Off-Broadway NewsOff-Broadway's Marie It's Time Cancels Performances and Extends Run
A positive COVID test within the company has affected the play's run at HERE's Dorothy B. Williams Theatre.
By
Leah Putnam
September 13, 2022
Performances of Julia Jarcho’s Marie It’s Time havebeencanceled through September 17 due to a positive COVID test within the company.
The production at HERE’s Dorothy B. Williams Theatre will resume September 21. The Off-Broadway run, originally scheduled through September 24, has been extended through October 1.
Created and produced by Obie-winning downtown company Minor Theater, Marie It's Time began previews September 7 ahead of its September 9 opening night.
Drawing inspiration from Georg Büchner’s 1913 play Woyzeck, Jarcho performs in her own work for the first time. She stars alongside Jennifer Seastone in the fight for the role of Büchner’s lead Marie, joined in the “fucked-up mixtape about love, motherhood, and violence” by Kedian Keohan as Major.
Directed by Ásta Bennie Hostetter, the show features original music composition by Jarcho and Jeff Aaron Bryant, sound design by Ben Williams and Elliot Yokum, set design by Meredith Ries, costume design by Hahnji Jang, and lighting design by Ebony Burton.
Part interactive game show, part memoir, the Off-Broadway show relies heavily on audience participation to bring iconic moments in television history to life.
The show is an autobiographical stand-up comedy show exploring Ricky Sim's decision to come out as gay to his terminally ill Chinese-Malaysian immigrant mother.
The piece, which previously enjoyed sold-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, London's Soho Theatre, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, and more, will return to Soho Playhouse.