Punch on Broadway Tickets

Get Punch tickets when they go on sale with New York Theatre Guide to see this muscular, propulsive show about one lethal blow and the lives that were changed after it. Punch plays on Broadway next season at the Pulitzer Prize-winning theatre Manhattan Theatre Club, which is known for such hits as Doubt and Proof. Coming to the company's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Olivier Award winner James Graham's strong but moving new play is based on the real-life story of a man who punched and killed a young man on a night out in Nottingham.

Experience Punch on Broadway to see this singular story based on the memoir Right From Wrong by Jacob Dunne. In that memoir, Dunne recounts how he killed a trainee paramedic, James Hodgkinson, as a teenager on a night out in Nottingham in 2011 through a single punch to the head. Epic, gripping, and deeply affecting, the play takes an unflinching look at violence and the grief that follows.

In Punch, Jacob is on a tear through Nottingham, drinking, doing drugs, and sleeping with women he picks up. Prone to violence, his bad habits get the best of him on one tragic night out where he punches a young man. He lands in jail, but can a meeting with the dead man's parents redirect his life?

An epic story intimately told, Punch won great acclaim in England. "Five stars for James Graham’s most moving work yet," The Times of London wrote. "If it sometimes feels as if James Graham is the one playwright regularly allowed to address big themes on big stages, Punch is a reminder of why he is so special."

After writing about Gareth Southgate’s transformation of the national football team in Dear England, Graham now turns his attention to one crime that shook a community. Tickets to Punch in New York will be available here soon.