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Jonathan Groff to Star in Broadway Solo Play About a School Shooting
Jonathan Groff will bring “The Amish Project” to Broadway in February.
It is a solo show about a school shooting.
The play is inspired by a massacre near Groff’s childhood home.
The event took place minutes from where Groff grew up.
That connection links the play’s subject to a place in the actor’s own past.
The show is scheduled to reach Broadway in February.
Jonathan Groff will star in the solo play The Amish Project on Broadway.
Performances are scheduled to begin on February 10, 2027, at the Broadhurst Theatre.
Jessica Dickey wrote the play, and Sarna Lapine will direct it.
The play explores a schoolhouse shooting in an Amish community and the community’s response of forgiveness and compassion.
The story is inspired by true events that happened near where Groff grew up.
- Who
- Jonathan Groff will star. Jessica Dickey wrote the play, and Sarna Lapine will direct it.
- What
- The Amish Project, a solo play about a schoolhouse shooting and its aftermath, is coming to Broadway.
- When
- Performances are scheduled to begin February 10, 2027.
- Where
- The Broadhurst Theatre in New York.
- Why
- The play explores forgiveness and compassion after a tragedy in an Amish community.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
The play premiered Off Broadway at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater after debuting at the New York International Fringe Festival and being developed at the Cherry Lane Theatre.
Producers announced that Jonathan Groff would star in the Broadway production.
Performances are scheduled to begin at the Broadhurst Theatre.
- Lead actor
- Jonathan Groff
- Playwright
- Jessica Dickey
- Director
- Sarna Lapine
- First performance
- February 10, 2027
- Theatre
- Broadhurst Theatre
- Past Off-Broadway premiere
- Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 2009
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What people are saying
Twenty years ago this month, an unimaginable tragedy happened in a one room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Jessica Dickey wrote an astounding work of art in response.
I wrote The Amish Project in the heartbreak of my twenties, grappling with how to make a meaningful life as an artist in a world capable of such violence.
We are honored to bring Jessica Dickey’s stirring and luminous play to Broadway, under the direction of the visionary Sarna Lapine.