Theatre

Information about all of Brain d’Arcy James’ theatre credits.

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Anna Christie

2025 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Chris Christopherson

Anna Christie is the story of a former prostitute who falls in love, but runs into difficulty in turning her life around.

Eurydice

2025 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Father (Original)

In life, Eurydice loves books…and a great musician. One of the few heroines who dies twice, she falls to the underworld on her wedding day. In death, she reunites with her father and remembers her life again

Days of Wine and Roses

2023 (Off-Broadway)
2024 (Broadway)

Role: Joe Clay (Original)

A searing musical about a couple falling in love in 1950s New York and struggling against themselves and addiction to rebuild a family.

Into the Woods

2022 (Broadway)

Role: The Baker (Original)

Stephen Sondheim’s most popular musical turns the world of fairy tales topsy-turvy, reminding us that granted wishes often bring complications.

The Ferryman

2019 (Broadway)

Role: Quinn Carney (Replaced Paddy Considine)

Rural Derry, 1981. The Carney farmhouse is a hive of activity getting ready for the harvest. A traditional day of hard work, feasting and celebrations lie ahead. This year they will be interrupted by a visitor.

Hamilton

2015 (Off-Broadway)
2017 (Broadway)

Role: King George III
2015 – Original
2017 – Replaced Taran Killam

A revolutionary story of passion, unstoppable ambition, and the dawn of a new nation – the epic saga that follows the rise of Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton.

Something Rotten!

2015 (Broadway)

Role: Nick Bottom (Original)

Not content to let William Shakespeare get all the attention, the conniving but clueless Bottom brothers hatch a plan to cook up the next big stage hit.

Macbeth

2013 (Broadway)

Role: Banquo (Original)

Provoked by his wife and preoccupied with greed, Macbeth begins his tragic descent into madness.

Giant

2012 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Jordan 'Bick' Benedict (Original)

Based on the 1952 Edna Ferber novel, the story follows a ranch family in Texas over 30 years, and the effect of the oil boom.

Next to Normal

2008 (Off-Broadway)
2010 (Broadway)

Role: Dan Goodman
2008 – Original
2010 – Replaced J. Robert Spencer

In this contemporary musical and winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a suburban household copes with crisis and the unpredictability of a mother’s worsening bipolar disorder.

Time Stands Still

2010 (Broadway)

Role: James Dodd (Original)

Sidelined by a serious injury while covering the Iraq war, photojournalist Sarah Goodwin questions her personal and professional lives and her place in the world.

Shrek The Musical

2008 (Broadway)

Role: Shrek (Original)

A benign green ogre and his sidekick Donkey save the land from an evil lord and rescue a lovely princess from a terrible fate.

Port Authority

2008 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Dermot (Original)

The poetry of ordinary life unfolds onstage as Conor McPherson tells the tale of three generations of loss, learning and fleeting love in Ireland.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

2006 (Broadway)

Role: Freddy Benson (Replaced Norbert Leo Butz)

Composer-lyricist David Yazbek and librettist Jeffrey Lane adapt the 1988 film about two conmen — one elegant and one slovenly — who scheme to bilk rich women out of their money on the French Riviera.

The Lieutenant of Inishmore

2006 (Off-Broadway & Broadway)

Role: Brendan (Original)

A black comedy by Martin McDonagh, in which the ‘mad’ leader of an Irish National Liberation Army splinter group discovers that his cat has been killed.

Flight

2005 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Reporter (Original)

A play by Garth Wingfield about famed American aviator Charles Lindbergh – Flight follows Lindbergh during fourteen critical years in his life.

The Apple Tree

2006 (Broadway)

Role: Multiple roles (Original)

Three one-act musicals about men, women and temptation, based on stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stockton and Jules Feiffer.

Sweet Smell of Success

2002 (Broadway)

Role: Sidney Falco (Original)

Based on the 1957 movie, the show tells the story of a powerful newspaper columnist named J. J. Hunsecker who uses his connections to ruin his sister’s relationship with a man he deems inappropriate.

The Good Thief

2001 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Nameless thug (Original)

A monologue play that recounts the misfortunes of a petty Irish criminal.

The Wild Party

2000 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Burrs (Original)

Queenie and her lover Burrs live in a decadent style. At one of their parties, with eccentric and egocentric friends, more tumultuous goings-on than planned occur.

Ancestral Voices

1999 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Eddie

Set in Buffalo in the 1940s, this bittersweet story, perceived through the eyes of Eddie, is about a family turned inside out by divorce.

Titanic

1997 (Broadway)

Role: Frederick Barrett (Original)

Epic and majestic, with moments of heartbreaking intimacy – the musical examines the causes, the conditions and the characters involved in this ever-fascinating drama.

Floyd Collins

1996 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Cliff Roney/Reporter (Original)

Based on the true story of cave explorer Floyd Collins who became trapped in the winter of 1925 in what is now known as Mammoth Cave National Park.

Public Enemy

1994 (Off-Broadway)

Role: Davey Boyd (Original)

Crime drama and cautionary tale, by Kenneth Branagh, looking at the allure of cinematic violence for youth trapped in the grim banality of real life.

Carousel

1994 (Broadway)

Role: Captain, Hudson Livermore, Principal (Original)

Brash carousel barker Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan, a quiet girl who works in the mill, fall in love, marry, and have a stormy relationship that leads to tragedy.

Blood Brothers

1993 (Broadway)

Role: Ensemble (Replaced Philip Lehl)

Twin brothers are separated at birth, with one raised in wealth and the other in poverty, and grow to be friends and then bitter enemies without knowing their blood connection.

Other

Irving Berlin's White Christmas

2004 (Regional), 2005 & 2007 (Boston)

Bob Wallace

White Christmas follows two WWII veterans who team up as a song-and-dance duo. They join two sisters to save a failing Vermont inn, owned by their former commanding officer, with a festive Christmas show.

National Tours:

LES MISERABLES

Regional Tours:

LEND ME A TENOR (‘Bellhop’)
HAIR (‘Claude’)
DO BLACK PATENT LEATHER SHOES…? (‘Eddie Ryan”)
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (‘Eugene’)