Finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama! Cole Escola's Tony Award® nominated comedy explores the forgotten life and dreams of Mary Todd Lincoln.
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CRITIC’S PICK: "You have to admire the glee and cheek with which Escola mauls American history, drawing humor from the collision of high importance and low piffle, puncturing one while elevating the other."
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"the entire ensemble elevates very silly jokes into a work of art that keeps you riveted from start to finish"
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"I can’t remember the last time I saw a play that made me laugh, helplessly and loudly, as much as Oh, Mary! did—and my reaction was shared by the rest of the audience"
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“'Oh, Mary!' is directed by Sam Pinkleton at a breakneck speed that both allows room for the best jokes to harvest their share of laughter while never letting even the lesser gags land with a thud."
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"Oh, Mary! is a deliriously campy take on that well-known House Divided. A couple houses, in fact."
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"The puns, bits, and gags zip by in quick succession, and the audience laughs nearly the entire 90 minutes. It is unquestionably the funniest, gayest, campiest play Broadway has seen in years."
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"Every single one of Escola’s glugs, put-downs, punchlines, glares and loony line deliveries is a scream."
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“The coexistence of contradictory ideas quite literally defies description!”
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