The Last Five Years

Jason Robert Brown’s Drama Desk Award–winning musical, The Last Five Years, has captivated audiences around the world. Translated into multiple languages and named one of TIME Magazine’s Ten Best Shows of 2001, the show’s enduring popularity led to an Off-Broadway revival at Second Stage in 2013. A film adaptation followed in 2014, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan.

An emotionally powerful and deeply intimate musical, The Last Five Years tells the story of two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years. The show’s inventive structure unfolds from two perspectives: Cathy tells her story in reverse, beginning at the end of the relationship, while Jamie’s journey moves forward in time. Their paths intersect only once—at their wedding, the midpoint of the show.