Brief Encounter

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New Year's Resolution

Hannah Yelland of Brief Encounter Wants to Put It in Writing in 2011

New Year's Resolution

Brief Encounter’s Tristan Sturrock Vows to Keep His New York Love Affair Alive in 2011

Fresh Face

Brief Encounter’s Hannah Yelland on Tragic Heroines and True Love

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Exclusive! Catch the Backstage Magic of Broadway's Brief Encounter

News

Broadway's Brief Encounter Extends at Studio 54

Final Bow

Brief Encounter Ends

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An Affair to Remember at Brief Encounter's Opening Night

Photo Op

Lights, Camera, Action! Brief Encounter on Opening Night

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About Brief Encounter on Broadway

Previews: Sep 10, 2010 • Opening: Sep 28, 2010 • Closing: Jan 2, 2011

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Venue

Studio 54

254 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019

Hearing Assistance

Available upon request.

Wheelchair Access

Wheelchair access on the Orchestra level only.

Elevators and Escalators

This theater does not have elevators or escalators.

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Story

What Is the Story of Brief Encounter?
Brief Encounter is a sweeping love story, aptly described in its opening film credits as “approved for public exhibition to the incurably romantic.” Alec and Laura meet in a train station and fall madly in love with one another, albeit in a restrained, British stiff-upper-lip sort of way. They are both married, so although they are swept away by their love for one another, the rules of polite society at the time (1930s Britain) make their passion a forbidden one. This black and white melodrama is neatly folded into the show’s more colorful love stories: a romance between the mistress of the train station tearoom and a station master and the puppy love of the tearoom assistant and her highwaters-wearing boyfriend.

Reviews

"Using the tools of music hall, classic British pantomime and story-theater — plus a bit of trompe l’oeil technology, via film projections — this production lets its audiences see a familiar movie with virgin eyes and, yes, fall in love with it all over again."

The New York Times

Ben Brantley

"Brief Encounter is a giddily spinning zoetrope of interlocking illusions, an uninhibited fetish of Inhibition itself. More to the point, it’s about the thrill of watching someone else’s moral torment safely embalmed in celluloid — and doing so in a darkened theater, alongside row upon row of anonymous fellow voyeurs."

New York Magazine

Scott Brown