Adapted from Ken Kesey’s novel of the same name, the original production of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest ran on Broadway in 1963. The celebrated film version, starring Jack Nicolson, was released in 1975 and won five Academy Awards. Cuckoo’s Nest is the story of a mental hospital and its inhabitants. When brash new inmate Randle Patrick McMurphy arrives, the rigid program of the ward, headed by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, is thrown up for grabs.