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☆ There’s a Bright Spot in New York Theater. It’s Not Where You Think.
  + stars: | 2024-04-11 | by ( Michael Paulson | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
At the same time, New York’s Off Broadway nonprofits, long essential seedbeds for many of the nation’s most acclaimed playwrights, are shedding staff, programming and even real estate. But there is an unexpected bright spot this season. Commercial Off Broadway, a small sector of New York’s theatrical economy and one that has for years been somewhere between difficult and dormant, is back in business. “Oh, Mary!,” a madcap comedy that imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a daffy alcoholic, is selling out nightly at a 295-seat theater in the West Village, and is likely to transfer to Broadway this summer. Eddie Izzard’s solo “Hamlet” did well enough at a 199-seat theater in Greenwich Village that it relocated to a 349-seat house in the East Village, and next is planning runs in Chicago and London.
Persons: Mary !, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eddie Izzard’s, ” Organizations: Broadway Locations: West, Greenwich, East, Chicago, London
☆ Mary Todd Lincoln, Thwarted Cabaret Star? That’s Cole Escola’s Take.
  + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Erik Piepenburg | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
It’s hard to pin down the moment in “Oh, Mary!,” a comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln, that will send Lincoln scholars and purists into apoplexy. It could be when the first lady disastrously auditions for a role in “Our American Cousin,” the play at which John Wilkes Booth would later shoot her husband on April 14, 1865. Or when the deeply closeted Lincoln is orally pleasured at his desk. “I’ve seen people at the box office who seem to think this is really a play about Abraham Lincoln, and I feel a little bad, but it’s also funny,” Cole Escola, the show’s writer and star, said in a recent phone interview. (The show opens on Thursday and continues through March 24 at Off Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theater.)
Persons: Mary !, Mary Todd Lincoln, ”, John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln, “ I’ve, Abraham Lincoln, it’s, ” Cole Escola, “, Jackée Harry, Harry, enchant Escola, Lucille Lortel Organizations: Lincoln, Stonewall Locations: “, enchant
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