Playing Burton tickets

Following an acclaimed staging at the Welsh National Theatre, Emmy® winner Matthew Rhys (“The Americans,” “Widow’s Bay,” “The Beast in Me”) makes his Lincoln Center Theater debut with a “stunning” (Times of London) portrayal of an acting legend. On the night of his death, iconic stage and screen star Richard Burton offers his final performance: a passionate, poetic reflection on his own legacy. With tenderness, wry humor, and Shakespearean grandeur, Burton recalls a life shaped by love, tragedy, scandal – including his two explosive marriages to Elizabeth Taylor – and his own undeniable gifts. “Matthew Rhys invests Burton with such speed of thought and such complexity,” raves The Times of London, “that this tribute becomes a kind of one-man Hamlet.” Directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher (LCT’s My Fair Lady, The King & I), Mark Jenkins’s Playing Burton is a captivating study of one incomparable actor – and a thrilling showcase for another.