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About Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime is a New York Times Critic's Pick! See Oscar nominee June Squibb, two-time Tony winner Cynthia Nixon, Tony winner Danny Burstein, and stage and screen star Christopher Lowell in this extraordinary and prescient Pulitzer Prize finalist by Jordan Harrison. A “provocative and chilling family drama that packs a punch” (Entertainment Weekly), Marjorie Prime marks Harrison's Broadway debut, and the New York Post hails it as "a highlight of the season."
First a play that premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 2015 and then a starry film with Lois Smith and Jon Hamm, this uncanny work of science fiction follows four characters as they wrestle with grief and a solution to it: Primes, or humanoid holograms that resemble our loved ones. What if we never had to grieve them, and they could stay with us forever? Would that lead to happiness, or something more sinister? What scientific advances should we pursue, and which are immoral? See the "compelling, witty, and wrenching" (Daily Beast) Marjorie Prime on Broadway to find out.
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Run time
1hr 30min. No Intermission.
Venue
Categories
Start date
November 20th, 2025
End date
February 15th, 2026
“Haunting meditation on grief, memory, and our AI future”
A Prescient Play That Stays With You
Audiences are captivated by this intimate four-person drama that uses AI companions as a lens to explore grief, memory, and family dysfunction. Written over a decade ago, reviewers find its themes sta...
What It Feels Like
- Quietly devastating
- Thought-provoking
- Deeply human
You’ll Love This If…
- You appreciate intimate family dramas that linger long after
- You want smart, timely explorations of AI and what makes us human
- You treasure exceptional acting over flashy spectacle
My husband and I enjoyed this play. The acting was great, and the theme of the story stayed with us long after the play ended.
Interesting projection of life after robots take over. Chilling. But this revival does not have the punch of the original.
Amazing set design ! Funny! energetic !
Stars on stage
June Squibb
Cynthia Nixon
Danny Burstein
Christopher Lowell
Marjorie Prime cast and creative team
By: Jordan Harrison
Director: Anne Kauffman
Producer: Second Stage Theater
Cast list: June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, Danny Burstein, Christopher Lowell
Sets: Lee Jellinek
Costumes: Márion Talán de la Rosa
Lighting: Ben Stanton
Sound: Daniel Kluger
Other info: Original music by Daniel Kluger
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair seating in Orchestra and Mezzanine. ADA Stage Door entrance. Elevator access. T-coil listening, open captioning, and audio description.
More information about Marjorie Prime
Jordan Harrison is no stranger to writing sci-fi works: his 2025 play The Antiquities, was a Drama Desk Award nominee and looked at what happens when humans become more machine-like, and what artifacts that illuminated our humanity remain as we as a species fade away. A stirring work, it echoes many of the themes in Marjorie Prime, which made its New York debut in 2015 but continues to be more and more topical as human invention blurs the line between what is real and not.
Harrison has an unflinching interest in how technology and artificial intelligence shape how we navigate the world, and Marjorie Prime is a gorgeous and breathtaking allegory exploring the costs of advanced scientific discoveries. An exploration of aging, memory, and family, Marjorie Prime asks how far we would go to preserve the ones we've lost, and whether even striving to do so is more destructive than the process of grief.
What to watch for
- Marjorie Prime premiered at Playwrights Horizons and earned a New York Times Critic's Pick.
- Anne Kauffman, a Tony nominee for her work on Mary Jane, directs this Broadway premiere after staging the Off-Broadway premiere 10 years ago.
- Jordan Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and also wrote for Orange Is the New Black.
- Czech writer Karel Čapek’s 1920 science fiction play R.U.R. first introduced the term robot.
Frequently asked questions
How do you get tickets for Marjorie Prime?
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What is the running time of Marjorie Prime?
Marjorie Prime runs for 1hr 30min. No Intermission.
What is Marjorie Prime about?
Marjorie Prime is a sci-fi play about a future where loved ones never die: they inhabit clones, or Primes, to always be by the bereaved's side.
Who wrote Marjorie Prime?
Guggenheim fellow, Pulitzer finalist, and Drama Desk nominee Jordan Harrison wrote this play.
Who directs Marjorie Prime?
Tony nominee Anne Kauffman, who directed The Bedwetter and Mary Jane, directs this play.
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