Information about all of Brain d’Arcy James’ theatre credits.
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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. Les Waters directs an innovative reimagining of one of Sarah Ruhl’s most beloved plays, inspired by a classic myth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2013 (Broadway)
Role: Banquo (Original)
When three witches deliver some surprising prophecies, Macbeth hatches a plan to murder the king. Provoked by his wife and preoccupied with greed, Macbeth begins his tragic descent into madness.
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.
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.
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.
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. Based on the blockbuster movie and the book by William Steig.
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.
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.
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.
2005 (Off-Broadway)
Role: Reporter (Original)
A new play by Garth Wingfield about famed American aviator Charles Lindbergh – Flight follows Lindbergh during fourteen critical years in his life.
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.
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.
2001 (Off-Broadway)
Role: Unnamed (Original)
Conor McPherson’s The Good Thief is a monologue play that recounts the misfortunes of a petty Irish criminal whose conscience punishes him when he becomes involved in a bungled kidnap.
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. Based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 narrative poem.
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. Brian played the role of Eddie at some point during its run of March 1999 – April 2000.
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.
1996 (Off-Broadway)
Role: Cliff Roney/Reporter (Original)
With music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, and book by Tina Landau, the musical is 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.
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.
1993 (Broadway)
Role: Ensemble (Replaced Philip Lehl)
Twin English 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.
Brian d’Arcy James’ broadway debut.
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.
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