It was announced that Award-winning actress, recording artist, and drag queen Jinkx Monsoon, will star in Cole Escola’s Oh, Mary! beginning Monday, August 4, 2025, and play a limited eight-week engagement through Saturday, September 27. Jinkx Monsoon joined TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager and guest co-host Michelle Buteau to announce that she will be taking over the role of Mary Todd Lincoln at the Lyceum Theatre.
Oh, Mary! is a dark comedy about a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in this 80-minute one-act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln, through the lens of an idiot (playwright Cole Escola).