Trifko), Jason Sanchez (as Nedeljko)
Sets: Alexander Dodge
Costumes: Linda Cho
Lighting: Matthew Richards
Sound: Jane Shaw
Other info: Hair, wig, and makeup design by Tom Watson; fight direction by Rocio Mendez
Venue
The Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
More information about Archduke
Rajiv Joseph is a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and an Obie Award winner for Describe the Night. Known for his singular world view, his writing is sharp and wry, as further evidenced in his newest dark comedy. While Archduke may sound like a historical drama, it is actually something funnier and sneakier: an examination of men who, when down on their luck, will fall into vulnerable traps to grasp for power.
Such is the story of Gavrilo Princip, a teenager of diminishing health in a diminishing country. Meeting a depraved Captain who sends the boys on a mission, Gavrilo believes his duty will restore order and justice to his struggling nation and avenge the unfairness of his terminal illness. The assignment? Assassinate the heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Crafting a historical comedy that is actually a present-day allegory, Joseph asks: what happens when a person feels like they have nothing left to lose? What methods are acceptable in the fight against oppression?
What to watch for
- Roundabout is known for splashy revivals, as with Pirates! The Penzance Musical or She Loves Me, but it also produces exciting and bold new works, as with this new play.
- Rajiv Joseph is hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most provocatively talented American playwrights."
- This new play has been seen at regional theatres, and The Los Angeles Times wrote, "The comic energy of the writing carries the characters to their tragic finish line."
- Darko Tresnjak has directed two productions on Broadway: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder in 2013 and Anastasia in 2017.
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