After a celebrated Off-Broadway run, Love Quirks: A New Musical lands in London for its long
awaited premiere this autumn. Featuring neurotic, poignant songs and deeply relatable
characters, Love Quirks holds up a mirror to the awkward, honest and sometimes beautiful
emotional chaos of adulthood.
Produced by Love Quirks Limited and General Managed by JAS Theatricals, the show is fifteen
years in the making, which began as a song cycle before evolving into a fully-fledged musical.
Four broken hearts must face the past and look to the future in a story filled with laughter,
pathos, sexual tension—and those inconvenient quirks that make love so unpredictable.
With an award-winning script from Mark Childers (The Kid From Brooklyn, USA Tour 2007), who
won the 2021 Off-Broadway BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Book of a Musical for Love
Quirks, and a touching score by Seth Bisen-Hersh (The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, ATA Theatre
2024), this heartwarming and hilariously honest musical explores the complicated, messy and
painfully relatable landscape of modern love and friendship.
Seth Bisen-Hersh, composer and lyricist, comments, Love Quirks is a labour of love. It began as a
song cycle of my quirky cabaret love songs in 2010, then became a full-fledged musical. It took a
decade to get the show off-Broadway, only to be disrupted by a global pandemic. 27 months
later, the show triumphantly opened off-Broadway to acclaim! In adapting the show for British
audiences, we are falling in love with the piece again, and revelling in the universality of what
love can be.
Bringing this unique story to life is an acclaimed creative team. Director Cecilie Fray is an Offie
nominated theatre and film director whose recent credits include Moulin Rouge! The Musical
(Assistant Director, West End), Operation Epsilon (Associate Director), and Girlhood (Director).
Director Cecilie Fray comments, I’m so delighted to be directing the British adaptation of Love
Quirks to an off-west end stage. This version is London centric, reflecting the treacherous world
of dating within a group of four roommates. Set in the early 2010s Love Quirks will sprinkle
audiences with nostalgia of the previous decade. Seth’s beautiful score guides us through the
characters’ inner turmoil and Mark’s fast-paced book and staging, guide us through as they
figure out how their ‘love quirks’ can bring them together.
Love Quirks: A New Musical
Thursday 18th September – Sunday 12th October 2025
The Other Palace Studio, 12 Palace Street, London SW1E 5JA
https://theotherpalace.co.uk/love-quirks-a-new-musical/
Previews: £22.50
Main Run: £25 – £27.50
120 minutes (including an interval)
13+
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