About the Show

Fashion, music, and drama collide in a bold new play celebrating Alexander McQueen.

House of McQueen is a new Off-Broadway production tracing the life and legacy of visionary fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Framed through his own perspective, the piece blends storytelling with spectacle, unfolding as a hybrid of fashion show, stage play, and rock concert.

The production features a book by Darrah Cloud, direction by Sam Helfrich, and creative direction by McQueen’s nephew, Gary James McQueen. Aligning with New York Fashion Week, House of McQueen begins performances on September 9 at The Mansion at Hudson Yards.

Critic Reviews (8)

"House of McQueen is mostly a house of cards."
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"The house might have been built for him, but Alexander McQueen is not at home."
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"It gets the job done, but one wonders if a visionary like McQueen, who knew how to make his audience stew in discomfort, deserves something bolder."
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"Unfortunately, despite the first-class production, House of McQueen never quite comes to dramatic life."
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"pieced together with bespoke extravagance.. but mostly feels like a missed opportunity"
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Luke Newton is awesome as the maverick gay British fashion designer in this uneven fantasia.
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A man’s life without his life’s work.
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Darrah Cloud’s fever dream of a script, which is made up short scenes that jump around in time and place, is a crazy quilt of incomprehensibility that seems to lift its limited plot points from Wikipedia.
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