Percy Jackson has newly discovered powers he can’t control, monsters on his trail, and he is on a quest to find Zeus’s lightning bolt and prevent a war between the Greek gods. Normal is a myth when you’re a demigod. Based on the best-selling Disney-Hyperion novel by Rick Riordan, featuring live music, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is an action-packed theatrical adventure that will rock your world.

CLOSING MAY 6th, 2017

More than ten years since our favorite modern age demigod won us over, Percy Jackson is back in a deliciously dorky new musical. Playing at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, The Lighting Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is sure to win over the books’ young fans, the books’ grown-up fans, and anyone in between. As in Rick Riordan’s novels, Percy Jackson (Chris McCarrell) struggles. With school, with constant expulsion, with ADHD and dyslexia, with his mom’s smelly boyfriend – basically, he can’t catch a break. This holds true when his school takes a field trip to a museum, and his math teacher turns into a giant bird and attacks him. When she hears about the attack, Percy’s mom, Sally (Carrie Compere), and his best friend Grover (George Salazar) take him to Camp Half-Blood, a safe place for the half-god, half-mortal children of the Greek gods. On the way, the group is attacked by a minotaur, and despite Percy’s best efforts to save them, Sally dies before he can defeat the monster. Heartbroken at the loss of his mother, Percy finds himself stuck at Camp Half-Blood, where he learns that his father is none other than Poseidon, one of the “big three.” In yet another struggle to add to Percy’ …Read more