Tony and Obie Award-winning actor, author and director John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Indignant Inch) will return to Broadway in Cole Escola‘s hit play Oh, Mary! for a restricted 12-week engagement this winter, the present’s producers introduced right this moment. He’ll play – who else? – Mary Todd Lincoln, the position originated by the playwright.
Mitchell’s will start performances on the Lyceum Theatre on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, performing within the position via April 26, 2026.
“Cole Escola and [director] Sam Pinkleton are the wild horses that dragged me again to tug and I couldn’t be happier!” mentioned Mitchell in a press release. “As essentially the most mature Mary but, my days are crammed with working the StairMaster™, mainlining Ozempic® and mastering my Good Dialogue©. ‘Line?!’ Thanks, Cole, could I do you proud mangling your basic!”
Mentioned the Tony-winning Pinkleton, “Welcoming John into this solid feels each scrumptious and one way or the other inevitable. So many people within the Oh, Mary! Universe, myself very a lot included, wouldn’t be the place we’re with out John’s work, which reshaped what reside efficiency might feel and appear like for generations of tender weirdos. He’s a queer trailblazer, cultural icon, sensible actor — and, most significantly for his new position, an enormous fool.”
Mitchell would be the newest to don the famously bratty curly wig, from the Tony-winning playwright to Jane Krakowski, the present Mary Todd Lincoln via January 4. Others who’ve performed the position on Broadway embrace Tituss Burgess, Betty Gilpin, Hannah Solow, and Jinkx Monsoon, who returns to the present for an encore engagement on January 8, 2026. Solow will play the title position on January 6 and seven.
Oh, Mary! opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024, on the Lyceum, the place it grew to become the primary present within the theater’s 121-year historical past to gross greater than $1,000,000 in a single week. Oh, Mary! has since damaged its personal field workplace file twelve occasions, and have become the primary present of the 2024-25 Broadway season to recoup its funding.
Oh, Mary! is produced on Broadway by Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia with Bob Boyett, The Council, Jean Doumanian Productions, Nicole Eisenberg, Jay Marcus & George Strus, Irony Level, Richard Batchelder/Bradley Reynolds, Tyler Mount/Tommy Doyle, Nelson & Tao, Palomares & Rosenberg, and ShowTown Productions.
Mitchell co-wrote (with Stephen Trask) and was the unique star of the 1998 rock musical Hedwig and the Indignant Inch, which was made into a movie in 2001. Different Broadway performing credit embrace the unique casts of The Secret Backyard, Six Levels of Separation and Huge River. Off Broadway credit embrace Larry Kramer’s The Future of Me and Lincoln Middle’s Good day Once more.
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