Maya Rudolph Sets Broadway Debut In ‘Oh, Mary!’

Six-time Emmy winner Maya Rudolph will make her Broadway debut this spring in Cole Escola’s hit comedy Oh, Mary! She’ll play the title character, Mary Todd Lincoln.

Rudolph (Saturday Night Live, Bridesmaids) will begin a limited eight-week engagement at the Lyceum Theatre on Tuesday, April 28, (through June 20). The casting was announced today by producers Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia.

“Ever since I was a little girl I have dreamed of being Cole Escola,” said 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.”

Additionally, the production announced that the Broadway production will extend through January 3, 2027, running alongside the West End production, now extended through July 18, 2026, at the Trafalgar Theatre in London, and the North American tour, which begins in Hartford, Connecticut, in September.

Rudolph will be the latest in a growing roster of Broadway Marys, a list that began with playwright Escola and has included Jinkx Monsoon, Jane Krakowski, Tituss Burgess, Betty Gilpin, and Hannah Solow. The current Mary is John Cameron Mitchell, whose engagement runs through April 26.

Directed by 2025 Tony Award winner Sam Pinkleton, Oh, Mary! opened on Broadway on July 11, 2024, and has since broken its own box office record 12 times to become the first show of the 2024-25 Broadway season to recoup its investment.