{"id":378890,"date":"2026-10-21T21:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378890\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:36:23","slug":"ohio-new-musical-from-the-bengsons-sets-off-broadway-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378890\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio, New Musical From The Bengsons, Sets Off-Broadway Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and subsequent engagements\u00a0at the Bristol Old Vic and Young Vic Theatre, the new\u00a0musical Ohio, created and performed by the Obie-winning duo <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/the-bengsons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bengsons<\/a> (<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/my-joy-is-heavy-off-broadway-new-york-theatre-workshop-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Joy is Heavy<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/the-keep-going-songs-off-broadway-claire-tow-theater-2024\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Keep Going Songs<\/a>), will open in\u00a0January 2027\u00a0at Off-Broadway&#8217;s\u00a0Greenwich House Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Caitlin Sullivan (The Antiquities), Ohio will begin previews\u00a0January 17, 2027, prior to an official opening January 26 for a limited engagement through March 27.\u00a0Indie folk duo and married couple\u00a0Abigail and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/shaun-bengson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun Bengson<\/a> (The Bengsons)\u00a0star.<\/p>\n<p>The musical follows Shaun, who finds a new home in music after turning his back on the church.\u00a0Confronted now with acute degenerative hearing loss, he\u2019s making the choice to live joyfully in the face of life\u2019s many unanswerable questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The production will also feature\u00a0video design by Tony nominee <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/david-bengali-vault-0000124658\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Bengali<\/a> (Good Night, and Good Luck), lighting design by Bethany Gupwell (Ohio), scenic design by Cate McCrea (Calf Scramble), and sound design by Obie winner <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/nick-kourtides-designer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Kourtides<\/a> (Oratorio for Living Things). Alison Kopit (My Joy is Heavy) will serve\u00a0as access dramaturg. <\/p>\n<p>Ohio won The Scotsman\u2019s Fringe First Award and was a 2025 finalist for the Popcorn Writing Award.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio is\u00a0produced by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/francesca-moody-productions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francesca Moody Productions<\/a>, Mike &amp; Carlee Productions,\u00a0and Weathervane Productions.<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bengsonsohio.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" title=\"http:\/\/www.bengsonsohio.com\">BengsonsOhio.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and subsequent engagements\u00a0at the Bristol Old Vic and Young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-378890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378890","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=378890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}