Cole Escola has revealed their picks for an Oh, Mary! film adaptation, including Linda Hunt, Cherry Jones, and Miss Piggy doing Mary Todd Lincoln in a Muppets version.

Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln in 'Oh, Mary!' In a review, Entertainment Weekly hailed the production as the "funniest play on Broadway" amid an otherwise "already-dysfunctional" political ...

Cole Escola is a star and writer of “Oh, Mary!” — a reimagining of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln.

The show imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a hard-drinking, boisterous, wannabe cabaret star, beleaguered by her marriage to what Escola imagines is an obviously gay president.

The campy revisionist one-act play about first lady Mary Todd Lincoln took Broadway by storm last year.

Actor Cole Escola won a coveted 2025 Tony Award Sunday for the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in “Oh Mary!” played in drag. Escola, a biological male, said he was “non-binary” in 2022 ...

Escola, the deranged genius behind "Oh, Mary!", won best leading actor in a play for their inspired turn as first lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

Cole Escola's 'Oh, Mary!' is the front-runner in the Tony Award race for best play. But in one of the strongest playwriting categories in years, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' 'Purpose' deserves to win.

Mary Todd Lincoln as a cabaret star? How Cole Escola's 'stupid' dream came true The Broadway comedy Oh, Mary! is an intentionally ridiculous reimagining of first lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

Escola began to imagine a "second chapter" for Mary Todd Lincoln, an idea that evolved slowly over 12 years. In 2024, Oh, Mary!, starring Escola in the title role, debuted off-Broadway.

Escola gives the former first lady a wild second act in the Tony-nominated play Oh, Mary! "This play is about a woman with a dream that no one around her understands," Escola says.