Oh, Maya! Maya Rudolph Will Join Oh, Mary! on Broadway

The six-time Emmy winner will make her Broadway debut in the Cole Escola comedy in April.

March 12, 2026 By Logan Culwell-Block

Maya may I! Six-time Emmy-winning SNL star Maya Rudolph will be Broadway's next title star in Oh, Mary! at the Lyceum Theatre, where the Cole Escola comedy continues its run. Rudolph will join the company as Mary beginning April 28, playing a limited eight-week engagement through June 20.

“Ever since I was a little girl, I have dreamed of being Cole Escola,” says Rudolph in a statement. “Oh, Mary! is the funniest play I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of plays, you’d be surprised. It’s such an honor to play the role of Mary, especially after so many iconic Marys have come before me. So making my Broadway debut in the role of a lifetime—as a miserable, suffocated, alcoholic woman—is a real dream come true.”

The show is now selling tickets through January 3, 2027. A West End run at the Trafalgar Theatre is currently scheduled through July 18, and a North American national tour is set to launch from Hartford, Connecticut, in September.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch creator and original star John Cameron Mitchell is currently leading the cast as Mary opposite John-Andrew Morrison (A Strange Loop) as Mary's Husband, Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) as Mary's Teacher, Jenn Harris as Mary's Chaperone, and Tony Macht as Mary's Husband's Assistant. The play's understudies are Hannah Solow, Martin Landry, and Julian Manjerico.

Escola's comedy centers on Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. In Escola's demented take (or as press notes put it, "through the lens of an idiot"), Mary Todd becomes a madcap, cabaret-obsessed alcoholic.

The piece premiered at Off-Broadway's Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2024 in a run that was extended three times. It then transferred to Broadway later that year, where it's been breaking box-office records at the Lyceum Theatre; it became the first show in the theatre’s 121-year history to gross more than $1,000,000 in a single week.

The show earned two 2025 Tony Awards: Lead Actor in a Play for Escola and Director of a Play for Sam Pinkleton.

READ: Director Sam Pinkleton on the Art of Recasting Oh, Mary!

Oh, Mary's creative team includes 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 production stage manager and assistant stage manager, respectively.