Fans and critics are loving JAWS inspired play 'The Shark Is Broken'
JAWS inspired play ‘The Shark Is Broken’ continues to take a bite out of Broadway with both fans and critics spreading plenty of shark love for the stage recreation of the making of Steven Spielberg’s classic shark thriller.
Directed by Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson, co-written by Ian Shaw (son of JAWS actor Robert Shaw) and Joseph Nixon, and inspired by Robert Shaw’s experience playing Quint on the notorious shoot, THE SHARK IS BROKEN celebrates movie history and peeks at the choppy waters behind Hollywood’s first blockbuster.
Entertainment weekly, The Wall Street Journal and Mashable all laud the cast Ian Shaw, Colin Donnell (Roy Scheider) and Alex Brightman (Richard Dreyfuss)….
Fans are blown away by the show and recommend it to anyone who loves JAWS, the theatre and movies!
The press have praised the show with Deadline saying the show is “So vivid you can almost smell the salt air.” - quite the compliment as that’s exactly how it feels to watch JAWS!
More reviews:
Rolling Stone: Inside ‘The Shark Is Broken,’ the Meta Play About the Making of ‘Jaws’
The Wall Streey Journal: ‘The Shark Is Broken’ Review: In the ‘Jaws’ of a Blockbuster’
The New Yorker: An Oedipal Fish Story on Broadway
The New York Times: ‘Wrestling With His Past. And an Animatronic Shark’
You can catch The Shark Is Broken at the Golden Theater, New York, NYC.
About The Shark Is Broken
FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed…again. The lead actors—theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider—are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic…if it doesn’t sink them all.
Step aboard the Orca and into THE SHARK IS BROKEN, a “profound dive behind the scenes of the making of Jaws” (The Daily Telegraph, ★★★★). This Olivier Award-nominated new play is “hilariously brilliant and pure genius” raves the Sunday Express (★★★★★) and stars Ian Shaw (War Horse, Common) as his father, Robert Shaw, Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice, School of Rock) as Richard Dreyfuss, and Colin Donnell (Anything Goes, “Chicago Med”) as Roy Scheider.
Short tempers. Short circuits. 95 minutes, no intermission.
Book tickets now: thesharkisbroken.com