From award-winning screenwriter and playwright Steve Martin (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Roxanne) and chart-topping singer-songwriter Edie Brickell comes a world premiere American musical inspired by their Grammy Award-winning collaboration “Love Has Come For You.” Bright Star features 25 new songs and tells a beguiling tale that unfolds in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina between 1923 and 1945. Billy Cane, a young soldier just home from World War II, meets Alice Murphy, the brilliant editor of a southern literary journal. Together they discover a powerful secret that alters their lives. Tony Award-winning director Walter Bobbie (Broadway’s Chicago) makes his Globe debut with this entertaining musical of enduring love, family ties, and the light of forgiveness that shines from a bright star.
- Edie Brickell
- Philip Barry
- Steve Martin
Authors
Tony Awards and Nominations for BRIGHT STAR
| Year | Category | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Best Musical |
SUBMIT UPDATES
Videos
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Michael Feinstein in Because of You: My Tribute to Tony Bennett featuring the Carnegie Hall Ensemble
Enlow Recital Hall (4/25 - 4/25) | |
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2025 New Jersey One-Act Festival
duCret Center of Art (4/4 - 4/6) | |
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Of Mice and Men
Barn Theatre (3/14 - 3/30)
PHOTOS
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Comedy Night
Surflight Theatre (7/21 - 7/21) | |
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Madcapped Mysteries
Broadway Comedy Club (11/30 - 12/31) | |
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Voctave
Enlow Recital Hall (4/11 - 4/11) | |
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens in Concert
New Jersey Performing Arts Center (4/12 - 4/12) | |
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Velveteen Rabbit
Pushcart Players (11/4 - 6/30) | |
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A Bronx Tale
Ovation Hall at Ocean Casino Resort (4/11 - 4/11) | |
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Carolyn Dorfman Dance - LIVE LOVE LAUGH
Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum (4/6 - 4/6) | |
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