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New York Post
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Get tickets for Tom Hanks off-Broadway debut in ‘This World of Tomorrow'
Vivid Seats is the New York Post's official ticketing partner. We may receive revenue from this partnership for sharing this content and/or when you make a purchase. Featured pricing is subject to change. Life is like a box of chocolates when you're a Tom Hanks fan. One year, the famed actor is starring in a movie or two; the next, he's writing a book. In 2025, 'America's Dad' is going in a completely different direction and top-lining the off-Broadway show 'This World of Tomorrow' at New York City's 500-seat Griffin Theater at The Shed for eight weeks from Oct. 30 through Dec. 21. Advertisement Yes, when you follow THanks' career, you never know what you're going to get. 'This World of Tomorrow' — which Hanks also wrote, based on his own short stories — begins at the end of the 21st century. On a quest for true love, sorrowful scientist Bert Allenberry (Hanks) travels back in time over and over again to one special day at the 1939 New York World's Fair in Queens. 'To explore the themes of love and yearning, and the struggles of Today as we carry with us the eternal memories of the Past, in such a place as The Shed, strikes me as a one-of-a-kind experience not unlike the World's Fair of 1939,' Hanks said in a statement. Tony Award-winner Kenny Leon directs; the rest of the cast and creative team will be announced at a later date. Advertisement If you want to be there, tickets are available for all 55 'This World of Tomorrow' shows. At the time of publication, the lowest price we could find on tickets for any one show was $300 including fees on Vivid Seats. Other shows have tickets starting anywhere from $346 to $691 including fees. Want to see Hanks in his first theatrical performance since 2013's 'Lucky Guy' (which just so happened to be about the late New York Post reporter Mike McAlary)? Advertisement For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about Tom Hanks' 'This World of Tomorrow' below. 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'This World of Tomorrow' ticket prices 2025 A complete calendar including all 'This World of Tomorrow' dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found here: October 2025 'This World of Tomorrow' October dates Ticket prices start at Thursday, Oct. 30 7 p.m. $651 (including fees) Friday, Oct. 31 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) November 2025 Advertisement 'This World of Tomorrow' November dates Ticket prices start at Saturday, Nov. 1 7 p.m. $371 (including fees) Sunday, Nov. 2 1 p.m. $495 (including fees) Wednesday, Nov. 5 1 p.m. $691 (including fees) Wednesday, Nov. 5 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Thursday, Nov. 6 7 p.m. $440 (including fees) Friday, Nov. 7 7 p.m. $564 (including fees) Saturday, Nov. 8 1 p.m. $619 (including fees) Saturday, Nov. 8 7 p.m. $371 (including fees) Sunday, Nov. 9 1 p.m. $691 (including fees) Tuesday, Nov. 11 7 p.m. $495 (including fees) Wednesday, Nov. 12 1 p.m. $691 (including fees) Wednesday, Nov. 12 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Thursday, Nov. 13 7 p.m. $371 (including fees) Friday, Nov. 14 7 p.m. $425 (including fees) Saturday, Nov. 15 1 p.m. $691 (including fees) Saturday, Nov. 15 7 p.m. $403 (including fees) Sunday, Nov. 16 1 p.m. $691 (including fees) Wednesday, Nov. 19 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Thursday, Nov. 20 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Friday, Nov. 21 7 p.m. $598 (including fees) Saturday, Nov. 22 1 p.m. $524 (including fees) Saturday, Nov. 22 7 p.m. $346 (including fees) Sunday, Nov. 23 1 p.m. $691 (including fees) Tuesday, Nov. 25 7 p.m. $474 (including fees) Wednesday, Nov. 26 1 p.m. $691 (including fees) Friday, Nov. 28 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Saturday, Nov. 29 1 p.m. $636 (including fees) Saturday, Nov. 29 7 p.m. $300 (including fees) Sunday, Nov. 30 1 p.m. $461 (including fees) December 2025 'This World of Tomorrow' December dates Ticket prices start at Tuesday, Dec. 2 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Wednesday, Dec. 3 1 p.m. $512 (including fees) Wednesday, Dec. 3 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Thursday, Dec. 4 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Friday, Dec. 5 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Saturday, Dec. 6 1 p.m. $404 (including fees) Saturday, Dec. 6 7 p.m. $567 (including fees) Sunday, Dec. 7 1 p.m. $615 (including fees) Tuesday, Dec. 9 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Wednesday, Dec. 10 1 p.m. $691 (including fees) Wednesday, Dec. 10 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Thursday, Dec. 11 7 p.m. $622 (including fees) Friday, Dec. 12 7 p.m. $517 (including fees) Saturday, Dec. 13 1 p.m. $575 (including fees) Saturday, Dec. 13 7 p.m. $436 (including fees) Sunday, Dec. 14 1 p.m. $590 (including fees) Tuesday, Dec. 16 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Wednesday, Dec. 17 1 p.m. $691 (including fees) Wednesday, Dec. 17 7 p.m. $691 (including fees) Thursday, Dec. 18 7 p.m. $461 (including fees) Friday, Dec. 19 7 p.m. $450 (including fees) Saturday, Dec. 20 1 p.m. $576 (including fees) Saturday, Dec. 20 7 p.m. $495 (including fees) Sunday, Dec. 21 1 p.m. $623 (including fees) (Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and, if it isn't noted, will include additional fees at checkout.) Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand. They offer a 100% buyer guarantee that states your transaction will be safe and secure and your tickets will be delivered prior to the event. Still curious about Vivid Seats? You can find an article from their team about why the company is legit here. About 'This World of Tomorrow' The show, co-written with James Glassman — who has adapted novels and stories by Twain, Fitzgerald, Poe and more — is based on short stories written by Hanks. Although press releases do not indicate more than that, we found that Hanks' only published collection of short stories, 2017's 'Uncommon Type,' features 'The Past Is Important to Us' according to Bookrags. Advertisement In this tale, 'sixty-year-old billionaire Bert Allenberry (sound familiar?) spends $6 million dollars per 22-hour vacation for trips back in time to the 1939 World's Fair' because he 'is taken by a young woman named Carmen who was at the fair that day.' If you'd like to read the story ahead of time, you can find 'Uncommon Type' here. Big stars on and off Broadway There's never a shortage of star power in midtown Manhattan (and downtown). If you're hoping to see a film or TV icon live onstage, here are just five shows featuring household names currently running on The Great White Way and elsewhere in the Big Apple. Advertisement • Leslie Odom Jr. in 'Hamilton' • Keanu Reeves in 'Waiting for Godot' • Neil Patrick Harris in 'Art' • John Krasinski in 'Angry Alan' Advertisement • Tom Felton in 'Harry Potter' Want to see what else is out there? Take a look at our list of all the 2025 Tony nominees to find the show for you. This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live events reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour announcements from your favorite musical artists and comedians, as well as Broadway openings, sporting events and more live shows – and finds great ticket prices online. Since he started his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen concert and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to name a few. Please note that deals can expire, and all prices are subject to change
Daily Mirror
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Tom Hanks' 'best performance of his career' now ready to watch on BBC iPlayer
A Tom Hanks film with "relentless tension" has been released on BBC iPlayer, more than a decade after it made its global debut. Tom Hanks delivers "one of the best performances of his career" in a "relentlessly intense" thriller now available on BBC iPlayer. From Big and Castaway to Saving Private Ryan and Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks is a Hollywood icon with a career spanning over four decades. However, it was in October 2013 that Hanks made a triumphant return to the silver screen in the action-packed thriller Captain Phillips. Based on true events, Captain Phillips tells the story of the 2009 hijacking of the US cargo ship Maersk Alabama by Somali pirates, with Hanks portraying the eponymous captain. Now, 12 years after its initial release, the Tom Hanks thriller can be watched for free. Captain Phillips was added to BBC iPlayer on Saturday, July 26, allowing fans to enjoy the film at their leisure without needing a subscription. All that's needed to access the streaming service's content is a registered email address. The biographical drama received numerous award nominations, and actor Barkhad Abdi clinched the 2014 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Captain Phillips also resonated with audiences, earning an impressive 93% rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Fans haven't been able to help themselves from praising for the gripping drama in the comments section. One viewer wrote: "A truly incredible suspense movie that'll have you on the edge of your seat. "From the moment the pirates arrive, it's tension filled until the very end. Tom Hanks' performance here is stellar." Another viewer concurred: "Captain Phillips is a movie of relentless tension but it's that final scene that makes it a great movie. "Tom Hanks delivers an outstanding performance throughout the running time but it's the finale that catapults him into a new acting league." Meanwhile, a third simply declared: "Tom Hanks puts on one of the best performances of his career in Captain Phillips.." Captain Phillips can be streamed on BBC iPlayer.
The Herald Scotland
13-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Not just any old schmaltz fest as Tom Hanks is at his US Everyman best
*** TIME was when a Saturday night movie starring Tom Hanks would have involved an expedition to the cinema. Now you can see the double Oscar-winner for free, at home, in a film on general release not that long ago (as long as you don't mind the ads). Old Hollywood would think the business had lost its collective mind. A Man Called Otto began life as a Swedish novel and film before this US remake by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, World War Z). Tom Hanks plays a grumpy widower who thinks most of the world are idiots and a large proportion of them live in his street. Without Otto doing his morning 'rounds' and telling people off for poor parking and other crimes, it would be anarchy out there. So far, so Victor Meldrew. What are the odds, do you reckon, of Otto staying a grouch for long, maybe even doubling down on his crankiness? Perhaps in another movie universe, but on this planet, with this actor, forget it. Sure enough, a young family moves into the cul-de-sac and chips away at Otto's Easter Island exterior. Before you know it, he's doing good deeds left, right and centre. Among A-listers, what's left of them, only Hanks could get away with such an obvious schmaltz fest as A Man Called Otto. Tom Cruise would only attempt it if snow shovelling could be turned into a life-or-death stunt. Harrison Ford comes across as authentically grumpy, so that wouldn't be much fun. Clint Eastwood probably came closest in Gran Torino, though that too was a touch spiky for some. But Hanks, the heir to Jimmy Stewart as a paragon of decency? Perfect. Read more That said, credit to the Forrest Gump and Philadelphia star for sticking with the Swedish original and going to some very bleak places with the grief-stricken Otto. Otto, we learn from (too many) flashbacks is another in a long line of everyday American heroes to feature on the Hanks cv, but this one is interesting because he is ordinary to the point of almost being dull. What raises him aobve the norm is love, pure and simple. Hanks's son Truman does a fine job of playing the young Otto. It is keeping it in the family, but this is far preferable to the startling moment when Hanks appears as his younger self, complete with weird CGI face and unfeasibly dark hair. Besides staying true to the tone of the Swedish original, Hanks keeps a lid on the schmaltz by giving Otto a convincingly bad temper. Even though the targets are obvious - property developers trying to buy up the neighbourhood, etc - Hanks lets rip in spectacular fashion. As for the business model behind A Man Called Otto, it more than paid its way, being made for $50 million and grossing more than double that worldwide in cinemas. Nice guys like Hanks never finish last. Showing again Tuesday at 9pm on 4seven, and available to stream for 30 days for free on 4.
San Francisco Chronicle
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Tom Hanks's unhinged son jokes that playing a ‘media liability' in Netflix hit was a stretch
Chet Hanks is in on the joke — and this time, he's turning it into career momentum. The actor and musician, long known for courting controversy, is now drawing praise for his performance in 'Running Point,' the Mindy Kaling-produced Netflix comedy. Hanks, son of Hollywood royalty Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, plays Travis Bugg, a tattooed, attention-seeking basketball star and wannabe rapper who becomes a public relations headache for his team. It's a role that winks knowingly at Hanks' tabloid-fueled past. 'When I first got the audition, it said he's tatted up. He's a wannabe rapper, and he's just like a complete media liability,' Hanks told People in an interview published Thursday, July 10. 'I said, 'I have no idea how I'm going to pull this off. I'm going to have to really get in character, maybe do a full method, Daniel Day Lewis, because obviously I'm nothing like that.'' The actor, who years ago attempted to launch a real-life rap career as Chet Haze, insists the casting was a stretch — but his delivery suggests a knowing smile. 'Hopefully I did it justice,' he added. The role debuted in tandem with the success of 'Leaving Hollywood,' a single from his country duo Something Out West. The group recently released an EP by the same name. 'It doesn't surprise me,' Hanks said. 'That's how God works.' Sober for more than three years, Hanks credits his bandmate Drew Arthur — also in recovery — for helping keep him grounded. 'You don't want to let yourself down,' Hanks said. 'You don't want to let your buddy down.'
Miami Herald
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Fans Crown Legendary Actor ‘Top 5 Dead or Alive' as He Celebrates 69th Birthday
Tom Hanks celebrates his 69th spin around the sun on Wednesday, July 9, 2025-and fans are wasting no time marking the occasion by honoring the legendary talent's longevity in the industry. The Hollywood actor was born on July 9, 1956, in Concord, Calif., cementing himself as a mainstay in films since his first role back in the 1980s. Hanks has since starred in over 75 movies, with some of the most iconic being Forrest Gump (1994), Cast Away (2000), The Green Mile (1999), Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and Disney's Toy Story series-as the recognizable voice of Woody-to name just a few. And he's still going, with his latest flick,The Phoenician Scheme, having released just weeks ago on May 30. On X (formerly Twitter) fans poured in to celebrate the enduring star for his birthday. "Happy Birthday to one of the best actors in Hollywood," one declared, while another boldly crowned him "Top 5 dead or alive." "Happy birthday to my favorite. Thank you for the movies, for sparking my love for cinema!" a third gushed, showing appreciation for Hanks' longstanding catalog, as another insisted he has "So. Many. Bangers. Especially. Green. Mile." Celebratory comments continued to roll in, like some that read, "Happy birthday to this legend," "Happy birthday tom you are the very best a legend in his own time," "One of my favourites. Truly one of the most amazing actors on this planet. Happy birthday to Tom Hanks!" and "literally, he only did masterpieces," with yet another dubbing Hanks "My favourite actor." Someone else recommended, "If u have not seen^ a man called otto ^ u r mising on one of the best movies made with tom hanks in it !!" Next: Film Icons' Rarely-Seen Twins Step Into the Spotlight for Stunning Public Appearance With Mom & Dad Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
