A Little Life Off-Broadway

A Little Life 2022

Run Time:
4hrs 10 min with intermission
Opened: October 20, 2022
Closing: October 29, 2022

A Little Life - 2022 - Off-Broadway History , Info & More

Howard Gilman Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn

Based on the novel by Hanya Yanagihara

Internationaal Theater Amsterdam

Concept and direction by Ivo van Hove

Part of Next Wave 2022

No book has captivated and moved millions of readers during the past few years like A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.

In this epic, worldwide bestselling novel, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award in 2015, the complex relationships between four ambitious friends—a lawyer, an actor, an architect, and an artist—unfold over more than three decades. Adapted for the stage by celebrated director Ivo van Hove, this harrowing story follows them from college into the pressures of middle age in New York City. Jude, the troubled protagonist, is an introverted lawyer. Intense friendships are everything to him. Fearing intimacy as much as he hungers for it, his physical and mental well-being are at stake. The book and the play, both requiring total surrender, test the profound limits and potential of love.

Note: This show includes strong language, nudity, violence, and content about suicide.


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The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra will present its annual Spring Concert: A Little Gem and a Grand Masterpiece at St Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, 157 Montague St, Brooklyn, NY on June 1, 2024 at 7:30pm.

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