Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff will return to Broadway this winter in The Amish Venture, a one-woman play written by Jessica Dickey and directed by Sarna Lapine. Performances start Wednesday, February 10, 2027 on the Broadhurst Theatre.
Producers Robert Ahrens and Tom Kirdahy introduced the collection and its star immediately. The official opening night time has not but been introduced and the design staff will quickly.
Coming from two very profitable Broadway tasks – Merry we experience And Simply in time – Groff will now go solo The Amish Venturea chunk described by the manufacturing as “a deeply shifting solo piece concerning the astonishing energy of compassion within the face of unimaginable loss.”
The synopsis: “When tragedy shatters a close-knit Amish neighborhood, what follows is a unprecedented act of grace that challenges every little thing we predict we learn about forgiveness. Impressed by true occasions that came about simply minutes from the place Groff grew up, The Amish Venture is an intimate portrait of a spot and a neighborhood channeled via a single artist. Written by famend playwright Jessica Dickey (The Rembrandt, The Convent) and directed by Sarna Lapine (Name me Izzy, Sunday on the park with George), this exceptional story invitations us to replicate on how, even within the darkest hours, our frequent humanity endures.
Groff stated: “Twenty years in the past this month, an unimaginable tragedy occurred in a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Jessica Dickey wrote an astonishing murals in response. Sarna Lapine despatched me The Amish Venture Final yr, I used to be shocked by the urgency and highly effective poetry of Jessica’s writing as she dove headfirst into the numerous aftershocks of this horrific occasion and explored the concept that typically essentially the most radical human act is forgiveness. I’m deeply grateful to carry Jessica’s play to Broadway alongside Sarna and this unimaginable staff.
The Amish Venture debuted to essential acclaim on the New York Worldwide Fringe Pageant and was developed on the Cherry Lane Theater earlier than premiering Off Broadway on the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2009. It has since develop into Dickey’s most produced play, with productions on the Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis), Milwaukee Rep, American Theater Firm (Chicago), and Metropolis Theater (Pittsburgh), amongst others in theaters around the globe.
Producers Ahrens and Kirdahy stated in a press release: “We’re honored to carry Jessica Dickey’s shifting and luminous play to Broadway, beneath the route of the visionary Sarna Lapine. There may be nothing like experiencing the singular Jonathan Groff reside, and his humanity, generosity and reward for storytelling make this a deeply transporting night of theater that we’re proud to share with audiences.”
The playwright Dickey stated: “I wrote The Amish Venture within the grief of my twenties, questioning how you can make sense of my life as an artist in a world able to such violence. The play launched my writing profession and altered my life. Returning to it now, all these years later, when its questions nonetheless appear so pressing, is deeply shifting. And to take action alongside Jonathan Groff, whose private connection to this story is matched solely by his astonishing expertise, and the extraordinary Sarna Lapine, with the unwavering belief and care of Robert Ahrens and Tom Kirdahy, is a present I may by no means have imagined. I can not look forward to Broadway audiences to see it: I will be the playwright within the background, laughing and crying.
Director Lapine stated: “Once I first learn Jessie’s play, I used to be blown away. She channeled one thing extraordinary a couple of neighborhood, a neighborhood in mourning, a neighborhood in dialog. It is a play that stays with you for days, weeks, months, years after you sit down with it. Just like the body of a well-built one-room schoolhouse, the writing is exact, easy and robust, illuminating resilience within the face of fragility, and asks how you can forgive the unforgivable?