John Cameron Mitchell Takes the Stage in Broadway’s Oh, Mary!

John Cameron Mitchell Units Restricted Run in Broadway’s Oh, Mary!

The Hedwig and the Offended Inch creator will return to Broadway in Cole Escola’s hit comedy.

Bratty curls in a field? Broadway’s Oh, Mary! has discovered its subsequent new star in Hedwig and the Offended Inch author and authentic star John Cameron Mitchell, who will be part of the Cole Escola hit on the Lyceum Theatre for a 12-week restricted engagement February 3–April 26, 2026.

“Cole Escola and Sam Pinkleton are the wild horses that dragged me again to tug and I could not be happier!” says Mitchell in an announcement. “As essentially the most mature Mary but, my days are full of working the StairMaster™, mainlining Ozempic® and mastering my Good Dialogue©. ‘Line?!’ Thanks, Cole. Might I do you proud mangling your basic!” Mitchell is the creator of the musical Hedwig and the Offended Inch, which he starred in on movie and likewise on Broadway. He is a recipient of an honorary Tony Award.

“Welcoming John into this forged feels each scrumptious and one way or the other inevitable,” provides Tony-winning director Pinkleton. “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 may 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’s run will comply with an encore bow from Jinkx Monsoon, who’s herself set to succeed present star Jane Krakowski starting January 8 (Hannah Solow will star within the title position January 6-7). Supporting forged for Mitchell’s tenure is to be introduced.

Krakowski is at the moment supported by Cheyenne Jackson as Mary’s Trainer (by means of January 25, 2026), and John-Andrew Morrison as Mary’s Husband, Jenn Harris as Mary’s Chaperone, and Tony Macht as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant, all at the moment slated to proceed by means of February 1, 2026.

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Escola’s comedy facilities on Mary Todd Lincoln within the weeks main as much as the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Escola’s demented take (or as press notes put it, “by means of the lens of an fool”), Mary Todd turns into a madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic.

The piece premiered at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2024 in a run that was prolonged thrice. It then transferred to Broadway later that 12 months, the place it has been breaking box-office data on the Lyceum Theatre; it turned the primary present within the theatre’s 121-year historical past to gross greater than $1,000,000 in a single week.

The present earned two 2025 Tony Awards: Lead Actor in a Play for Escola (who departed the manufacturing in June) and Director of a Play for Sam Pinkleton.

The play’s understudies are Solow, Julian Manjerico, Sean Peter Forte, and Jackie Sanders.

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Oh, Mary‘s artistic workforce contains scenic designer dots, costume designer Holly Pierson, lighting designer Cha See, composer and co-sound designer Daniel Kluger, co-sound designer Drew Levy, wig designer Leah J. Loukas, and music arranger David Dabbon. Casting is by Henry Russell Bergstein. Bryan Bauer and Ryan Patrick Kane are manufacturing stage supervisor and assistant stage supervisor, respectively.

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