DETROIT — This year's Windsor International Film Festival is packing a punch, and not just the right hook Sydney Sweeney is throwing in her new boxing drama "Christy." The 11-day film fest is showing 231 movi…

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The critically acclaimed new play stars Will Harrison and Victoria Clark.

The final week of performances of Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Punch will be streamed and available to audiences everywhere. Captured live at Manhattan Theatre Clubs’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, th…

The based-on-a-true-story play should be required viewing for every young man.

Sam Robards, Victoria Clarke, Camila Canó-Flaviá, and Will Harrison in “Punch” (photo by Matthew Murphy).October 13, 2025: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler If you’ve never heard the term �…

The show: ‘A Chorus Line at Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam. What makes it special?: For Goodspeed at least, this feels like a modern revival — even if it is 50 years old and set in the mid-‘70s whe…

A busy production overshadows the human element in this new play by James Graham. Cameron Kelsall reviews. The post Review: Punch at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

Timothée Chalamet and Dr. Jill Biden recently paid a visit to Punch on Broadway and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the moment. Check out photos of them with the cast below! Manhattan Theatre Club's America…

Broadway is buzzing with reunions, openings and backstage secrets this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. Fadal chats with Gavin Lee about joining the long-running phenomenon The Lion King and stepp…

“You always step in,” Jacob Dunne (Will Harrison) tells us from the stage of the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, explaining the code of the Meadows housing estate where loyalty means throwing fists without thin…

Broadway is buzzing with reunions, openings and backstage secrets this week on The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal. Fadal chats with Gavin Lee about joining the long-running phenomenon The Lion King and stepp…

It’s The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes access both on and off the …

The Broadway Theatre Review: James Graham’s Punch By Ross “It’s a hot one today, boiling,” he states, wired and itching for drama, “and I’m not even high yet.” It’s a sharp, solid catch that hol…

Now she might write him a love song! Tony nominee Sara Bareilles and stage and screen actor Joe Tippett have officially tied the knot. After first going public with their relationship in 2017 and announcing the…

Despite its noble-hearted objective to discourage random acts of violence (well, at least among the working class), Punch suffers from "A Clockwork Orange" problem. Jacob (Will Harrison) is a thoroughly charism…

Two Cautionary Takeaways 1) AI is recommending closed or irrelevant shows: Across two test days (October 2 and 3, 2025), Open AI’s ChatGPT repeatedly recommended titles that are closed (e.g. A Doll’s House,…

Punch is here! Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Punch, by James Graham, celebrated opening night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre just last week. BroadwayWorld was there and you can check out phot…

Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Punch, by James Graham, is now playing on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Check out photos of the cast taking their opening night bows and walking the r…

What goes into crafting the words that make up our favorite Broadway shows? How do Broadway playwrights and book writers make our favorite characters shine and our favorite scenes come alive? BroadwayWorld is f…

Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Punch @ Manhattan Theatre Club, MURDOCH: The Final Interview @ Theater555, Caroline @ MCC Theater, Oklahoma! @ Northern Kentucky University, Mexo…

Punch – 04 October 2025 Based on actual events, Punch is a story of character arcs and personal growth after an unintended single punch kills a young man, leaving behind a 19 year old perpetrator and both of …

The world of theatre has changed once again–one word titles are fashionable, and nuance is out. This production of Punch, a new play by James Graham, is based on the book Right From Wrong by Jacob Dunn and is…

New Diorama theatre, LondonEphemeral Ensemble’s atmospheric but unfocused follow-up to Rewind depicts the west’s ecologically ruinous colonisation of Latin America from a feminist perspective The previous s…

James Graham has two reasons to celebrate this week. His new play, Punch, not only opened on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, but also opened in London just days before. "It's great, the casts are …

October is chock-a-block, as the Brits like to say, with theatrical activity. Tracy Letts’ Mary Page Marlowe reaches the Old Vic Theatre with Susan Sarandon heading the cast, and Rachel Zegler is appearing in…

James Graham has two reasons to celebrate this week. His new play, Punch, not only opened on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, but also opened in London just days before. "It's great, the casts are ba…

Will Harrison and two-time Tony winner Victoria Clark lead the American premiere of James Graham’s Punch, directed by Adam Penford, which opened on Broadway on September 29 at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samue…

Before she was a two-time Tony Award winner, Victoria Clark was an understudy, and a Jellicle cat. "Before [Light in the Piazza], I think I was seen as the sassy, funny girl who could belt and kind of sing anyt…

Join the cast of James Graham's PUNCH on the opening night red carpet! Get tickets to PUNCH: https://www.broadway.com/shows/punch/

Broadway's hard-hitting play Punch opened at the Samuel J.Friedman Theatre on September 29. Daisy Jones & the Six actor Will Harrison leads the production in his Broadway debut, alongside Kimberly Akimbo'…

Broken Britain has a big problem with youth. About a million of those aged 16 to 24 are NEETs (not in education, employment or training), some 13 per cent of this age group. Many working-class youngsters are re…

Stars of stage and screen came out to welcome the James Graham play to Manhattan Theatre Club.

By David Sheward September 30, 2025: It’s going to be very difficult to resist the obvious praise for Punch, James Graham’s hard-hitting British import presented by Manhattan Theater Club in association w…

By Isa Goldberg September 30, 2025: Justice is not about revenge. Therein lies the ontological premise of Punch, an action-packed docudrama set in The Meadows, a social rented housing complex in Nottingham. A…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/28/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …

Now running at Manhattan Theatre Club is the American premiere of Punch, by James Graham, which just opened last night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Check out what the critics had to say about the new play…

Will Harrison leads the cast, with Adam Penford at the helm, at Manhattan Theatre Club.

By Alix Cohen Jacob (Will Harrison) is growing up in what Americans would call the projects- a British estate of low income housing. His attentive, single mother (an excellent Lucy Taylor) sees to it he goes to…

‘Punch’ opens on Broadway, ‘Schmigadoon!’ teases Broadway announcement, first look at ‘Masquerade’ Since 2016, “Today on Broadway” has been the first and only daily podcast recapping the top the…

James Graham’s Punch, opened tonight at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Broadway home, the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Punch is also currently running on London’s West End, has arrived as part of a season where …

Will Harrison leads the cast, with Adam Penford at the helm.

As Jacob tears through Nottingham in a whirlwind of drugs, girls, and bar fights, he makes a fatal mistake that lands him in prison. But as he struggles to accept the consequences of his actions and build a new…

“Punch” comes up short in capturing the exchange between the victim’s family and the perpetrator because it always leans on Jacob’s perspective, down to an ending that shows him happily moving on in his…

James Graham’s play Punch, as directed by Adam Penford, is a very, very British work: it’s sturdily acted, choreo-directed within an inch of its life and shot through with a sense of community only a countr…

It leads to a luminous climax, arguably the most beautifully written single scene of the year. Jacob, Joan, David, and moderator Nicola (Camila Canó-Flaviá) sit in a simple half-circle, on hard plastic chairs…

It’s quite a story, though not necessarily the kind that makes for the most astonishing theater. That’s not to denigrate Punch, which is solidly built and well-meaning without sanctimony. Graham, Penford, a…

Despite the inherent drama and sadness of the entire situation, Punch too often feels like a PSA for the restorative justice procedure, with lots of exposition and step-by-step procedural instructions that, fra…

Bold and deeply human, Punch is initially a bit slow on the wind up, but its stellar cast help weave together an almost unbelievable story of compassion and empathy in its second act that left many theatergoers…

But while story itself is inspiring, some central emotional focus seems missing from the way it unfolds in Punch, which winds up feeling less like a full-blown play and more like a digressive PSA about the dang…

James Graham’s Punch, just brought to New York from England’s Nottingham (approx. 127 miles northwest of London) and London’s fringe, plunges more deeply into emotional areas—almost Biblically—than ju…

James Graham’s Broadway play tells the true story of how restorative justice brought together a young man who threw a fatal punch and the parents of the victim.

Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Punch, by James Graham, opens on Broadway tonight at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. Read the reviews! Punch centers around Jacob, a young man who makes a fatal mis…

By Tulis McCall Will Harrison as Jacob is kept on his toes for the better part of the first act of Punch, by James Graham, now at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Friedman Theatre.  Harrison tears into Jacob’s tee…

In one of the most moving scenes that I’ve ever witnessed in a theater,  Jacob finally meets the parents of the young man whom he killed. Making an extraordinary Broadway debut, Will Harrison as Jacob stare…

★★★★☆ James Graham's drama revolves around a fateful interaction that led to unexpected depths of healing and redemption The post Punch: A Play That Speaks to Our Divided Times appeared first on New Y…

The arrival of James Graham’s Punch on Broadway at this particular moment in time would seem thoroughly in keeping with horrific real-life events and the gut-wrenching zeitgeisty fictions like Adolescence tha…

Theatrely's Broadway review of Punch by James Graham at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre home to Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City

By Samuel L. Leiter September 28, 2025: It’s been a long time since I’ve sat in a Broadway theatre—or a theatre anywhere—and felt my eyes and nose swell with so much moisture I had to dig in my backpa…

How do we make sense of a senseless act? James Graham’s searing and unforgettable new drama, Punch, digs into a real-life incident in Nottingham, England in 2011 when a 19-year-old hooligan named Jacob Dunne …

★★★★☆ James Graham tells true story, Adam Penford directs theatrically, Will Harrison tour de forces The post Punch: Sin, Redemption Delivered with Emotional Wallop appeared first on New York Stage Re…

An overblown theatrical dramatization of a true-life incident; a young Englishman dies after being assaulted for no reason by another young Englishman. The post Punch appeared first on Theaterscene.org.

James Graham's play transfixes the audience at every stage For the first part of Punch it feels as if you’re riding a roller coaster, watching the world speed and loop past as you see it from the perspective …

Review: Punch at Apollo Theatre "a vital piece of theatre, one that should be seen by every young person in the country" The post Review: Punch at Apollo Theatre appeared first on Theatre Weekly.

Host Tamsen Fadal chats with two-time Tony® winner Victoria Clark about returning to Broadway in James Graham's PUNCH. Get tickets to PUNCH: https://www.broadway.com/shows/punch/

Victoria Clark doesn't do anything halfway. So when the two-time Tony winner was cast in Punch on Broadway, a play based on the book Right From Wrong by Jacob Dunne, she immediately booked a ticket to Nottingh…

The Other Palace, LondonGeorgina Castle and Josh St Clair make a likable couple who endlessly replay their first meeting but this adaptation needs more emotional punch Perhaps it’s unfair to compare this new …

The Broadway play “Punch” retells the true story of a fatal blow and how restorative justice brought healing to the parents and to the young man who threw the punch.

Age: 29 Hometown: Ithaca, New York Current Role: Will Harrison is making his Broadway debut as Jacob Dunne in James Graham's Punch, a new play based on the true story of consequence, redemption and forgive…

Fall is here, and that means a slate of buzzy new shows coming to Broadway. The fall preview episode of The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal has the inside scoop on all 14 productions opening this season. Learn …

It’s the jam-packed 2025 fall preview special of The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater television series. The program features Broadway’s biggest stars, exclusive interviews and b…

★★★★★ THE HARDER THEY COME, STRATFORD EAST Great story, songs and performances Natey Jones and Madeline Charlemagne lead a perfectly realised adaptation of the seminal movie The impact of great art …

Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is September 24, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: NEW - BWW For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click…

Click below to access all the Broadway grosses from all the shows for the week ending 9/14/2025 in BroadwayWorld's grosses section. Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative …