John Cameron Mitchell, currently starring in the title role of Broadway’s Oh, Mary! through April 26, will offer an evening at New York’s The Town Hall this summer.
John Cameron Mitchell & Friends will play the famed Manhattan venue June 26 at 7 PM, produced by ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann. The Pride concert will feature special guests to be announced.
Mitchell will also be joined by musical director Justin Craig,
keyboardist Matthew Katz-Bohen, and vocalist Shannon Conley with lighting design by Jojo Franjoine and visuals
by Michael Zumbrun.
The evening of songs and stories will celebrate 25 years
of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 20 years of Shortbus,
deep cuts from David Bowie, and “the boundless and unsinkable
imagination of queer counter-culture,” according to press notes.
Mitchell wrote, directed, and starred in the musical and film Hedwig and the Angry Inch,
for which he won two Tony Awards, Best Director at the 2001 Sundance
Film Festival, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor. He directed
the films Shortbus (2006); Rabbit Hole (2010, Best Actress Oscar nomination for Nicole Kidman); and How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) starring Kidman and Elle Fanning. On Broadway, he’s also starred in The Secret Garden, Big River, and Six Degrees of Separation. His TV credits include Girls, Shrill, The Good Fight, The Sandman, Yellowjackets, City on Fire, and Joe vs
Carole. His fictional podcast series are Anthem: Homunculus, starring Glenn Close and Cynthia Erivo; and Cancellation Island,
starring Holly Hunter. He is developing a play about anti-Nazi artist
Claude Cahun, feature films based on the lives of Allen Ginsberg and
AIDS activist Peter Staley, and a memoir entitled A Heart Held Outside the Body.
Tickets are available at TheTownHall.org.