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Adrien Brody, Tessa Thompson to Make Broadway Debuts in The Fear of 13 as Previews Start March 19

The limited-run production uses Nick Yarris’s wrongful-conviction story as a platform in collaboration with the Innocence Project.

Overview

  • Previews begin March 19 at the James Earl Jones Theatre, with opening night set for April 15 and a limited 16-week engagement.
  • Brody portrays Nick Yarris, who spent 22 years on death row before DNA evidence cleared him in 2004, while Thompson plays Jackie, a prison visitor.
  • The show partners with the Innocence Project, the group that helped secure Yarris’s exoneration and reports more than 250 exonerations, over 4,000 years freed, and 250 policy reforms.
  • Tony Award winner David Cromer directs a new stage adaptation by Lindsey Ferrentino, drawn from Yarris’s first-person account, memoir, and the 2015 documentary by David Sington.
  • Brody reprises a role he played in 2024 at London’s Donmar Warehouse and says the Broadway debut fulfills a goal dating back to his teen years in theater.