Blackout Songs tickets
About Blackout Songs
Get Blackout Songs tickets on TodayTix to see this aching, intimate, and stunning new works about a man and a woman who meet in AA before beginning another roller coaster ride together. Blackout Songs in New York stars Abby Lee and Owen Teague as the show's principal couple. An illuminating portrait of addiction and the long road to recovery, Blackout Songs off Broadway runs for a limited time only.
Experience Blackout Songs to see Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road, Black Rabbit) and Teague (Black Mirror, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes) star in this new play by Joe White, a two-time Olivier Award nominee who makes his American theatre debut with the show. Blackout Songs follows a couple who meets in Alcoholics Anonymous, leading to a decade-long on-and-off relationship during which they experience relapse, recovery, and ecstasy. Rory McGregor (Tender Napalm) directs this New York premiere.
Run time
1hr 30min. No intermission.
Categories
Age
Ages 18+.
Start date
January 15th, 2026
End date
February 28th, 2026
“Raw, intimate addiction drama with powerhouse performances”
A Devastating Love Story Through Addiction's Lens
This intimate two-hander delivers a brutally honest exploration of alcoholism and toxic love, powered by committed performances that audiences consistently praised as phenomenal. The nonlinear, fragme...
What It Feels Like
- Emotionally intense
- Heartbreakingly intimate
- Disorienting yet gripping
You’ll Love This If…
- You appreciate fearless, vulnerable acting
- You connect with raw portrayals of addiction and codependency
- You enjoy nonlinear storytelling that mirrors fractured memory
Good concept and interesting portrayal of alcoholism, but the execution can be better. The writing is broken up to reflect the sense of broken memories but it takes the audience too long to figure that out and it hurts the pacing.
The story is intimate and emotionally strong
It felt more like a scene prepared for a acting class then a fleshed out production
Stars on stage
Abbey Lee
Owen Teague
Blackout Songs cast and creative team
By: Joe White
Director: Rory McGregor
Cast list: Abbey Lee and Owen Teague
Sets: Scott Pask
Costumes: Avery Reed
Lighting: Stacey Derosier
Sound: Brian Hickey
Other info: Original music by Brian Hickey, movement consultation and intimacy coordination by Sarah Parker, props supervision by Matthew Frew
Venue
Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theatre Space - NYC
More information about Blackout Songs
In crafting Blackout Songs, coming to the MCC as a rental, playwright Joe White aimed to create a raw, honest, and unsparing examination of two people in love and in recovery.
“With Blackout Songs, I set out to write a memory play about two people who can’t trust their memories,” said White in a statement. “Who fell in love and forgot how. Who invented things to fill the gaps. Who lost track of the truth. I wanted this play to feel like someone pouring their heart out over someone and sort of reveling in the doomed romance of it all."
The show earned an Olivier Award nomination for its London premiere. Now, it comes to New York with a strong creative team also includes set designer Scott Pask, costume designer Avery Reed, lighting designer Stacey Derosier, sound designer and composer Brian Hickey, with movement consultant and intimacy coordinator Sarah Parker and props supervisor Matthew Frew.
What to watch for
- The Daily Telegraph gave this play five stars in London.
- Rory McGregor directed the West End revival and the international tour of the National Theatre production of The Lehman Trilogy.
- Owen Teague had a main role on HBO's Mrs. Fletcher opposite Kathryn Hahn.
- Abbey Lee is a model who has also appeared in Old, Office Christmas Party, and Waco: The Aftermath.
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