Broadway play celebrating Jaws’ 50th anniversary comes to The Lowry

A play celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the 1975 iconic blockbuster Jaws is coming to The Lowry early next year.

The Olivier award-nominated West End and Broadway production, The Shark Is Broken, will come to The Lowry in Salford on Tuesday February 4 until Saturday February 8 2025.

Co-written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon and inspired by Robert Shaw’s experience playing ‘Quint’ in Jaws, the play imagines what happened on board ‘The Orca’ when the cameras stopped rolling during the filming of Steven Spielberg’s epic movie.

Starring Ian Shaw (Warhorse, Common) as his father, Robert Shaw, the UK and Ireland tour will open at Oxford Playhouse on Thursday January 23 and will tour to a further 14 venues.

Casting for the roles of Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss are to be announced.

Following its critical and sell-out success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, The Shark Is Broken transferred to the West End in 2021 playing at the Ambassadors Theatre for a limited season where it enjoyed an extended run due to huge popular demand and an Olivier award nomination for Best Comedy Play.

In July 2023 the production transferred to Broadway for a 16-week run at the John Golden Theatre where it garnered fresh critical acclaim.

For the members presale tickets, click here.

Image credit: Photography by Helen Maybanks, Original West End Cast