{"id":195584,"date":"2026-04-13T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195584\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:18:07","slug":"the-gorgeous-nothings-musical-come-from-away-concert-more-will-bow-off-broadway-at-pac-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195584\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gorgeous Nothings Musical, Come From Away Concert, More Will Bow Off-Broadway at PAC NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Off-Broadway’s Perelman Performing Arts Center has revealed a 2026-2027 season that includes bows of the\u00a0new musical\u00a0The Gorgeous Nothings, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s world premiere “theatrical storm of memory, myth, and survival” (per press notes)\u00a0The Unskinable, a concert performance of Broadway’s\u00a0Come From Away<\/a>, a holiday return of Jack Thorne<\/a>‘s\u00a0A Christmas Carol, and more.<\/p>\n

The Off-Broadway venue’s season begins with the previously announced world premiere of Jennifer Nettles<\/a>‘ musical Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo, performing June 28-July 26.<\/p>\n

The Gorgeous Nothings, conceived and written by Travis Lee Russ, tells the story of the so-called “Fag Ward” at the Men’s Penitentiary on NYC’s Welfare Island, a 1930s jail for queer people. The jukebox musical gets its score from the Great American Songbook (with Dan Schlosberg providing arrangements and orchestrations and Alejandro Senior<\/a> penning arrangements), centering on six inmates whose stories unfold in campy numbers at the ward’s annual Christmas pageant.\u00a0Performances will run February 16-March 14, 2027, with Danny Mefford<\/a> (The 25th Annual Putnam County\u00a0Spelling Bee)\u00a0directing and choreographing. PAC NYC is producing in collaboration with Making Gay History and Baryshnikov Arts Center.<\/p>\n

This fall,\u00a0Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s\u00a0Come From Away will get a free, one-night-only concert performance September 13, featuring a cast of alum from the musical’s Broadway and national touring casts. The venue is also bringing back Jack Thorne’s\u00a0A Christmas Carol, which played a holiday run at the company in 2025. This year’s iteration will perform November 20, 2026-January 3, 2027, bringing back Matthew Warchus<\/a>‘ production following its London premiere and 2019 Broadway bow.<\/p>\n

Moving into 2027, the company will host the first performances from its Democracy Cycle Festival, an ongoing commission of 25 works across performance genres exploring themes on the nature, practice, and experience of democracy. Performing January 16-23, 2027, the first works to get a public showcase from the commissions are Baye and Asa’s dance work\u00a0Baye & Asa’s At the Altar and\u00a0Ang\u00e9lica N\u00e9gron’s\u00a0The Puerto Rico Experiment, written with Bal\u00fan and Roomful of Teeth.<\/p>\n

Cowhig’s\u00a0The Unsinkable will explore the six Chinese seamen who survived the infamous sinking of the Titanic only to be erased from the narrative of the ship’s survivors. Aya Ogawa<\/a> will direct, with performances running February 10-March 7, 2027.<\/p>\n

For a full schedule of offerings and tickets, visit PACNYC.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Off-Broadway’s Perelman Performing Arts Center has revealed a 2026-2027 season that includes bows of the\u00a0new musical\u00a0The Gorgeous Nothings,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-195584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}