Curse of the Starving Class Revival
Ages: 13+
Closing: April 06, 2025Curse of the Starving Class - 2025 Off-Broadway History , Info & More
The Pershing Square Signature Center [The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre]
480 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036
Sam Shepard’s fiercely funny, OBIE award-winning play returns to the stage. With their family home on the verge of collapse and the creditors closing in, the Tate family white knuckles to their past, while scratching and clawing their way towards a better future. Told through a contemporary biting lens, this classic story dismantles the American dream in its look at a family fighting to stay alive.
Curse of the Starving Class - 2025 - Off-Broadway Cast
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Christian Slater Is Destroying the Stage on Broadway
8 / 10
The intensity of Shepard’s writing—which segues dazzlingly from brutal to whimsical to extravagantly operatic—is matched in director Scott Elliott’s impressive staging in one of Signature’s smallest spaces. You feel as if you’re being held hostage by what unfolds before you in this theater; the harm and dysfunction afflicting and being dished out by the Tates is the most vicious of vicious cycles, and dangerously, physically close, accentuating our discomfort.
This Curse of the Starving Class Doesn’t Have Much in Its Fridge
6 / 10
In this production, Jeff Croiter’s lighting focuses a spotlight on each actor as they get their big moment. Elliot may have been aiming for a feeling of immediacy with that choice, but double-underlining those speeches makes them each feel like more of an exercise. This may be a recurring problem with revivals of Shepard, as my colleague Sara Holdren noted with the last Curse go-round. Actors might love the cachet of trying to bull-ride a canonical work, but they’re not prepared for just how difficult a play like this is.
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Review Roundup: CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS At The New Group
by A.A. Cristi - February 25, 2025
by A.A. Cristi - February 25, 2025
Reviews are in for Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class at The New Group, starring David Anzuelo, Kyle Beltran, Calista Flockhart, Cooper Hoffman, Jeb Kreager, Stella Marcus and Christian Slater, directed by Scott Elliott, running now through April 6.
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS Extended at The New Group
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 19, 2025
by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 19, 2025
The New Group will present an additional week for Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class with David Anzuelo, Kyle Beltran, Calista Flockhart, Cooper Hoffman, Jeb Kreager, Stella Marcus and Christian Slater. Learn how to purchase tickets.
Video: Christian Slater Talks Working with Live Sheep in CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS
by Josh Sharpe - January 21, 2025
by Josh Sharpe - January 21, 2025
On a recent visit to Late Night with Seth Meyers, Christian Slater opened up about one of his unusual co-stars in the upcoming off-Broadway production of Curse of the Starving Class. Watch the interview now!
Photos: In Rehearsal for CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS Off-Broadway
by A.A. Cristi - January 9, 2025
by A.A. Cristi - January 9, 2025
The New Group will present Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class with David Anzuelo, Kyle Beltran, Calista Flockhart, Cooper Hoffman, Jeb Kreager, Stella Marcus and Christian Slater, directed by Scott Elliott. Check out photos from inside rehearsal.
CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS Starring Calista Flockhart, Christian Slater & More Sets Full Cast
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 12, 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - December 12, 2024
The New Group has revealed the complete cast for Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class, starring Calista Flockhart, Christian Slater and more. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
Curse of the Starving Class History
Other Productions of Curse of the Starving Class
| 1978 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1985 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 1997 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
| 2019 | Off-Broadway |
Signature Theatre Off-Broadway Revival Off-Broadway |
| 2025 | Off-Broadway |
The New Group Off-Broadway Revival Off-Broadway |
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