Name-calling, bullying, cliques, and cafeteria caste systems have always been part of teen life—and Heathers doesn’t flinch, nor does it apologize. And no trigger warnings in the pre-show announcement either. Instead, as the audience and characters experience the two-hours and twenty minutes of laughter in the darkest corners of adolescence, Veronica’s journey reminds us that acceptance isn’t about being popular—it’s about being seen, being kind. And in a world of curated identities and online validation, that’s a message that lands. If the screaming teens in the audience are any sign, Heathers is still speaking loud and clear.
Having lost the courage of its own outrageousness, ‘Heathers the Musical’ feels too toothless for the Trump era, even as it maintains a level of tastelessness that I might call amoral, if that didn’t make me sound too much like a ‘Reefer Madness’-era scold. Let’s just say the show feels too tonally jarring and too calculated for me to sign up for membership in the Corn Nuts.
| 2014 | Off-Broadway |
Original Off-Broadway Production Off-Broadway |
| 2018 | West End |
Original London Production West End |
| 2018 | West End |
London Transfer Production at Theatre Royal Haymarket West End |
| 2021 | West End |
West End |
| 2022 | West End |
London Production West End |
| 2025 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
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