Play

The Audience

1 upcoming performance in New York

Peter Morgan’s *The Audience* stages the private, weekly conversations between Queen Elizabeth II and the prime ministers who cycle through her reign, using those meetings to track power as it shifts over decades. The play’s New York chapter arrived on Broadway in 2015, a reminder that American theater audiences remain invested in British constitutional ritual as a form of political storytelling. Now presented as a live event at Symphony Space, with featured performers including Ani DiFranco, Tony Trischka, Abby Jimenez, Annabelle Gurwitch, and Caro Claire Burke, it treats history less as pageant than as a record of quiet negotiations. One clear effect is how the format turns public eras into intimate scenes without needing spectacle.