After collapsing in a restaurant, cranky, unfulfilled composer, Gordon Schwinn is diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain condition, which sets him off on a wild, phantasmagorical ride through his own subconscious mind, while still in the confines of his hospital bed, in William Finn’s powerful and witty autobiographical musical, A New Brain.

Gordon’s lover, Roger, mother, Mimi , and best friend, Rhoda try to keep his mind at ease, even as he is being haunted and taunted by visions of his boss, a children’s television show host in a frog suit, the practically demonic Mr. Bungee , who attempts to exacerbate his greatest fear—that he will die without ever having accomplished a work of lasting worth.

Unexpectedly funny and soul-stirring, A New Brain is a complex meditation on the restorative powers of art and creation by one of Broadway’s cleverest and most heartfelt writers.