Producers Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia, together with Broadway at The Nationwide introduced at present that Tony Award winner J. Harrison Ghee will star as “Mary Todd Lincoln” when Oh, Mary! involves Washington, DC for a strictly restricted engagement from February 9-21, 2027 at The Nationwide Theatre. Extra casting might be introduced within the coming months.
“I’ve seen Oh, Mary! thrice and relished the great thing about this present — how totally different folks shine so brightly in these roles, and but you see the affect of Cole all around the manufacturing. The chance to get a crack at Mary Todd Lincoln is past a dream come true,” mentioned J. Harrison Ghee. “All of us possess a lot inside us. If we give up to circumstances, we’ll discover the likelihood for enlargement past perception. We’re going to set the highway on hearth with this electrifyingly hilarious play.”
Written by Tony and Olivier Award winner Cole Escola and directed by Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary! opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024, and continues to play on the Lyceum Theatre, the place it turned 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 document 13 occasions and have become the primary present of the 2024-25 Broadway season to recoup its funding. Oh, Mary! opened to rave opinions in London’s West Finish on December 18, 2025, and received the 2026 Olivier Award for Finest New Leisure or Comedy Play.
Oh, Mary! is a darkish comedy a couple of depressing, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln within the weeks main as much as Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited craving, alcoholism, and suppressed wishes abound on this one-act play that lastly examines the forgotten life and goals of Mrs. Lincoln via the lens of an fool (playwright Cole Escola).
The complete inventive crew consists of dots (Scenic Designer), Holly Pierson (Costume Designer), Cha See (Lighting Designer), Daniel Kluger (Sound Design and Authentic Music), Drew Levy (Sound Designer), Leah J. Loukas (Wig Designer), Addison Heeren (Props Supervision), and David Dabbon (Musical Preparations). Casting by Henry Russell Bergstein, CSA.
Oh, Mary! is produced 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 Miller & Rosenberg, and ShowTown Productions.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT OH, MARY!
“You’ll be shedding your thoughts with pleasure.” —The New York Instances, Critic’s Choose
“The funniest present on Broadway.” —New York Submit
“★★★★★ The funniest play in years. Oh, Mary! is dizzyingly, breathtakingly humorous, the type of humorous that ambushes your physique into uncontained laughter.” —Time Out New York
“A singular work of virtuoso comedy that’s as ingenious and shrewd as it’s completely silly.” —The Every day Beast
“There’s humorous, there’s very humorous, after which there’s Oh, Mary!” —Deadline
“80 minutes of just about uninterrupted laughter. A piece of genius.” —The Hollywood Reporter
“Unquestionably the funniest, gayest, campiest play Broadway has seen in years.” —Selection
“Oh, Mary!’s sharp writing, breakneck tempo, and campy performances preserve the theater in hysterics till the curtain falls.” —Queerty
Oh, Mary! runs February 9-21, 2027, at The Nationwide Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC. Tickets to the DC premiere of Oh, Mary! can be found now completely for season ticket holders and teams of 10 or extra. Particular person tickets will go on sale this fall. Join the Oh, Mary! presale, get season tickets, or e-book your group of 10 or extra on-line.
ABOUT J. HARRISON GHEE
J. HARRISON GHEE (Mary Todd Lincoln) (they/them) received the 2023 Tony Award for Finest Main Actor in a Musical, making historical past as the primary non-binary actor to be nominated and win on this class for his or her function as Daphne/Jerry in Some Like It Scorching, a job which additionally garnered them Grammy, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, in addition to Drama League and Chita Rivera Award nominations. Not too long ago J. starred on the planet premiere of Midnight within the Backyard of Good and Evil in addition to the Off-Broadway smash Saturday Church. Ghee was chosen by Billy Porter to star as Robyn/Kevin on the hit FOX sequence Accused and beforehand performed the sequence common of Kwame on Netflix’s Elevating Dion. On Broadway, they starred as Lola in Kinky Boots, created the function of Andre Mayhem in Mrs. Doubtfire, and have dazzled audiences in roles corresponding to Velma Kelly in Chicago and Johnny Hooker in The Sting, reverse Harry Connick, Jr. Ghee hopes that one thing they do or say reaches the guts of at the least one particular person to encourage them to dream huge and go full-out for these goals.
ABOUT THE NATIONAL THEATRE
Positioned on Pennsylvania Avenue, The Nationwide Theatre opened in 1835 and is the nation’s oldest venue nonetheless presenting touring Broadway.
Nederlander manages and applications the theater, together with the Broadway at The Nationwide sequence. The title “Nederlander” has been synonymous with nice leisure since 1912. Led by James L. Nederlander, President, Nederlander continues the custom of working historic theaters, in addition to producing and presenting one of the best in theatrical leisure and live performance occasions.
