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Hangmen got a second chance at Broadway after it was forced to shutter while still in previews back in 2020. Now it's back, and this time around, Alfie Allen joins the company as the mysteri…
"I really like quirky little things that have never been done before," explains "Hangmen" star Tracie Bennett. The Tony-nominated actress has enjoyed a varied career on stage, which has seen…
"I love the darkness of it. I love the morbidness of it. But also, there's a warmth to it," says Alfie Allen as he describes the new play "Hangmen." The actor plays Mooney, a mysterious pres…
Black comedy, or gallows humor, is a style of story telling that makes light of subject matter usually considered somewhat taboo, like death, suicide and disease. Either term applies to Mart…
Taking the law into your own hands can be a risky business as Harry Wade and friends find out in Martin McDonagh's hilarious dark comedy "Hangmen" which finally made its Broadway debut after…
Two years after its premature pandemic closure, Martin McDonagh's play "Hangmen" has slipped the proverbial noose and returned to Broadway in a plot twist you might think McDonagh wrote hims…
The Martin McDonagh play returned to the Golden Theatre April 21.
The Tony Award nominations will be announced May 9th (changed from May 3rd), as the eligibility cut off has been changed to May 4th (it was April 28th) to give the nominators the chance to s…
 By: David Sheward
April 24, 2022: Dark humor pervades two new Broadway productions, both delayed years by the COVID crisis and finally opening in an atmosphere of disquiet and insecur…
"I've always wanted to put something a little exciting on stage," explains Martin McDonagh, "the kind of excitement you'd see in a movie, I suppose." The playwright has a history of exciting…
Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-winning comedy Hangmen opened just last night at Broadway's Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street).Â
Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-winning comedy Hangmen opened just last night at Broadway's Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). BroadwayWo…
Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-winning comedy Hangmen opened just last night at Broadway's Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). BroadwayWo…
It seems to me a very odd time to be bringing back Martin McDonagh's play, written and first produced in the mid 1960s, yet here it is at the Golden Theater on Broadway, in a smashingly …
A talented cast, funny bits of dark humor, a clever set design, and a dash of Alfred Hitchcock-style suspense add up to an unexpectedly tepid production of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen, opening…
In the theatrical annals of wild and wicked stage plays, there are black comedies, blacker comedies, and blacker-than-the-dead-of-night comedies like "Hangmen." Â Prolific playwright Marti…
Last night, Hangmen officially opened on Broadway. Check out the reviews here! Plus, get an all new first look at photos from Funny Girl, starring Beanie Feldstein and Ramin Karimloo.
Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in. The company also includes two-time Olivier winner and Tony nominee Tracie Bennett, ...
Martin McDonagh's Olivier Award-winning and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award-winning comedy Hangmen opens at Broadway's Golden Theatre tonight! Read the reviews!
Martin McDonagh's rollicking comedy about capital punishment, now on Broadway, feels like a perfect fit for our unjust times.
Sneaky, menacing and funny are descriptions that come up more than once in Martin McDonagh's Hangmen, but not one of the three words quite does justice to this irresistibly pitch-black comed…
"The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley." " "To A Mouse" by Robert Burns Despite his claim to be "quite content to keep [his] own counsel, as [he] sees fit, and leave the ji…
It's 1963, and England's second-best hangman Harry Wade is performing his last execution, of a young man protesting his innocence and desperately fighting for his life to the very end. Two y…
"Hangmen" starts with a bang, or should I say, a snap of a neck. The play begins on the morning of an execution, with the condemned man proclaiming his innocence. "I'm getting hung by nincom…
The new comedy is a heaping scoop of jaw-droppers and taboos " albeit with a sophisticated takeaway about the justice system " that'll make wimps clutch their pearls for dear life.