American Psycho

Book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik. Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Directed by Rupert Goold.

A co-production with the Almeida Theatre in association with David Johnson and Jesse Singer for Act 4 Entertainment by special arrangement with Edward R. Pressman.

A new musical thriller

Living the high life in 1980s Manhattan, Patrick Bateman has it all – looks, money, style and status. He and his entourage buy the most expensive designer clothes, eat at the most exclusive restaurants and party at the hottest clubs. But privately, Patrick indulges in another kind of transgression. And people - including those closest to him - keep disappearing.

Rupert Goold directs this musical adaptation, from the composer of Spring Awakening, which casts Patrick Bateman centre stage as an anti-hero for our time.

Headlong, the Almeida Theatre and Act 4 Entertainment bring Bret Easton Ellis’s iconic novel to Broadway, its satirical commentary on capitalism resonating as strongly now as it did two decades ago.

A co-production with the Almeida Theatre in association with David Johnson and Jesse Singer for Act 4 Entertainment by special arrangement with Edward R. Pressman.

“ There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory ”
“ and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. ”