{"id":367175,"date":"2026-10-07T20:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367175\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:36:46","slug":"a-morning-with-ernie-bushmiller-will-play-brooklyns-mark-odonnell-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367175\/","title":{"rendered":"A Morning With Ernie Bushmiller Will Play Brooklyn’s Mark O’Donnell Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller, a\u00a0new play about the cartoonist behind the classic comic strip Nancy, will play six performances\u00a0at\u00a0The Mark O’Donnell<\/a> Theater at the Entertainment Community Arts Center\u00a0in\u00a0Brooklyn beginning October 8.<\/p>\n

Written by and starring veteran TV\u00a0writer Tom Gammill (Seinfeld, The Simpsons) and directed by filmmaker Owen Kline (Funny Pages), the 80-minute one-act explores the life, work, and unlikely legacy of cartoonist Bushmiller.<\/p>\n

The production also features original songs by Gammill and Peter Lurye and co-stars actress and mimic Lauren Servideo in multiple roles.<\/p>\n

Set in 1976, A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller finds the creator of the once wildly popular Nancy\u00a0confronting a world that seems to be moving past him.\u00a0His comic soul-searching unfolds amid lively curmudgeonly observations, projected illustrations, video fantasies, and playful special effects.<\/p>\n

The play\u00a0is produced by identical twin brothers and comic aficionados Steve O’Donnell and the late Mark O’Donnell.<\/p>\n

Mark O\u2019Donnell won the 2003 Tony Award for co-writing the book of the hit musical Hairspray<\/a>. Steve O\u2019Donnell is an Emmy-winning TV\u00a0writer whose credits include work with David Letterman and Chris Rock<\/a>. Mark O\u2019Donnell died in 2012, and The Mark O\u2019Donnell Theater is named in his memory.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a>\u00a0for tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Morning with Ernie Bushmiller, a\u00a0new play about the cartoonist behind the classic comic strip Nancy, will play…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-367175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367175","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=367175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}