That Championship Season Revival 2011

Opened: March 6, 2011
Closing: May 29, 2011

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Two-time Olivier Award winner Brian Cox (The Bourne Identity), Jim Gaffigan (Salvation Boulevard), Golden Globe nominee Chris Noth (The Good Wife), Jason Patric (Cat On A Hot Tin Roof) and Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Kiefer Sutherland (24) star in Broadway’s classic drama That Championship Season.



Jason Miller’s Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play returns to Broadway for a strictly limited engagement. Directed by two-time Tony Award winner Gregory Mosher (A View From The Bridge), That Championship Season is a powerhouse drama about the promise of youth… and the challenge of staying in the game.



For over two decades, four players and the coach of a high school championship basketball team have gathered every year to re-live their greatest moment of glory. While three of the players have found small-town success, the fourth has never found his way. At this year's reunion, tensions boil over, and as the celebratory evening turns brutal, long-held secrets bubble to the surface and life-long bonds are shattered.

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FEATURED REVIEWS FOR That Championship Season

The Champs Reunite, Bearing the Nation's Scars
1 / 10

Given the participation of this director and this all-male cast, I was looking forward to “Season” as a sort of Mametian testosterone bath. At some point, though, I realized that it wasn’t a play by Mamet that “Season” recalled, but “The Boys in the Band,” Mart Crowley’s 1968 drama of unhappy homosexuals. I mean, think about it. Both plays present an ostensibly supportive group of friends who, over the course of many drinks, turn on one another and segue into anguished confessions. Heck, there’s even an “I dare you to make that call” telephone scene in both plays. And each ends with characters revealing their profound discontent with their existential conditions. In “Boys,” of course, that’s being gay. The boys of “Season” are afflicted by the disease of being American, and as this play ponderously presents it, there’s no cure in sight.

That Championship Season
5 / 10

Director Gregory Mosher, masterful with last year’s A View from the Bridge, does what he can with lesser material, but he can’t get all his guys into the same game. Yet there’s no single element to blame. Times change. Thirty-eight years ago, ex-jocks wallowing in gallons of booze, casual racism, clammy misogyny and obsessive anti-Semitism might have given New York audiences a frisson, but today, we just call that a sports blog.­­

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Recoups on Broadway
by Robert Diamond - June 5, 2011


The strictly limited engagement of THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON played its final performance on Sunday, May 29th at 3:00PM. Now, Variety reports that the play managed to 'overcome the bad press to achieve a hair's-breadth recoupment of its $2.75 million capitalization.'

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON to Play Final Show 5/29
by BWW News Desk - May 29, 2011


The strictly limited engagement of THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON will play its final performance on Sunday, May 29th at 3:00PM. THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON stars Brian Cox as 'Coach,' Jim Gaffigan as 'George Sikowski,' Chris Noth as 'Phil Romano,' Jason Patric as 'Tom Daley' and Kiefer Sutherland as 'James Daley.' Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher.

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON to Play Final Show 5/29
by Robert Diamond - May 23, 2011


The strictly limited engagement of THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON will play its final performance on Sunday, May 29th at 3:00PM. THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON stars Brian Cox as 'Coach,' Jim Gaffigan as 'George Sikowski,' Chris Noth as 'Phil Romano,' Jason Patric as 'Tom Daley' and Kiefer Sutherland as 'James Daley.' Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher.

CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON's Sutherland & Cox to Appear on ON STAGE, 4/16
by BWW News Desk - April 16, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON'S Brian Cox & Kiefer Sutherland will appear on NY1's 'On Stage' this weekend, beginning Saturday, April 16th on channel 1. It will air multiple times over the weekend on Saturday at 9:30AM & 7:30PM; Sunday at 9:30AM & 7:30PM; Monday at 9:30PM & 12:30AM.

CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON's Sutherland & Cox to Appear on ON STAGE, 4/16
by Nicole Rosky - April 15, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON'S Brian Cox & Kiefer Sutherland will appear on NY1's 'On Stage' this weekend, beginning Saturday, April 16th on channel 1. It will air multiple times over the weekend on Saturday at 9:30AM & 7:30PM; Sunday at 9:30AM & 7:30PM; Monday at 9:30PM & 12:30AM.

STAGE TUBE: THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON's Chris Noth Visits THE VIEW
by Nicole Rosky - April 12, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON's Chris Noth appeared on ABC's 'The View' this morning, April 12. THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON stars Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher.

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON's Chris Noth to Appear on THE VIEW Tomorrow
by Nicole Rosky - April 11, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON's Chris Noth will appear live on ABC's 'The View' tomorrow Tuesday, April 12th between 11-12:00PM. THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON stars Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher.

Review - Good People & That Championship Season
by Ben Peltz - March 27, 2011


If Bill Clinton really was, as Toni Morrison put it, America's first black president, then perhaps it's about time we crowned David Lindsay-Abaire as America's leading female playwright.  Since first gaining major attention in 1999 with Fuddy Meers, and including major productions such as Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and the Pulitzer-winning Rabbit Hole, Lindsay-Abaire (whose surname is a hyphenated combination of his and his wife's last names) has been continually filling stages with unique and interesting women as his leading characters.

STAGE TUBE: Sutherland, Gaffigan Visit THE VIEW
by Nicole Rosky - March 21, 2011


Jim Gaffigan & Kiefer Sutherland appeared live on ABC's 'The View' on Monday, March 20th. Check out the interview below!

STAGE TUBE: THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON on CBS Sunday Morning
by Nicole Rosky - March 21, 2011


The cast of THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON was featured on 'CBS Sunday Morning' to talk about this revival and take a trip with Jason Patric to Scranton, PA to visit his hometown and talk about his father, playwright Jason Miller.

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Featured On CBS Sunday Morning & The View
by BWW News Desk - March 20, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON will be featured on "CBS Sunday Morning" this Sunday, March 20th between 9-10:30AM.

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Featured On CBS Sunday Morning & The View
by Gabrielle Sierra - March 18, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON will be featured on "CBS Sunday Morning" this Sunday, March 20th between 9-10:30AM.

Brian Cox, Kiefer Sutherland Set for Leonard Lopate Show, 3/18
by Nicole Rosky - March 17, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON'S Brian Cox & Kiefer Sutherland will appear live on WNYC's 'The Leonard Lopate Show' tomorrow between 12:00-12:30PM on Channel 93.9FM and AM 820.

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Announces Student Rush Policies
by Nicole Rosky - March 16, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON has just announced their student rush policies for the production. Student rush tickets are available only at the box office, on the day of the performance, beginning when the box office opens for the day. Purchasers must present a valid student ID. Limit of two (2) student rush tickets per student ID. First-come, first-served. Subject to availability. Student Rush tickets are available for the Tuesday - Friday evening performances and Wednesday matinees only.

Jason Patric Calls Out Former Castmate Ashley Judd
by Nicole Rosky - March 14, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON's Jason Patric recently chatted with Entertainent Weekly about his Broadway roles of past and present, and he didn't have many kind words to say about his CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF co-star Ashley Judd. Patric claimed that Judd was, 'She's lazy, selfish and arrogant.'

BWW TV: Broadway Beat Celebrates Opening Night with THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
by Broadway Beat - March 7, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON officially opened on Broadway Sunday, March 6, starring Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth,Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher and plays at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45TH Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, May 29th, 2011. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the cast at the show's arrivals!

Photo Coverage: THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Arrivals
by Walter McBride - March 7, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON officially opened on Broadway Sunday, March 6, starring Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth,Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher and plays at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45TH Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, May 29th, 2011. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the cast at the show's arrivals!

Photo Coverage: THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Opening Night After Party
by Walter McBride - March 7, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON officially opened on Broadway Sunday, March 6, starring Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth,Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher and plays at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45TH Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, May 29th, 2011. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the cast at the show's after party!

Photo Coverage: THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Opening Night Curtain Call
by Walter McBride - March 7, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON officially opened on Broadway Sunday, March 6, starring Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth,Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher and plays at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45TH Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, May 29th, 2011. BroadwayWorld.com was there to capture the cast at the show's curtain call!

Broadway Review Roundup: THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON
by Robert Diamond - March 7, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON officially opened on Broadwa omn, March 6, starring Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth,Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher and plays at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45TH Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, May 29th, 2011.

THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON Opens on Broadway Today
by Lauren Wolman - March 6, 2011


THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON will officially open on Broadway today, March 6, starring Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland. Jason Miller's Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning play THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON is directed by Gregory Mosher and plays at the Bernard B Jacobs Theatre (242 West 45TH Street). This is a limited engagement through Sunday, May 29th, 2011.

That Championship Season FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of That Championship Season have there been?
That Championship Season has had 4 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 1972, Broadway which opened in 1972, Off-Broadway which opened in 1999 and Broadway which opened in 2011.

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